Senior Project Manager Building & Infrastructure (m/f/d) / Engineering

Fresenius; Bad Homburg vor der Höhe; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA in Germany seeks a Senior Project Manager Building & Infrastructure Projects to lead complex technical building, infrastructure, laboratory and production projects within Group Real Estate Management - Engineering.

You will drive end-to-end delivery across all project phases, coordinating architects, engineers and contractors in a regulated, international environment.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in process engineering, civil engineering, architecture, building technology, or equivalent.
• At least ten years of experience in project management of technical projects.
• Strong experience as owner’s representative or client-side PM.
• Knowledge of approval planning, design, construction, commissioning and handover in regulated GxP areas.
• Cost, deadline, risk, claim and change management expertise.
• Broad understanding of building equipment and operability.
• Experience managing external planners, engineering firms, and construction partners.
• Excellent German and English language skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage technically oriented building, infrastructure, laboratory and production-related projects as owner’s representative from requirements clarification to handover.
• Compile and clarify project requirements from business units, location organisations, transaction management and facility management.
• Build resilient project set-ups with scope, budget, schedule, roles, responsibilities and reporting logic.
• Lead projects through approval, planning, procurement, construction, commissioning and handover.
• Coordinate architects, engineers, service providers, project managers, contractors and specialists.
• Ensure costs, deadlines, quality, scope, compliance, functionality, and operability.
• Maintain schedules, budget, risk registers and change management as central control instruments.
• Prepare status reports and steering documents and escalation templates.
• Oversee orderly mechanical completion, acceptance, and operator handover.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Project management

GxP/regulatory understanding

Cross-functional coordination

German language proficiency

English language proficiency

Education

Master’s degree in process engineering / civil engineering / architecture / building technology

Tools

MS Project

Job description

As a Senior Project Manager Building & Infrastructure Projects (m/f/d), you will be responsible for the management of demanding technical building, infrastructure, laboratory and production-related projects within Group Real Estate Management - Engineering. You will ensure structured preparation, professional management and successful implementation across all project phases. In this key role, you will combine technical understanding, project management expertise and stakeholder orientation in an international and regulated environment.

Your responsibilities:

• Managing technically oriented building, infrastructure, laboratory and production-related projects as owner’s representative from requirements clarification to handover

• Compilation and clarification of project requirements from business units, location organisations, transaction management, facility management and strategic real estate requirements in a structured manner

• Build resilient project set-ups with scope, budget, schedule, roles, responsibilities, decision‑making paths, escalation paths, and reporting logic

• Professionally manage projects through approval, planning, procurement, construction, commissioning support and handover

• Coordinating and managing architects, specialist planners, engineering service providers, project managers, construction partners, general contractors and technical specialists

• Ensure costs, deadlines, quality, scope, compliance, technical functionality, sustainability and operator requirements

• Establish and maintain schedules, budget and forecast structures, risk and opportunity registers as well as change management as central project control instruments

• Prepare status reports, management updates, steering committee documents as well as decision and escalation templates

• Ensure orderly mechanical completion, acceptance, claims management, commissioning, documentation and operator handover

• Further develop standards, methods, templates, quality gates and lessons learned for Building & Infrastructure Projects

Your qualifications:

• Master’s degree in the field of process engineering, civil engineering, architecture, building technology or a comparable qualification

• At least ten years of experience in project management of technical projects, ideally in pharmaceutical, R&D, life science, building infrastructure or comparable regulated environments

• Strong experience as an owner's representative or client-side project manager

• Very good understanding of approval planning, design & construction, commissioning and handover processes in regulated GxP areas

• Solid competence in cost, deadline, risk, claim and change management

• Broad understanding of technical building equipment, infrastructure, user requirements and operability

• Experience in managing external planners, engineering companies, consultants, construction partners and technical service providers

• Strong management competence for complex interfaces between business, sites, operating organisations, engineering, facility management, HSE, IT and external project partners

• Experience in international or matrix-oriented organisations as well as a structured, independent and solution-oriented way of working; combined with the willingness to actively shape the development, professionalisation and further development of GREM-Engineering

• Very good knowledge of German and English, both written and spoken

Why this role is exciting:

In this position, you will actively shape challenging Building & Infrastructure Projects on the Group side and represent Fresenius' interests vis-à-vis internal stakeholders, external project partners, service providers, landlords, authorities, and experts. You will work at the interface of real estate engineering, business units, site organisations, facility management, technical functions and external partners and contribute to shaping professional delivery governance as well as the establishment and further development of GREM-Engineering for technically oriented real estate projects.

Design challenging Building & Infrastructure Projects at Fresenius with technical standards, a clear project structure and a high level of implementation expertise – become part of #futurefresenius