Project Manager (Capital Projects)

Summary:                      

Our client is a Biopharmaceutical company based in South Dublin, looking for a Project Manager.  The successful candidate will support the current expansion projects being executed on site through design, build/install, CQV to handover to operations. The suitable person will typically have prior related project engineering experience ideally in the pharmaceutical industry.

Responsibilities:

• Project execution will focus on safety, schedule, and budget adherence while complying with good engineering practices, company policies, regulations and codes.
• Accountable for meeting key project deliverables for, equipment management and turnover management across the projects.
• Accountable for ensuring projects are compliant with good engineering practices, company policies, regulations and codes.
• Liaise with Engineering/EHS/Procurement to ensure all are aligned and support project deliverables.
• Planning and Scheduling, uses planning tools to hold a complex project on schedule and coordinate parallel activities. Coordinate with facilities, EHS, QA, etc.
• Risk Management, identifies and categorizes project risks according to impact on scope, budget and schedule.
• Generates action plans to mitigate risks.
• Manage EPCM during design, FATs and delivery to site for all small scale equipment from award.
• Coordinate with CMT to align on equipment installation requirements.
• Coordinate client support for Mechanical Completion and Turnover process.
• Collate all equipment and trade information to support engineering deliverables.
• Manage start-up of all equipment and systems through to handover to Operations.
• Manage and execute the operational readiness phase of each building to ensure on time handover of operations to end users.
• Presentations and reporting out on progress of projects to stakeholder as required.
• Coordinate engineering, EHS and CQV support to support handover of buildings
• Complete Project Close-out as per Stage Gate process.
• Managing vendors for work on site ensuring compliance with safety and permitting requirements for all on site activities.
• May be required to perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications & Experience:

• A degree in Chemical/Mechanical/Process Engineering.
• 5 years+ in a similar role.
• Demonstrable skills that can be applied to effectively manage and execute projects from design to completion.
• Familiar with project life-cycle process.
• Demonstrated understanding of the project management process, scheduling, design development, implementation, project closeout.
• Experience of executing and/or managing equipment and process design through to construction.
• Demonstrated experience and ability to effectively manage stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence others.
• Strong computer MS Office skills (PP, Word, Excel, Project etc.).
• Demonstrable people management skills or experience working with cross functional project teams.
• Proactive and accountable person with a demonstrable willingness to learn.
• Demonstrable experience of managing a cross functional team to deliver projects is desirable.
• Turnover experience is desirable.