SR Principal Engineer/Principal Engineer , Project Management

Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Boehringer Ingelheim in the United States seeks a Senior Principal Engineer, Project Management to drive strategic projects across process engineering, facility engineering, and automation. You will lead design, start-up, qualification, start-up, working with global and local leaders to deliver on-time, within budget and with quality.

You will oversee cross-functional teams, manage budgets, track milestones, and spearhead risk mitigation while ensuring alignment with quality and sourcing

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an accredited institution required; MBA preferred.
• Minimum five years of Animal/Human Health industry knowledge with leadership experience.
• Global supply/animal health/pharmaceutical manufacturing experience in GMP environments.
• Proven ability to deliver ROI and manage multi-project portfolios.
• Strong engineering/automation knowledge for cross-functional solutions.
• Experience guiding design to start-up, qualification, and operational handover.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, planning, qualification, and start-up for strategic projects.
• Coordinate engineering, quality, sourcing, and operations stakeholders.
• Manage budgets, milestones, risks, and communications with site and global teams.
• Ensure on-time delivery within budget with required quality and GMP compliance.
• Mentor and align up to seven personnel across engineering/operations.

Skills

Project management

Global supply chain

Engineering leadership

Problem-solving

Financial acumen

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic thinking

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree

MBA

Job description

Description

As an employee of Boehringer Ingelheim, you will actively contribute to the discovery, development, and delivery of our products to our patients and customers. Our global presence provides an opportunity for all employees to collaborate internationally, offering visibility and the opportunity to directly contribute to the company's success. We realize that our strength and competitive advantage lie with our people. We support our employees in several ways to foster a healthy working environment, meaningful work, mobility, networking, and work-life balance. Our competitive compensation and benefit programs reflect Boehringer Ingelheim's high regard for our employees.
The Senior Principal Engineer, Project Management will drive and execute key strategic projects - related to process engineering, project execution, project coordination, project reporting, project qualification, project start-up, and project training. This role interacts with key stakeholders (global leaders, local leaders, and local GFE/operations) to ensure smooth project transition from design, to build, to qualify, to train, and to start-up.

Duties & Responsibilities

Project Design:

• Drives the process engineering activities related to key strategic projects - this includes leading the engineering efforts for both internal and external engineering.
• Drives the facility engineering efforts related to utilities, power, and equipment layout.
• Leads the automation efforts for the strategic projects that ensures the equipment is integrated and functions as one unit.
• Ensures the process, facility, and automation engineering comes together successful to meet overall strategic aspects of the project (headcount, efficiency, productivity, etc.)

Project Planning/Tracking/Reporting:

• Actively steers project timely related to engineering planning, execution, and communication
• Oversees the overall engineering execution between internal/external stakeholders.
• Ensures the engineering budget is managed, steered related to cost, timing, and expected level of quality.
• Routinely manages/reports the project to ensure full transparency, have clear milestones, synchronize the engineering tasks with other stakeholders related to quality, costs, sourcing, etc.
• Communicates clearly with site leadership team, project team, and global stakeholders project status, risks, mitigations, next steps.

Project Execution:

• Ensures engineering execution continues as planned.
• Steers engineering to ensure risks/delays are understood, mitigated and communicated.
• As needed, organizes key stakeholders to facilitate solutions to keep project moving forward.
• Drives the execution to ensure the deliverables are clear and articulated (if needed use tier board or similar visual performance process).

Project Qualification:

• Ensures the project is qualified per design related to equipment, capacity, capabilities, quality, automation, layout, efficiency, productivity.
• Aligns with key stakeholders to ensure right level of qualifications are performed.
• Ensures documentation, change control, and digital tracking requirements are completed.
• Partners with operations/quality/sourcing and any other necessary function to ensure qualification process is aligned, clear, and completed per expectations.

Project Start-up:

• Ensures the project start-up goes smoothly between engineering deliverables, qualification, expectations, and operations team.
• Supports operational training of the project.
• Ensures both classroom and hands-on training is performed at a level to perform timely and seamless start-up.
• Partners with operational leaders to support shift work (if required) to support training/start-up/documentation. Includes creating/reviewing/approving documentation of batch records/procedure.

Leadership:

• May directly and/or indirectly lead up to seven (7) Barceloneta personnel connected to engineering, operations, or other pertinent area necessary to steer successful project execution.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution required. MBA preferred.
• At least five (5) years Animal/ Human Health industry knowledge (e.g. Consulting, engineering, operational leadership, business excellence improvements) Including influencing or leading others.
• Global Supply Animal health / human pharmaceutical business experience, with significant technical/engineering/operations experience for the manufacturing of GMP products
• Must have experience with advanced problem-solving, project coordination, and steering a culture to deliver the project on-time, within budget, and to meet expected deliverables.
• Should be able to demonstrate project / program ROI results from previous experience.
• Ability to successfully steer, report, facilitate, challenge, and deliver technical projects on-time and meet the strategic deliverables.
• Demonstrated engineering and automation knowledge to serve as a technical partner on a broad range of operational topics.
• Project management experience and ability to oversee multiple projects running simultaneously and provide quality control and guidance on projects
• Demonstrated ability to bridge strategic and operational thinking, translating strategy into operational tactics
• Knowledge of operations management tactics to ensure project plan can be translated into operational reality.
• Entrepreneurial spirit, self-starter and strong initiative
• Strong general management and problem solving
• Demonstrated business acumen, analytical and financial skills
• Demonstrated diversity and inclusion/cultural awareness

Eligibility Requirements:

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without restriction.
• Must be willing to take a drug test and post-offer physical (if required).
• Must be 18 years of age or older.