Engineering project manager / capex biotech (F/H)

Role and Responsibilities

• Ensuring the business/operational objectives of the new business requirements are well-defined.
• Performing systematic business analysis.
• Validating business requirements to align with business/operations needs as well as IT architecture and security standards.
• Designing functional solutions & user workflows and documenting Functional Specifications.
• Develop SIT/UAT/NRT scope and approach.
• To guide the Testing team in writing test scenarios/cases and review to get signoff from stakeholders.
• Rationalize test cases when needed to match with available resources and target timeline.
• Validate SIT test results produced by the testing team to sign off.
• Assist users in planning/executing UAT, analyzing defects, and defining defects priority for fix delivery by the development team.

We are looking for a Biotech Building Construction Project Manager to join our LifeSciences teams in Switzerland.

He/she is responsible for supervising and coordinating the execution of work on site, from the design phase through to final delivery. He/she is responsible for operational site supervision, guaranteeing safety, adherence to schedules, quality of work and coordination between the various players (internal and external).

Mission:

Preparing the work

• Participate in studies and planning of work execution.
• Assess resource requirements, costs and constraints.
• Working with the HSE team, define the necessary safety measures.
• Ensure compliance of legal and regulatory documents.
• Prepare and organize site installations (living quarters, access, flow, energy).

Site supervision and coordination

• Supervise and coordinate day-to-day work activities, including external contractors.
• Ensure operational safety on site (HSE documents, lifting plans, risk analyses, work permits).
• Ensure compliance with internal regulations and requirements.
• Monitor work progress and identify potential discrepancies.
• Carry out regular inspections (safety, quality, equipment, scaffolding, electricity, etc.).
• Validate contractors' work logs.

Communication and reporting

• Produce clear and regular progress reports for Project Leaders.
• Participate in technical coordination and site monitoring meetings.
• Communicate proactively with project teams (Engineering Lead, SMEs, Project Manager).
• Provide feedback at the end of the project.

Safety (HSE)

• Ensure compliance with HSE standards on site, without taking the place of HSE specialists.
• Actively participate in risk analyses (JRA, LOTO, PLCA).
• Ensure proper application and daily closing of work permits.
• Report any shortcomings and apply corrective measures in agreement with line management.

Job responsibilities

• Lead technical study into a propose solution, while involving expertise from infrastructure big data expert, business analyst requirement
• Document proposed design and develop the solution
• Implicitly ensure all CI-CD artefacts are part of the solution
• Perform code review while fostering knowledge and coaching best practices to team members
• Interact and provide reporting to project managers
• Monitor technical risk and escalate appropriately to management
• Research, design, and develop software.
• Analyse user needs and develop software solutions
• Update software, enhances existing software capabilities, and develops and direct software testing and validation procedures.
• Work with other engineers to integrate hardware and/or software systems

The position requires autonomy and reliability in performing duties with initiatives and leadership when it comes to all non-functional deliverables such as testing tools, mocking objects, production monitoring concerns, quality control including performance and load testing.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage all aspects of project and program engagement from planning, external vendor relationships, communications, resources, budget, change, risks and issues
• Continually manage stakeholder expectations through governance processes
• Deliver appropriate and effective executive level communication
• Provide status reporting regarding milestones, deliverables, dependencies, communicating across leadership and business stakeholders
• Manage a portfolio of complex initiatives that span one or multiple lines of business
• Own the full project life cycle end to end
• Ensure the program is aligned to and supports strategic objectives
• Prepare detailed project plan for all phases of the project
• Manage the day-to-day project activities, including project management working and steering committees
• Understand interdependencies between technology, operations and business needs
• Monitor, track and control outcomes to resolve issues, conflicts, dependencies and critical path deliverables
• Ensure that projects and programs are proceeding according to scope, schedule, budget and quality standards

Project Scope

• Backend development and maintenance using Java and Spring Boot
• Event-driven processing with Kafka
• Deployment and orchestration using Kubernetes and Docker
• CI/CD automation with ArgoCD
• Frontend development with Angular 13
• Collaboration and documentation via Confluence and Jira