Engineering Manager – Owner’s Representative

Allied Staff Augmentation Partners, Inc. ( ASAP, Inc. ); Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

ASAP is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager – Owner’s Representative to support major capital projects in the pharmaceutical and life sciences sector. Location: Philadelphia, PA preferred; remote candidates in Eastern or Central Time Zones will be considered.

Travel is expected 25–50% to project locations in Alabama and Virginia. The role requires broad engineering leadership, coordination with multiple partners, and ensuring regulatory compliance throughout the project lifecycle.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive engineering experience.
• Engineering leadership on complex capital projects.
• Strong knowledge of cGMP, validation, and facility systems.
• Experience with design-bid-build, EPCM, or similar delivery models.

Responsibilities

• Serve as Owner’s primary engineering representative for multidisciplinary activities.
• Provide leadership from feasibility through turnover including commissioning and startup.
• Coordinate consultants, Engineers of Record, constructors, vendors, and stakeholders.
• Lead reviews of calculations, specs, drawings, and equipment packages.
• Ensure solutions meet codes, standards, regulatory guidance, and owner standards.
• Evaluate designs for constructability, operability, and lifecycle cost.
• Oversee RFIs, deviations, design changes, field changes, and VE proposals.
• Assess impacts to scope, cost, schedule, safety, and quality.
• Collaborate with operations, quality, validation, EHS, procurement, and project controls.
• Provide Owner-side engineering support through construction to handover.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder mgmt

Communication

Decision making

Negotiation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Job description

ASAP is hiring on behalf of our client for an experienced Engineering Manager – Owner’s Representative to support major capital projects within the pharmaceutical and life sciences industry.

No C2C inquiries.

This is a senior-level opportunity for an engineering leader who will represent the Owner’s interests throughout the project lifecycle while working closely with internal stakeholders, external engineering and design firms, construction teams, contractors, vendors, and other project partners.

Location: Philadelphia, PA preferred; remote candidates in Eastern or Central Time Zones will be considered

Travel: Approximately 25–50% to project locations in Alabama and Virginia

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as the Owner’s primary engineering representative and point of coordination for multidisciplinary engineering activities
• Provide engineering leadership and oversight from feasibility and conceptual design through detailed design, procurement, construction, commissioning, qualification, validation, startup, and turnover
• Coordinate engineering consultants, Engineers of Record, construction partners, contractors, vendors, and internal project stakeholders
• Lead multidisciplinary reviews of engineering calculations, specifications, drawings, models, equipment packages, and other key technical deliverables
• Ensure engineering solutions align with applicable codes, standards, cGMP requirements, regulatory guidance, project requirements, and Owner standards
• Evaluate designs for constructability, operability, maintainability, reliability, accessibility, lifecycle cost, and future expansion
• Oversee technical queries, RFIs, deviations, design changes, field changes, and value-engineering proposals
• Evaluate technical decisions and changes for potential impacts to scope, cost, schedule, safety, quality, risk, and operations
• Collaborate with operations, maintenance, automation, quality, validation, EHS, procurement, construction, commissioning, and project controls stakeholders
• Provide Owner-side engineering support throughout construction, installation, testing, startup, commissioning, qualification, validation, and final handover

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, or another relevant engineering discipline
• 15+ years of progressive engineering experience
• Significant experience supporting multidisciplinary capital projects within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, biopharmaceutical, specialty chemical, or other regulated manufacturing industries
• Demonstrated experience as an Engineering Manager, Owner’s Representative, Design Manager, or comparable technical leader on complex projects
• Strong working knowledge of cGMP requirements, equipment qualification and validation, process and clean utilities, automation interfaces, facility systems, construction, commissioning, and operational readiness
• Experience with design-bid-build, design-build, EPCM, construction management, or integrated project delivery models
• Strong commercial awareness with the ability to evaluate engineering decisions in relation to cost, schedule, risk, procurement, contracts, and lifecycle value
• Excellent leadership, communication, stakeholder management, negotiation, facilitation, and decision-making skills
• Professional Engineer (PE) license preferred, but not required

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced engineering leader with a strong pharmaceutical or life sciences background to take an Owner-side leadership role on complex, high-impact capital projects.