IT Manufacturing Data Engineer

At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals!

As a global leader in animal health, we are dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets.

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We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success.

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Your Role: IT Manufacturing Data Engineer
 

As a Manufacturing Data Engineer at Elanco, you will be the analytical engine driving operational excellence across our production sites.  

 

Reporting to the Engineering team, you will specialize in transforming production data into insights that improve our Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE).  

 

This role is perfect for a data-driven individual who is passionate about finding actionable insights within complex manufacturing data to increase efficiency, improve product yield, and enhance quality and compliance. 

 

This includes four strategic priorities: 

 

Pipeline Acceleration: Optimize the search and approval of high impact medicines with a focus on speed, cost and precision. 

Manufacturing Excellence: Improve the efficiency, quality and consistency of core manufacturing processes, specifically execution and equipment effectiveness. 

Sales Effectiveness: Simplify the process to find, trust and consume relevant customer insights that drive sales growth and improved engagement. 

Productivity: Expand operating margin through efficiency by systematically reducing our operating expenses across the company, improving profitability. 

 

Your Responsibilities:  


* OEE Analysis & Reporting: Be responsible for the process of collecting, analyzing, and reporting on OEE metrics (Availability, Performance, Quality) for critical production lines.

You will develop and maintain dashboards and reports that provide clear, timely visibility into equipment performance for the operations teams. 



* Identify Improvement Opportunities: Analyze manufacturing data from systems like MES, SCADA, and Data Historians to identify the primary causes of production losses, such as equipment downtime, slow cycle times, and yield loss. 



* Support Data-Driven Decisions: Translate complex datasets into clear, actionable insights and recommendations.

Your analysis will help guide the continuous improvement efforts of our manufacturing and engineering teams. 



* Support Root Cause Analysis: Provide data and analytical...