Capital Project Manager

Limerick
2 weeks ago
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Capital Project Manager

Opportunity:

NIRAS is currently recruiting for an experienced Capital Project Manager who will Lead and manage large scale Biopharma capital projects consisting of contracted professionals to safely achieve project objectives from front end design through operational qualification. The objectives for projects include: safety/environmental compliance and continuous improvement, relentless pursuit of value improvements via cost or schedule enhancements at all delivery stages, fulfilment of project business objectives in the form of capability delivered with adherence to quality objectives.

The Capital Project Manager will be responsible for the following:-

Safety/Environment:

  • Developing and maintaining safety and environmental execution plans for projects.

  • Ensuring compliance to safety and environmental policies, procedures, and work rules for project personnel, contractors, and subcontractors from conceptual design through operational qualification.

  • Demonstrating leadership and continuous improvement in safety and environmental processes.

    Compliance:

  • Leading with a disciplined, structured approach to project management based on industry accepted project management tool-sets..

    Interface/Communication:

  • Developing/maintaining communication with project team, business partners and other stakeholders.

  • Projects will be of strategic importance to the Enterprise so ability to effectively communicate with a wide variety of stakeholders is of utmost importance with attention to detail and the ability to relate those details to the overall business objective.

  • The Capital Project Manager must effectively work with site personnel to ensure capabilities are delivered and consistent with needs of operation while maintaining safety, cost, and schedule conformance.

    Culture:

  • In certain circumstances, the Capital Project Manager may need to:-

  • Interact with the external environment.

  • Must represent the client to external partners and to the community.

  • Must demonstrate the ability to foster the right culture on the worksite as well as convey this externally

    Required Skill Sets and Attributes:

    The Capital Project Manager must have;-

  • The capacity to achieve results through people.

  • Facilitate issue resolution, anticipate scope changes, and implement safely with quality, speed and value.

  • Exhibit a good sense of judgment in decision making, without need for management approval while at the same time keeping management informed and engaged on critical issues.

  • Have in-depth knowledge and experience in, application of industry accepted project management experience.

  • Demonstrable value and disciplined, structured approach to project management and ability to create and communicate progress via a metric based program.

  • Effective communication skills both written and verbal.

  • Ability to influence personnel and organizations without having direct administrative responsibility for them.

  • Influence on and understanding of external environment in order to understand comparative value and possible risks.

    Education and Experience Requirements:

  • Ideally over 10 years of work experience across major pharmaceutical start up’s

  • Third Level Qualification or equivalent preferably in an engineering / project management field

  • Capital Expenditure > €50 Million.

    Who We are:

    NIRAS provides Project Management, Engineering Design, and Project resourcing services to the Pharmaceutical and Life Science Sectors. As a company we specialize in the design and delivery of process-driven projects. One of Europe's largest development consulting firms, employing over 3000 permanent staff and with a pool of 25,000+ experts across our global network of 51 offices in 32 countries, NIRAS has a local presence across the world and is committed to building long-term partnerships everywhere we work.

    If you are a motivated and experienced Capital Projects Manager, looking to take the next step in your career, we encourage you to apply and come join our team at NIRAS NIRAS Projects and Office Locations

    Take The Next Step!

    For a confidential discussion regarding this and our many other exciting opportunities with NIRAS, please contact Philip Cahill at (phone number removed)

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