Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

As the new manufacturing site in Skawina is growing, there is another opportunity for a Project Manager to join the manufacturing team! This greenfield project requires a dynamic individual responsible for managing and coordinating high-impact projects associated with new products, product transfers, and technologies.

What will you do

• Project Management: Oversee the successful initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling, and closure of projects. Deliver projects within scope, schedule, cost, and quality parameters.
• Lead New Product/Product Transfer, process, and technology implementation initiatives while managing project spend on capital and expense budgets.
• Participate in the selection, training, and performance appraisal of project resources. Lead shared resources and deploy them in line with program priorities, ensuring elements of the team report to the PM.
• Performance Measurement: Establish clear, objective, and quantifiable metrics to monitor project/program progress, including PTQ, slippage, float, risk rating, and financials.
• Collaboration: Work closely with Divisional and GQO representatives to ensure successful project implementation. Engage actively with Manufacturing Operations to optimize floor space utilization, minimize handling, and enhance process flow.
• Problem Solving: Lead teams in complex situations, remove obstacles, assign appropriate resources, and interact with other functions to assist with issue resolution and work process streamlining.
• Risk Management: Identify, monitor, and manage project risks effectively, liaising with the broader AO team on common NPI/Product Transfer issues and resolutions.
• Priority Setting: Establish priorities, impart a sense of urgency, and follow Project Management methodology in project execution.
• Leadership: Provide high-quality leadership to Project Resources, generating an engaging and positive environment. The Project Manager will be measured against milestone delivery and people performance throughout the project lifecycle.

What you need

• Experience: Proven hands-on experience in implementing projects involving machinery and equipment on the production shop floor in a manufacturing environment is required, including automatisation and new technology projects.
• Demonstrated responsibility for leading projects with a value of no less than €5 million is essential.
• Education: Degree in an engineering discipline with minimum 6+ years of relevant experience in a technical and/or project management role. Project management qualification is desirable.
• Interpersonal Skills: Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to express ideas and collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams. Open-mindedness and the ability to recognize good ideas are essential.
• Decision Making: Decisive, taking ownership for results and able to influence key decision-makers.
• Analytical Skills: Excellent analytical skills with the ability to plan, organize, and implement concurrent tasks. Able to distill critical information from complex inputs.
• Risk Management: Proven ability to define and manage project risks effectively.
• Regulated Industry Experience: Experience in an FDA-regulated or similar regulated industry is beneficial.
• Technical Skills: High level of PC skills with expertise in MS Project (MS Excel, Access, PowerPoint). Experience with MES/SAP, GD&T, process mapping, statistical methods, and process/product validations is advantageous.

Salary information will be provided during the recruitment process.