Capital Projects Director

Here you’ll have the chance to create a significant difference to patients’ lives. With science at its heart, this is the place where breakthroughs born in the lab become transformative medicines – for the world’s most complex diseases. 

This exciting opportunity is for an experienced Capital Project Director to be a part our Global Engineering Team to lead the development of major capital projects in the Americas. This Capital Project Director will be based in our Gaithersburg, MD location. 

The Project Director is accountable for the successful delivery of the project and responsible for ensuring that the business benefit is delivered. This means delivering the project safely and compliantly, to the agreed scope, in the agreed timescale, for the agreed cost budget and spending plan, applying the agreed resources and delivering to the predefined quality requirements. The Project Director acts directly on behalf of the sponsor to take forward the project scope and is the focal point for delivering customer needs. The Project Director manages the project team members, customers, and all external partners contributing to project’s success to ensure that the requirements of all project stages are met in accordance with AstraZeneca Capital Project Delivery Process demonstrating the company leadership behaviors. 

Roles and Responsibilities 

• Initiate the project effectively, develop and obtain agreement on the project charter
• Develop the Project Management Plan, maintain it, communicate it and implement it effectively 
• Ensure clarity of and communicate project roles and responsibilities 
• Manage project risk pro‐actively 
• Ensure appropriate level of governance is in place
• Ensure project