CAPITAL PROJECT MANAGER

Job Summary

The Project Manager Capital is responsible for the planning, design, and implementation of capital projects. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for and planning, design, and implementation of capital projects for Mt. Vernon site.
• Ensures effective coordination of all the parallel activities related to each project, and achieves project schedule
• through minimal unanticipated schedule disruptions.  Allocates resources and manages activities to ensure that project
• objectives are met.
• Seeks to understand specific customer and stakeholder requirements.  Works across organizational and functional
• boundaries to ensure that customers, peers, and support groups have an understanding of the scope and deliverables
• for all projects.
• Possesses broad knowledge of the functional requirements of pharmaceutical facilities and engineering best practices,
• ensuring that appropriate internal and external resources are incorporated into the project design and execution.
• Ensures that the construction project and the finished facility are compliant with all applicable safety, regulatory, legal,
• and company requirements.
• Works with departmental clients to develop scope, cost, and schedule for capital projects.  Develops justification and
• completes documentation required to obtain project approval. 
• Communicates and collaborates with AE firms, contractors, vendors, and internal groups to implement construction,
• qualification, and startup of projects. 
• Achieves cost-effective, functional outcomes through the use of design guidelines and standards, value engineering, life
• cycle costing, and engineering best practices.
• Ensures that projects are completed on time, within budget, and in compliance with the approved scope. 
• Works in partnership with site SHE to ensure project engineering activities comply with environmental and safety
• regulatory standards.
• Maintains a safe work environment by ensuring that project personnel follow site SHE policies and procedures.
• Expertise on the change control process.Support Facilitation of the Change Control process for Capital Projects

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree required preferably in Engineering, or other related technical discipline.  
• Experience in conceptual development, project management (planning and scheduling projects), design,and implementation of major capital projects. 
• Experience in the pharmaceutical industry and related regulatory, engineering, and construction techniques. 
• Professional certifications.
• Experience working with regulatory agencies such as Hands-on experience in the negotiation and management of contracts and agreements with
• engineering contractors, vendors, regulatory, and government agencies.
• Knowledge and understanding of validation and qualification principles, project management, and change control principles.
• Ability to understand and utilize financial analyses to make good decisions in a manufacturing environment. 
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills are essential. 
• Experience in developing and introducing an initiative and gaining subsequent buy-in and support from different levels within the organization.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate and
• collaborate at a variety of levels with customers, vendors, equipment suppliers, and operations staff.
• Highly proficient in Microsoft applications including
• Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project.