Associate Director, Engineering

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Associate Director Global Engineering Solutions

Our Engineers support internal and external manufacturing operations remain operational continuously improve and innovate. With our extensive range of facilities and environments our Engineers have opportunities across many diverse areas including Biological Chemical Automation Capital Projects Maintenance Safety Process Development Technical Services Utilities and Validation.

Global Engineering Solutions (GES) executes a wide variety of capital and expense projects to ensure that our company has the capabilities and facilities to meet our goal to provide World Class Supply of Medicines. The GES group is seeking an Associate Director of Engineering to manage large capital projects independently or a series of smaller projects within a portfolio in the manufacturing laboratory packaging and infrastructure lines of business. While the initial assignment is located in the North Carolina Region future roles and responsibilities are dependent upon future project workload and locations.

Responsibilities include:

• Manage large capital projects independently or manage a series of smaller capital and/or expense projects within a portfolio delivering critical assets safely on time within approved scope and within prescribed budget.

• Lead integrated project teams across GES Site Engineering Operations Quality EHS Maintenance Technology Procurement Finance and external delivery partners building effective working relationships to align assigned projects with site expectations business priorities and applicable project delivery standards.

• Lead development and execution of project execution plans for assigned projects including scope delivery strategy procurement construction commissioning/startup risk management communications and closeout.

• Ensure assigned project scopes deliver effective business solutions aligned with business priorities manufacturing needs compliance expectations safety requirements applicable standards and approved capital objectives.

• Manage project design development through scope definition design coordination constructability review value management and disciplined evaluations of project decisions and trade-offs.

• Develop/support project specific procurement and contracting strategies in partnership with Procurement Legal site stakeholders and GES leadership to support schedule risk allocation and business requirements.

• Manage project budgeting forecasting financial reporting cost control contingency and change control processes including appropriate evaluation documentation communication and obtaining appropriate approvals for changes affecting scope cost schedule quality or approved business objectives.

• Manage project schedules including planning sequencing milestone tracking critical path management shutdown/tie-in coordination and recovery planning.

• Provide oversight for assigned projects including field coordination contractor performance construction safety interface execution quality issue resolution and alignment with site requirements.

• Prepare and coordinate project governance funding stage-gate and decision materials for assigned projects for review by appropriate site GES and capital governance stakeholders using applicable company processes templates and guidance.

• Manage project communications reporting and escalation of key issues to support timely decisions by project teams site stakeholders and senior leaders.

• Identify manage mitigate and escalate project risks affecting safety quality compliance cost schedule startup readiness and business continuity.

• Coordinate project execution within active manufacturing environments partnering with site teams on field verification permitting shutdown and tie-in planning utility impacts operational constraints and business continuity.

• Manage or support commissioning qualification validation interface turnover documentation contract administration closeout lessons learned and transition of completed assets to site operations.

• Provide project delivery guidance coaching and day-to-day project leadership to project team members and less experienced engineers or project managers as appropriate while respecting functional and direct-line management accountabilities.

The initial assignment is located in Wilson NC. The Associate Director Engineering will serve as a site-integrated project delivery leader for assigned capital and expense projects and may support future assignments in Durham NC and other company sites including domestic and international travel consistent with business and project needs. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to build strong site relationships develop familiarity with Wilson campus operations and contribute to a portfolio of meaningful projects that support safe reliable and compliance manufacturing operations.

Education Minimum Requirement:

• A Bachelors Degree in Engineering

Required Experience and Skills:

• A minimum of ten (10) years of experience executing and delivering capital and/or expense projects in manufacturing laboratory infrastructure or similarly complex operating environments including demonstrated experience independently managing capital projects within a site business program or comparable capital delivery environment.

• Experience leading integrated cross-functional project teams and influencing stakeholders in support of capital project delivery.

• Experience delivering projects in an active manufacturing or operating facility where safety quality compliance operational continuity and startup readiness are critical.

• Working knowledge of project controls including cost schedule forecasting change management risk management and project reporting.

• Strong oral and written communication skills including experience preparing clear project updates risk summaries escalation materials and decision documents for cross-functional stakeholders.

• Strong judgment and decision-making skills with ability to align teams manage change resolve issues assess risk and make sound recommendations in a dynamic project delivery environment.

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Experience supporting capital projects in GMP pharmaceutical biologics vaccine sterile manufacturing packaging or other regulated or quality-critical manufacturing environments.

• Experience with project types such as manufacturing facility upgrades packaging systems utilities electrical infrastructure fire protection energy resilience or site infrastructure.

• Familiarity with commissioning qualification/validation interfaces turnover startup readiness and operational handover expectations.

• Familiarity with corporate capital governance stage-gate funding authorization or equivalent capital project approval processes.

• Experience working with external delivery partners such as engineering firms construction managers design-build/EPCM partners trade contractors consultants and equipment vendors.

• Experience applying coaching and assessing teams effective use of Lean Project Delivery methods such as pull planning constraint management visual management target value delivery collaborative planning or continuous improvement.

• Experience coaching or mentoring engineers project managers or cross-functional team members in capital project delivery practices.

• Experience applying structured project risk constructability operational readiness or startup readiness review processes or tools.

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