Location: United States, Greenwood (South Carolina), Houston (Texas), Portsmouth (New Hampshire), Walkersville (Maryland)
Today, Lonza is one of the world's largest healthcare manufacturing organizations operating across five continents. Our greatest scientific solution is talented people working together, devising ideas that help businesses to help people. In exchange, we let our people own their careers, and their ideas genuinely improve the world.
Position: Director Project Initiation Lead
The Director Project Initiation Lead is responsible for providing leadership, managing, and delivering capital investment projects across the Lonza network from initiation through to beneficial use. The Director maintains control of project costs, risks, schedule, and deliverables and interfaces with sponsors from business units, SMEs, operations, and other stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle. The position also has responsibilities to lead cross-functional teams across businesses and sites and will be the single point of contact for Project Initiation activities in the Global Engineering team.
Key Responsibilities: Ensure the project teams are resourced and set up to deliver the Global Engineering Front end initiation process.Maintain control of project costs, scope, deliverables, and schedule. Address escalations and implement appropriate mitigations for risks affecting project delivery.Screen incoming business ideas/requests at the ideation stage and develop an appropriate project execution strategy.Set project budgets, schedule baselines, and appropriate project controls strategy, including management of scope changes for successful delivery of project objectives.Provide leadership as part of the Global Engineering Front end core team and manage the interfaces with Project Sponsor, Lonza stakeholders, Global cross-functional teams & Customers.Oversee several Lonza and 3rd party contractor discipline leads.Key Requirements: Degree in Engineering (process, pharmaceutical, biochemical engineering, or equivalent) or extensive project management experience in multiple international CAPEX projects.10+ years of engineering experience or project management on Large Capital Projects (200MM) in chemical, biochemical, pharmaceutical industries, GMP facility with expertise in site/facility/process and utility functionality, setup and layout.Good project management skills.Extensive experience in Biotechnology/Pharma Processes.Engineering Design, Commissioning & Qualification experience.Knowledge of Pharmaceutical Industry standards and Quality requirements.Working knowledge of FDA Regulations including GAMP.Excellent problem-solving and Project Management skills.Skilled expert in MS Project, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Office.Open to international business travel (approx 20%).Every day, Lonza's products and services have a positive impact on millions of people. We respect and protect our people and our environment. Any success we achieve is no success at all if not achieved ethically.
Lonza is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a qualified individual with disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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