diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 6ff53bb..d2c5f68 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -11,6 +11,15 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y build-essential git
 COPY requirements/core.txt requirements/core.txt
 RUN pip3 install -r requirements/core.txt
 
+# This is below the preceding layer to prevent Docker from rebuilding the
+# previous layer (forcing a reload of dependencies) whenever the
+# status of a local service library changes
+ARG service_lib_dir=NO_SUCH_DIR
+
+# Install a local harmony-service-lib-py if we have one
+COPY deps ./deps/
+RUN if [ -d deps/${service_lib_dir} ]; then echo "Installing from local copy of harmony-service-lib"; pip install -e deps/${service_lib_dir}; fi
+
 COPY . .
 
 ENTRYPOINT ["python3", "-m", "harmony_netcdf_to_zarr"]
diff --git a/Dockerfile.local-service-lib b/Dockerfile.local-service-lib
deleted file mode 100644
index a4b5c93..0000000
--- a/Dockerfile.local-service-lib
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-FROM harmonyservices/netcdf-to-zarr:latest
-
-ARG LOCAL_SVCLIB
-
-ADD ${LOCAL_SVCLIB} /opt/harmony-service-lib-py
-RUN pip install --user /opt/harmony-service-lib-py/*.whl
diff --git a/bin/build-image b/bin/build-image
index cc1e7dc..609487e 100755
--- a/bin/build-image
+++ b/bin/build-image
@@ -1,33 +1,28 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 
 set -e
 
+# source the .env file if it exists
+[[ -f .env ]] && source .env
+
 image="harmonyservices/netcdf-to-zarr"
 tag=${1:-latest}
 
-# source the .env file if it exists
-[[ -f .env ]] && source .env
-DOCKER_ARGS=""
-if [ -n "$DIND" ]; then
-   DOCKER_ARGS="-H ${DOCKER_DAEMON_ADDR}"
+if [ -d "deps" ]; then
+  rm -rf deps
 fi
+mkdir deps
 
-# NOTE: We use the `host` network mode so we can have access to the
-# host VPN connection used for Nexus access.
-
-docker $DOCKER_ARGS build --network host -t ${image}:${tag} .
+SERVICE_LIB_DIR="NO_SUCH_DIR"
+if [ -d "$LOCAL_SVCLIB_DIR" ]; then
+  echo "Using local copy of harmony-service-lib"
+  SERVICE_LIB_DIR=$(basename $LOCAL_SVCLIB_DIR)
+  cp -R $LOCAL_SVCLIB_DIR deps/
+fi
 
-if [[ ! -z "${LOCAL_SVCLIB_DIR}" ]]
-then
-  LOCAL_SVCLIB=deps/harmony-service-lib
-  mkdir -p "${LOCAL_SVCLIB}"
-  pushd "${LOCAL_SVCLIB_DIR}"
-  make build
-  popd
-  mv "${LOCAL_SVCLIB_DIR}"/dist/* "${LOCAL_SVCLIB}"
-  docker $DOCKER_ARGS build -f Dockerfile.local-service-lib \
-    --build-arg LOCAL_SVCLIB=${LOCAL_SVCLIB} \
-    --network host \
-    -t ${image}:${tag} .
-  rm -r ${LOCAL_SVCLIB}
+# If we're running Docker in Docker (DIND) then the docker daemon is on the host
+if [ -n "$DIND" ]; then
+  docker -H $DOCKER_DAEMON_ADDR build --build-arg service_lib_dir="$SERVICE_LIB_DIR" -t ${image}:${ag} .
+else
+  docker build --build-arg service_lib_dir="$SERVICE_LIB_DIR" --network host -t ${image}:${tag} .
 fi