Associate Director, Engineering Field

About This Role

This engineering leadership role involves managing large capital projects or a portfolio of smaller projects within manufacturing, laboratory, and infrastructure lines of business. The Associate Director will lead integrated project teams to deliver critical assets on time and within budget, ensuring continuous improvement and innovation in manufacturing operations.

Responsibilities

• Manage an integrated project team to deliver critical assets on time and within a prescribed budget
• Lead the development of project execution plans
• Verify that project scopes provide an effective business solution
• Manage projects process through effective design strategies
• Develop and implement suitable procurement strategies
• Understand and manage project cost budgeting and control
• Manage schedule development and control
• Provide construction management oversight
• Implement change management and control
• Manage communications requirements with effective reporting and distribution of information
• Plan and mitigate risk
• Manage/implement commissioning, qualification, contract administration and project close-out

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering
• Minimum of ten (10) years’ experience executing/delivering a variety of capital and/or expense projects
• Experience in managing an integrated project team to deliver critical assets on time and within a prescribed budget
• Proficient oral and written communication skills along with the ability to deliver project status and funding presentations in a concise, effective and organized manner
• Outstanding decision-making skills and strengths in change management and team alignment
• Ability to collaborate in a team environment that is sensitive to the needs of the business
• Adaptability
• Automation Systems
• Capital Project Management
• Change Management
• Clinical Manufacturing
• Communication Management
• Contract Administration
• Contract Processing
• Cost Controls
• Cost Management
• Data Analysis
• Drug Product Manufacturing
• Interpersonal Relationships
• Lean Manufacturing
• Management Contracts
• Manufacturing Scale-Up
• Project Budgeting
• Project Contracts
• Project Costs
• Project Delivery
• Project Implementations
• Project Management Methodology (PMM)
• Project Planning

Nice to have:

• Experience in Lean Project Delivery Methodologies (i.e. target value design, off-site fabrication, pull planning scheduling tools)

Important Details

• Locations: West Point, PA; Rahway, NJ; Wilmington, DE
• Travel: up to 50% within the Americas to support projects at various plant sites

About the Company

Our company's Global Engineering Services (GES) group executes a wide variety of capital and expense projects to ensure the company has the capabilities and facilities to meet its goal to provide World Class Supply of Medicines. Engineers support internal and external manufacturing operations to remain operational, continuously improve, and innovate across many areas including Biological, Chemical, Automation, Capital Projects, Maintenance, Safety, Process Development, Technical Services, Utilities and Validation.