Engineer / Project Manager
About The Position
The Engineering / Project Manager provides strategic and hands-on leadership for the site's engineering functions, including Maintenance, Manufacturing Engineering, Tool Shop, Facilities, Utilities, and Capital Projects. The role drives equipment reliability, operational excellence, continuous improvement, and capital project execution while ensuring compliance with safety, quality, regulatory, and company standards. Working closely with cross-functional teams, the Engineering / Project Manager develops and executes engineering strategies to improve asset performance, support manufacturing operations, and achieve business objectives. The role also builds and leads a high-performing engineering organization focused on innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Chemical, or Manufacturing Engineering.
- 10–15 years of engineering experience in industrial manufacturing settings.
- At least 5 years of demonstrated success in an engineering leadership role within manufacturing.
- Proven experience managing Maintenance, Engineering, Facilities, and Engineering Projects.
- Demonstrated success managing capital investment projects from concept through commissioning.
- Experience in pharmaceutical, medical device, or other regulated manufacturing environments.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and management skills.
- Ability to lead teams of 5–10 technical personnel and technical organizations of at least 20–30 people.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute the site's engineering strategy in alignment with business objectives, operational priorities, and long-term growth plans.
- Lead, coach, and develop the Engineering organization, including Maintenance, Manufacturing Engineering, Tool Shop, Facilities, and Utilities, fostering accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Establish and improve preventive, predictive, and reliability-centered maintenance programs to maximize equipment availability, reliability, and Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE).
- Lead root cause investigations and implement sustainable corrective actions and engineering best practices to eliminate recurring equipment issues.
- Ensure engineering services support production, quality, safety, and customer requirements while maintaining equipment performance and asset reliability.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives in process optimization, automation, digital manufacturing, energy efficiency, waste reduction, and operational excellence.
- Manage capital projects from concept through design, procurement, installation, commissioning, qualification, and operational handover, ensuring safe, timely, and on-budget delivery.
- Develop engineering justifications, business cases, capital investment proposals, and project budgets in support of site strategy.
- Collaborate with Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, EHS, and Global Engineering to deliver engineering initiatives and business support.
- Ensure engineering activities comply with applicable GMP, regulatory, quality, safety, and company standards.
- Promote a proactive safety culture by ensuring engineering operations meet EHS requirements and encouraging safe work practices.
Benefits
- Development opportunities with training and assignments in a global environment.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
