Advisor - Process Safety Management, GHSE

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The Advisor, Process Safety is a member of the HSE – Global Manufacturing function at Lilly, facilitating enterprise-wide process safety governance, technical leadership, strategic direction and advisory expertise for the company’s Process Safety Management (PSM) program across Lilly’s global manufacturing network.

Operating from the center, this role coordinates PSM program delivery, facilitates governance, advises site PSM professionals and senior leaders, and partners with Engineering Tech Center (ETC) and Global Facilities Delivery (GFD) to ensure compliance and drive capability development, and risk reduction across all Lilly manufacturing sites.

The role represents Lilly at external industry bodies (ACC, EPSC, CCPS), monitors evolving regulatory and best-practice requirements, and translates these into enterprise standards and guidance for the global manufacturing network.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate enterprise-wide PSM governance: facilitate the PSM Board of Directors, facilitate monthly Technology Team meetings, coordinate PSM Conferences and workshops, and report PSM performance metrics to senior leadership. • Manage global requirements and associated metrics to drive continuous improvement in PSM performance and process safety risk reduction (HSE-STD-500 and assigned Engineering Design Standards). Monitors external regulatory changes and ensure standards are updated as appropriate. • Serve as a technical expert for process safety, provide oversight and technical input to PSM event investigations, applicability evaluations, change reviews, and PHR evaluations to ensure robust outcomes and broad learning. • Drive standardization of agreed PSM program elements, tools, and PSM software platforms across all Lilly manufacturing sites; build GHSE–ETC linkage to advance process safety engineering standardization. Drives replication of best practices and controls through standardization of requirements. • Develops training strategy for key PSM roles across the global manufacturing network; develop and maintain centrally owned PSM training content in partnership with the Chemical Hazards Lab (CHL), ETC and sites; identify and deploy external professional training on PSM topics as appropriate. • Leads development of strategy to continuously improve PSM; owns PSM initiative list and tracks implementation. • Supports site HSE Leaders for staff PSM development. Provide leadership to PSM Technical Team members to improve proficiencies and conformance to standards, and support development of the PSM roadmap. Coaches PSM professionals at new and growing sites; fosters a cross-site collaboration and lessons-learned sharing culture. • Serves as a technical expert for facility design reviews and engineering control recommendations. Leads PSM integration into GFD capital projects; supports new site start-ups until site PSM resources are established. • Maintains a strong partnership with the Engineering Technical Center (ETC) and establishes/maintains strong external linkages (ACC, EPSC and CCPS) to drive internal innovation and strategy.