Project Manager / Project Engineer

Project Manager/Project Engineer - Italy, Pescara - 6 Month Contract

With more than 2,000 employees, more than 300 million units per year, and a lot of innovative medicines in the pipeline, no wonder our client is one of the largest production units in the world! Our client produces, packs and distributes in a high-tech environment, sterile injectable medicines. More than 1 million injectable medicines are produced, packaged and distributed every day. Their destination: 170 countries, worldwide!

Do you want to work with an exciting company who are an established market leader within their niche field? We have a fantastic opportunity for a Project Manager/Project Engineer to work on an exciting CapEx project in Italy on an initial 6 month contract. As Project Manager/Project Engineer, you will play a key role in the successful delivery of a new state of the art facility.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities for this Project Manager role include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Can work independently to meet key deliverables and milestones in addition to being able to effectively lead work within a matrix team working under the stewardship of the Site Capital Plan Manager or Senior Project Managers.
• Works closely with Senior Project Managers to build & manage the Schedule; this includes task forecasting and ensuring controls are in place to anticipate adherence / slippage vs plan and ensure mitigating actions are in place, as required.
• Establishment and management of routine team meetings to facilitate plan updates, decision-making, problem solving, escalations e.g. resourcing gaps, mitigations vs non-adherence to plan.
• Provides timely and thorough project update reports to key project stakeholders and senior management.
• Partners with all other functions responsible for progress of the change project, typically Quality, EHS, Production, Regulatory, External Vendors, among others.
• Maintains oversight on Project budget, reporting into Site Capital Project Controls; manages project risks i.e. leads the development of risk assessment and mitigations with the Site Capital project team.
• Coordinates on field activities (such as equipment installation, commissioning & validation, construction activities, etc) with contractors, external suppliers and internal SME
• Administrative activities for the project such as action/issue item tracking, generation of meeting minutes.
  
  

Desirable Experience:

• Strong knowledge of pharmaceutical manufacturing unit processes; understanding of the Pharma regulatory environment, while not essential, would be advantageous.
• Minimum of a Degree in a Science or Engineering discipline with extensive project management experience. Project management skills to include experience of successful delivery of projects on schedule and to budget.
• Fluent in Italian
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to articulate a problem and communicate effectively. Intuitive and focused on Achieving results.
• Well-developed interpersonal skills (leadership, integrity, team orientation, flexibility, and creativity).
• Experience of working remotely within a Project team in a matrixed & virtual environment.
  
  

If this role is of interest to you, please apply now!