Senior Specialist - Upstream Operations Technician

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. We’re driven by our vision of ‘Food and Companionship Enriching Life’ and our approach to sustainability – the Elanco Healthy Purpose™ – to advance the health of animals, people, the planet and our enterprise.

At Elanco, we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success. Here, you’ll be part of a company that values and champions new ways of thinking, work with dynamic individuals, and acquire new skills and experiences that will propel your career to new heights.

Making animals’ lives better makes life better – join our team today!

Your Role: Senior Specialist - Upstream Operations Technician

The Upstream OpTech is technical process leader on the Upstream operations team responsible for manufacturing execution, changeover, and production control. The role is dedicated to the execution and oversight of cellular expansion from benchtop through production bioreactor processes.

Your Responsibilities:

• Executes the operation with team serving as process lead, coach, trainer, and responsible party.

• Performs and verifies Maintenance, process setup, troubleshooting, change over, process intervention.

• Serve as the operations representative and subject matter expert for cross-functional process support team.

• Real-time problem solving, process intervention, and technical experiment delivery, and continuous improvement.

• Ensure process documentation is prepared and completed with accuracy and concurrence.

What You Need to Succeed (minimum qualifications):

• Education: High School Diploma / GED

• Experience: minimum of 3 years experience with cellular growth/expansion processes.

What will give you a competitive edge (preferred qualifications):

• Production scale filtration

• Formal Root Cause Investigation training

• Fermentation

• Proficiency with SAP

• GMP manufacturing

• Aseptic experience

Additional Information:

• Travel: Minimal

• Location: Elanco Animal Health Elwood, KS

• Shift: 12 hour Day shift 5a-5:15p 2 week rotation (M,T,F,Sa,Su,W,R)

  • This role currently operates on an 8-hour shift schedule. Starting in July 2025, the position will transition to the 12-hour shift schedule stated above.

  • Please note that weekend work will have a 4% premium and work outside of your shift hours will have 10% premium.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown underrecognized groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Elanco we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive work environment. If you think you might be a good fit for a role but don't necessarily meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply. You may be the right candidate for this role or other roles!

Elanco Benefits and Perks:

We offer a comprehensive benefits package focusing on financial, physical, and mental well-being while encouraging our employees to pursue our purpose! Some highlights include:

• 8-week parental leave

• 9 Employee Resource Groups

• Annual bonus offering

• Up to 6% 401K matching

Elanco is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status