Senior Project Manager (2969SS)

Verista’s 700 experts team up with the world’s most recognizable brands in the life science industry to solve their business needs. Whether it’s compliance, quality management, verification, validation, automation, IT infrastructure, data analysis, manufacturing, or packaging, we deliver solutions that are right the first time.

Our ability to grow is driven by world-class people who thrive in a team environment and share our mission to enable life sciences clients to improve lives. Our talented and dedicated professionals are committed to making an impact every day.

Company Culture Guidelines & Values:

• We empower and support our colleagues
• We commit to client success at every turn
• We have the courage to do the right thing
• We encourage an inclusive environment where our colleagues feel respected, engaged, and challenged
• We constantly acquire new skills and learn from our experiences to enhance our collective expertise

Senior Project Manager Responsibilities:

• Proactively assisting and/or developing, implementing, and clearly communicating project scope, schedules, and budgets to ensure that project milestones are met throughout the project in accordance with the client contract and internal scope of work documentation, while maintaining a positive team atmosphere
• Managing internal project scope of work, budget, timeline, and change orders.
• Taking responsibility for materials planning, budget development and cost control for assigned projects.
• Specifying and procuring equipment and resources needed on the project(s).
• Managing and performing the start-up, commissioning, and validation of manufacturing and packaging equipment and associated support systems.
• Leading the CQV (Commissioning, Qualification and Verification) processes for protocol development and execution.
• Leading internal and/or client management activities for assigned projects:
  • Identifying and addressing complex technical issues and resourcing.
  • Supporting team members; acting as the liaison to the client for discussing changes in scope of work, timeline, or budget.
• Providing frequent/clear/concise project updates to internal/external customers (bi-monthly minimum).
• Utilizing troubleshooting/problem solving skills to drive solutions to equipment/process issues, including FMEA and root cause analysis methodology.
• Providing technical expertise on equipment/processes in manufacturing and packaging areas.
• Leading the team to complete equipment design and specification, vendor bids, vendor selection, and equipment purchasing.
• Interfacing with vendors, when necessary, to ensure vendors will deliver parts, materials, components and equipment on-time, on-budget and to technical specifications.
• Developing and creating technical validation and engineering.
• Developing, writing, and executing engineering studies.
• Developing SOPs/Guidance Documents for project equipment and processes which are highly complex and require advanced engineering to develop.
• Performing Quality investigations (CAPA, Event, Periodic Reviews).
• Maintaining, updating, and communicating project status via dashboards or other customer preferred method.
• Executing projects to internal or customer standards, while also making recommendations to update standards to meet best practices.
• Lead multiple capital/site projects through stage-gating process per the capital steering committee and capital project playbook and/or site scorecard process.
• Assemble and lead project core teams to develop: project scope, schedule, budgets, cash curves, risks, change management and communication plans.
• Collaborate with the project sponsor and key stakeholders to develop the project scope and charter and ensure that projects deliver the expected business cases.
• Work with change management, functional management, sponsors and governance teams to resolve and/or escalate conflicts and issues between projects and/or project teams.
• Monitor and control projects, to ensure project timelines are delivered on time, by utilizing critical path methodology (CPM) and PM tools.
• Present to project steering committees, site scorecard meetings and/or capital steering committees, as required.
• Submit project status reports/dashboards, as required.
• Leverage current risk management tools and techniques to identify, mitigate and manage project risks.
• Ensure project team cohesion, effectiveness and collaboration to ensure project remains within scope and schedule.
• Remove issues, conflicts, and bottlenecks, as required, to ensure project scope and timelines are adhered to.