GMP Sterile Construction PM — Onsite Lead

Actalent; King of Prussia (PA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 131,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical dental vision

401(k) plan

Life Insurance

Disability insurance

HSA

Transport benefits

Employee assistance

Job summary

Actalent is seeking a Sterile Construction Project Manager for a one-year sterile fit-out on a pharmaceutical manufacturing site, based in King of Prussia, PA. You will represent the owner, ensure the GC meets schedule, budget, and bid commitments, and manage key change control and RFI processes.

This on-site role requires immediate start and coordination with engineering, CQV, QA, operations, and facilities teams.

Qualifications

• Experience in construction management and project management, specifically in GMP regulated construction.
• Experience in sterile fill and pharmaceutical manufacturing facility construction.
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical process equipment installation.

Responsibilities

• Hold the GC accountable to its contract, bid, and scope of work, flagging any discrepancies between the bid and actual work or billing.
• Lead weekly progress meetings with the owner and GC, tracking action items to closure.
• Escalate quality, cost, schedule, safety, and turnover risks before they affect commissioning or qualification.
• Verify weekly updates to the construction schedule, including progress, forecast dates, and logic changes.
• Field verify that activities reported complete are indeed finished.
• Challenge GC forecast and completion dates unsupported by manpower, materials, or progress.
• Require recovery plans for delayed activities and track them to completion.
• Ensure the schedule reflects equipment deliveries, utility tie-ins, commissioning, CQV turnover, and operational readiness milestones.
• Enforce a formal change control process where no changes in scope, cost, or schedule proceed without documented review and owner approval.
• Evaluate change order requests for entitlement, pricing, and schedule impact before recommending approval.
• Maintain a change log and track committed costs against the bid and approved budget.
• Validate pay applications against work actually installed, not merely the schedule of values.
• Manage the RFI process between the GC and the engineering team for design questions on installed work.
• Ensure each RFI is complete, routed to the appropriate engineer, and answered within the agreed response time.
• Maintain an RFI log, follow up on overdue responses, and identify RFIs that may lead to cost or schedule changes.
• Manage shop drawings, submittals, and procurement tracking alongside RFIs.
• Review in-progress work and progress photos against specifications, drawings, and approved shop drawings.
• Ensure field documentation supports System Turnover Packages, preventing documentation gaps from delaying qualification.
• Coordinate with various stakeholders including the GC, trade contractors, design team, equipment vendors, CQV, Quality, Operations, EHS, IT, automation, and facility personnel.

Skills

Construction PM experience

GMP regulated construction

Sterile/pharma facility experience

RFI / change control

Tools

BMS/EMS controls

CQV knowledge

AutoCAD or similar

Job description

Actalent is seeking a Sterile Construction Project Manager for a one-year sterile fit-out on a pharmaceutical manufacturing site, based in King of Prussia, PA. You will represent the owner, ensure the GC meets schedule, budget, and bid commitments, and manage key change control and RFI processes.

This on-site role requires immediate start and coordination with engineering, CQV, QA, operations, and facilities teams.