SR Principal Engineer/Principal Engineer , Project Management

Boehringer Ingelheim is a global company that focuses on the discovery, development, and delivery of products to patients and customers. The Senior Principal Engineer, Project Management will drive and execute key strategic projects related to process engineering and project coordination while ensuring smooth transitions from design to start-up.

Responsibilities:

• Drives the process engineering activities related to key strategic projects - this includes leading the engineering efforts for both internal and external engineering
• Drives the facility engineering efforts related to utilities, power, and equipment layout
• Leads the automation efforts for the strategic projects that ensures the equipment is integrated and functions as one unit
• Ensures the process, facility, and automation engineering comes together successful to meet overall strategic aspects of the project (headcount, efficiency, productivity, etc.)
• Actively steers project timely related to engineering planning, execution, and communication
• Oversees the overall engineering execution between internal/external stakeholders
• Ensures the engineering budget is managed, steered related to cost, timing, and expected level of quality
• Routinely manages/reports the project to ensure full transparency, have clear milestones, synchronize the engineering tasks with other stakeholders related to quality, costs, sourcing, etc
• Communicates clearly with site leadership team, project team, and global stakeholders project status, risks, mitigations, next steps
• Ensures engineering execution continues as planned
• Steers engineering to ensure risks/delays are understood, mitigated and communicated
• As needed, organizes key stakeholders to facilitate solutions to keep project moving forward
• Drives the execution to ensure the deliverables are clear and articulated (if needed use tier board or similar visual performance process)
• Ensures the project is qualified per design related to equipment, capacity, capabilities, quality, automation, layout, efficiency, productivity
• Aligns with key stakeholders to ensure right level of qualifications are performed
• Ensures documentation, change control, and digital tracking requirements are completed
• Partners with operations/quality/sourcing and any other necessary function to ensure qualification process is aligned, clear, and completed per expectations
• Ensures the project start-up goes smoothly between engineering deliverables, qualification, expectations, and operations team
• Supports operational training of the project
• Ensures both classroom and hands-on training is performed at a level to perform timely and seamless start-up
• Partners with operational leaders to support shift work (if required) to support training/start-up/documentation. Includes creating/reviewing/approving documentation of batch records/procedure
• May directly and/or indirectly lead up to seven (7) Barceloneta personnel connected to engineering, operations, or other pertinent area necessary to steer successful project execution

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution required
• At least five (5) years Animal/ Human Health industry knowledge (e.g. Consulting, engineering, operational leadership, business excellence improvements) Including influencing or leading others
• Global Supply Animal health / human pharmaceutical business experience, with significant technical/engineering/operations experience for the manufacturing of GMP products
• Must have experience with advanced problem–solving, project coordination, and steering a culture to deliver the project on-time, within budget, and to meet expected deliverables
• Should be able to demonstrate project / program ROI results from previous experience
• Ability to successfully steer, report, facilitate, challenge, and deliver technical projects on-time and meet the strategic deliverables
• Demonstrated engineering and automation knowledge to serve as a technical partner on a broad range of operational topics
• Project management experience and ability to oversee multiple projects running simultaneously and provide quality control and guidance on projects
• Demonstrated ability to bridge strategic and operational thinking, translating strategy into operational tactics
• Knowledge of operations management tactics to ensure project plan can be translated into operational reality
• Entrepreneurial spirit, self-starter and strong initiative
• Strong general management and problem solving
• Demonstrated business acumen, analytical and financial skills
• Demonstrated diversity and inclusion/cultural awareness
• BS degree in construction-related engineering (engineering management, civil, mechanical, etc.) or related field from accredited engineering school and four to seven (4-7) years of relevant engineering experience
• Planning organization, coordinating, and developing projects, budgets
• Obtaining bids, coordinating construction projects for facilities and/or equipment repairs, negotiate contracts, discuss projects
• Strong team orientation and ability to work cross functionally with various groups such as Safety, Quality, Maintenance, Purchasing, Industrial Development, R&D, and Manufacturing
• Abreast of new developments in Engineering fields that pertain to facilities, utilities, and various other operations throughout the plant
• Scheduling capital activities to meet production needs
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without restriction
• Must be willing to take a drug test and post-offer physical (if required)
• Must be 18 years of age or older
• MBA preferred
• Masters in Engineering or MBA preferred
• PMP and/or EIT or PE or strong desire to pursue preferred