Overview
Project Management Consultant
Position Type
Contract
Location
Northumberland
Categories
Project Management, Engineering
PM Group requires a Packing Lines Delivery Project Manager with experience in secondary pharmaceutical projects to lead a client team based in Northumberland.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
1. Responsible for the delivery of the capital packing line scope for the project
2. Develop detailed project execution plans, schedules and risk register
3. Ensure compliance with site engineering standards, GMP, SHE, and environmental regulations
4. Ensures scope is delivered on schedule and within cost parameters
5. Feed project updates and KPIs into overall project governance structure
6. Review and approve vendor design information, equipment specifications, and vendor drawings
7. Lead FAT (Factory Acceptance testing), SAT (Site Acceptance Testing, and commissioning
8. Coordinate installation contractors, OEMs, and internal delivery team
9. Support equipment qualification (DQ, IQ, OQ, OQ) in partnership with validation team
10. Support Operational Start-up Leader to ensure seamless integration of new packing lines into production systems
11. Deliver lines capable of achieving agreed OEE, throughput, and quality performance KPIs
12. Single point of contact with OEMs to ensure delivery of technical and contractual requirements
13. Single point of contact with facility and installation contractors to ensure correct and timely hook-up and integration of the packing lines with utilities and the facility
14. Ensures equipment standardisation across the packing lines
15. Drives lessons learned and continuous improvement across capital project delivery, including opportunities across the wider project
Qualifications
16. Degree level engineering qualification or similar equivalent experience
17. Proven experience of delivering packaging equipment or production equipment projects in a regulated industry (Pharmaceuticals, FMCG, or similar)
18. Knowledge of packing line equipment (cartoners, labellers, blister machines, case packers, vision systems, serialisation, etc.)
19. Experience of leading and coordinating a project team through design reviews, vendor acceptance tests, and commissioning
20. Experience of managing equipment vendors, including those outside the UK
21. Experience with commissioning, validation, and GMP compliance
22. Strong stakeholder management and contractor supervision skills
23. Formal Project Management qualification (Prince2, PMP, or similar) desirable but not essential if a track-record of capital project delivery can be demonstrated
24. The role will require travel to equipment vendors in the EU for design reviews, progress visits, and factory acceptance testing (FAT). The monthly travel % will vary depending on project phase, peaking at FATs, where multiple one to two week trips will be required, sometimes during the summer holiday period.
Responsibilities
25. Responsible for the delivery of the capital packing line scope for the project
26. Develop detailed project execution plans, schedules and risk register
27. Ensure compliance with site engineering standards, GMP, SHE, and environmental regulations
28. Ensures scope is delivered on schedule and within cost parameters
29. Feed project updates and KPIs into overall project governance structure
30. Review and approve vendor design information, equipment specifications, and vendor drawings
31. Lead FAT (Factory Acceptance testing), SAT (Site Acceptance Testing, and commissioning
32. Coordinate installation contractors, OEMs, and internal delivery team
33. Support equipment qualification (DQ, IQ, OQ, OQ) in partnership with validation team
34. Support Operational Start-up Leader to ensure seamless integration of new packing lines into production systems
35. Deliver lines capable of achieving agreed OEE, throughput, and quality performance KPIs
36. Single point of contact with OEMs to ensure delivery of technical and contractual requirements
37. Single point of contact with facility and installation contractors to ensure correct and timely hook-up and integration of the packing lines with utilities and the facility
38. Ensures equipment standardisation across the packing lines
39. Drives lessons learned and continuous improvement across capital project delivery, including opportunities across the wider project
40. Degree level engineering qualification or similar equivalent experience
41. Proven experience of delivering packaging equipment or production equipment projects in a regulated industry (Pharmaceuticals, FMCG, or similar)
42. Knowledge of packing line equipment (cartoners, labellers, blister machines, case packers, vision systems, serialisation, etc.)
43. Experience of leading and coordinating a project team through design reviews, vendor acceptance tests, and commissioning
44. Experience of managing equipment vendors, including those outside the UK
45. Experience with commissioning, validation, and GMP compliance
46. Strong stakeholder management and contractor supervision skills
47. Formal Project Management qualification (Prince2, PMP, or similar) desirable but not essential if a track-record of capital project delivery can be demonstrated
48. The role will require travel to equipment vendors in the EU for design reviews, progress visits, and factory acceptance testing (FAT). The monthly travel % will vary depending on project phase, peaking at FATs, where multiple one to two week trips will be required, sometimes during the summer holiday period.