Novonesis · 1 day ago
Capex Project Manager
Novonesis is dedicated to creating biosolutions that tackle humanity’s biggest challenges. As a Capex Project Manager, you will oversee capital projects, ensuring they meet scope, schedule, and budget while fostering strong stakeholder engagement and compliance with regulations.
BiopharmaBiotechnologyTest and Measurement
Responsibilities
Directly manages capital projects across the Americas, overseeing planning, execution, and handover—including scope, schedule, budget (USD 200K–5M), safety, staffing, and procurement—with autonomy and strong stakeholder engagement
Aligning project scope across Operations teams, global colleagues, and full project team to ensure user requirements are met and solutions comply with regulations, standards, and best practices
Proactively managing schedule to ensure integration with the full project deliverables
Coordinating, supervising and directing efforts of all involved such as internal and external suppliers and resources, contractors and consultants
Conducting onsite construction audits to ensure safety and quality standards, fostering accountability and effective team delegation
Preparing regular oral and written reports of capital project progress and status. Maintain the appropriate flow of information and communication to project steering committees and other stakeholders. Facilitates monthly steering committee meetings for the key support site for CapEx projects
Ensuring project compliance with purchasing policies, safety and sanitation standards, and environmental regulations by providing engineering guidance and assessing impacts of process and equipment changes
Ensuring project documentation (e.g. as-build drawings, equipment documentation, local regulatory documentation, maintenance documentation) is updated at handover of project, and stored according to local guidelines, accessible and searchable in the future
Qualification
Required
B.S. in an engineering discipline or strongly related field
5+ years of relevant project management experience in the processing industry
Thorough knowledge of several engineering and technical disciplines
Experience in construction of various technical objectives in manufacturing environments
Proven project management skills in schedule, scope and budget management
Good organizational skills and effective written and oral communication skills in both local language and English
Ability to travel up to 15%
Preferred
Project management certification such as PMP preferred
Benefits
401(k) with up to a 9% company contribution!
Minimum of 3 weeks' vacation plus 12 holidays and 2 weeks of Wellness Time
Health, Dental, Vision & Life insurance
Healthcare savings account option with generous employer contribution
Employee assistance program
Parental leave
Tuition reimbursement
All benefits begin on your first day!
Company
Novonesis
Novonesis is a biotechnology company that provides transformative biosolutions for businesses.
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