Sr. (Project) Manager Project Management Engineering & Property Services in Beerse, Belgium

Sr Project Manager Engineering & Property Services

Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Sr Project Manager, located in Beerse (Belgium)

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe good health is the foundation of vibrant lives, thriving communities and forward progress. As the world’s largest and most broadly-based healthcare company, we are committed to using our reach and size for good. We strive to improve access and affordability, create healthier communities, and put a healthy mind, body and environment within reach of everyone, everywhere. Every day, our more than 130,000 employees across the world are blending heart, science and ingenuity to profoundly change the trajectory of health for humanity.

At Engineering & Property Services (E&PS) we take care of all J&J buildings in Belgium providing services from Real Estate, Engineering & Strategic Project Delivery to Facilities Management. We have a profound influence on the entire J&J Enterprise, providing innovative workplaces where our employees can collaborate and grow, and delivering flexible site solutions which enable our business to best serve our important customers and patients.

The Sr Project Manager is accountable for the performance of assigned projects on the Beerse site, leading projects thru our standard Project management standards FPX (Flawless Project Execution) and IDEA (ideation, definition, execution and assessment phases). The major activities of the project manager are: driving innovation to ensure safety and appropriate quality, translate the need of our internal clients in a technical solution, using learning adoption internally and externally, coordinate and align a team of internal and external project members, ensure that our standards and agency regulations like FDA are followed. The Sr Project Manager will lead the E&PS Beerse Project Delivery team composed of 6 Project Leads and will report into the E&PS Director Project Management for Belgium.

The best candidate for this role has experience in leading a team, and has experience in end to end execution of capital projects with a continuous focus on Construction Safety. They have good communication skills and knowledge of process engineering, HVAC and E&I. Knowledge of the pharma or medical devices is preferable. You are eager to learn continuously and like to work with many colleagues and partners across other functional areas who are involved in your projects. Making good relationships and align team members is something that gives you energy.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the Beerse Project Management Team in executing Projects (ranging from 1M€ to 50M€) from concept to post implementation stage in accordance with our standard IDEA process.

• Drive the team towards a Construction Safety culture, acting as Construction Safety Champion, partnering with EHS ensuring that standards are implemented and portfolio safety metrics are met.

• Lead portfolio performance ensuring that cost, schedule, and cash-flow targets are met.

• Take charge in aligning with business partners to identify business needs, devise appropriate business solutions and prioritize projects. Serve as the key contact for urgent matters and critical issues.

• Guide the team in translating project definition to a design ensuring that elements of environment, health, safety, quality and life cycle are covered while maintaining the focus on constructability & construction safety.

• Ensure adherence to policies, procedures, statutory and regulatory requirements and customer specifications.

• Lead portfolio planning and manage project’s resources, using internal and external partners capabilities to adequately and timely resource each project.

• Define the communication plan and advise Business Management, sponsor, user and other partners on a regular basis by creating, maintaining and presenting reports on project status (scope, budget, planning, risks and mitigations and overall performance against baseline targets)

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent through experience

• Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent

• Proficient in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint required

Preferred

• Master’s Degree in Engineering

• Familiarity with J&J PM approaches (FPX & IDEA Project Delivery Process)

Experience, Skills & Knowledge

Required:

• Minimum of 10 years of Project Management experience.

• Minimum of 2 yrs people leading experience.

• Prior experience with capital projects in the industry

• Ability to lead and empower remote and virtual teams and partners

• Understands business needs and can translate these to engineering concepts

• Process-oriented, process knowledgeable

• Good listening and problem-solving skills when handling potential conflicts within regions when implementing global standards and guidelines. Understanding sophisticated technical/regulatory issues impacting products.

• Ability to develop and maintain collaborative partnerships at all levels within the organization, internally (FM/MAM/RE) and with Business partners (Finance/ E&D/ Operations)

• Knowledge of Project Controls in cost and schedule development, financial assessments and managing of budget and schedule

• Manufacturing experience in FDA or other regulated environments from design through startup is an advantage.

• Experience on contracting and negotiation

Other

Language Requirements: Fluency in English and Dutch languages

Location: Beerse (Belgium)

Travel Requirements: This position will require up to 10% domestic travel.

Diversity & Inclusion

Johnson & Johnson is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability