What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Project Manager position at Germfree?
ROLE SUMMARY: The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for managing the overall direction of low to medium complexity projects and/or assist on highly complex ones (plans, budgets, schedules, and organization/assignment of projects). They maintain close contact with clients, monitors construction and financial activities, ensuring proper completion based on customer expectations and Germfree standards. The Senior Project Manager must have the ability to lead a cross-functional team to successfully deliver projects while managing the day-to-day challenges.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES:
- Provides full project life cycle ownership and leadership, resulting in successful project delivery from project initiation to customer turnover (i.e. Project Kickoff, Design Review, Production Coordination, cross-functional meetings, etc.)
- Leverages Germfree Core Values to lead a cross-functional project team, focusing on collaboration, client satisfaction, schedule adherence, and budget.
- Utilizes project management best practices, leveraging a broad and flexible toolkit of techniques to resolve interdependent activities into tasks and sub-tasks that are documented, monitored, and controlled.
- Serves as the single Point of Contact for the Client and other stakeholders, developing and managing all aspects of project engagement from planning, external vendor relationships, communications, resources, budget, changes, risks, etc.
- Prepares, maintains, and submits clear and concise activity/progress reports in accordance with Germfree policies, proactively identifying and resolving any issues impacting project success.
- Demonstrates the ability and/or seeks support from Senior PMs to recognize problems and/or conflict, create the appropriate sense of urgency, and bring the right people together to solve and close out the issue.
- Client Focus: Promotes customer involvement through continuous communication of project status and quickly responding/resolving any concerns, ensuring customer satisfaction.
- Creates a continuous improvement environment through robust lessons learned/escalation process and management of change, creating personal accountability to eliminate repeat mistakes
- Enforces effective change control, ensuring scope creep and other changes are captured and communicated in accordance with Germfree policies (i.e. Change Orders).
- Ensures the project team maintains detailed records of the life of a project and shares information as necessary
- Perform other related duties as assigned
QUALIFICATIONS:
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, Construction Management, or equivalent technical area of study.
- Minimum two (2) years of project management experience and/or training.
- cGMP Pharmaceutical Project Management Experience strongly preferred
Experience/Knowledge/Skills:
- Experience in P6 or similar scheduling software
- Demonstrated project management leadership abilities of a diverse, cross-functional team
- Knowledgeable of good project management processes and principles
- Ability to read and interpret regulations, guidance documents, technical manuals, and specifications, read and interpret drawings, and specifications
- Knowledge of code compliance
- Familiar knowledge of construction components, processes, and construction methods
- Excellent communication, organization, planning, problem-solving, and follow-up skills
- Strong computer skills are a necessity, with an ability to accurately convey information in both spoken and written form. Comfortable making presentations to management and customers.
- OSHA 10 preferred
SUPERVISION REQUIRED: Minimal – Ability to work independently or with others to complete tasks on schedule.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: None
WORK SCHEDULE/ENVIRONMENT: Full-time, Monday through Friday 8:00 – 5:00. Up to 50% Travel.
Why You’ll Love Germfree: We want to make sure that you can expect excellence from us as well, and so we provide the best work environment possible to allow you to love what you do. We will give you everything you need to succeed, and will also motivate you to push yourself in new and positive ways. Whether this is meeting new people, working on projects you are passionate about, or innovating a process – we will help make it happen. A super hardcore work ethic, talent for building things, common sense & trustworthiness are required. At Germfree, you will get out exactly what you put in, and we know you can excel with us.
