Job title: Senior Project Manager – Facilities – United States Sourcing Hub
Company: Novo Nordisk
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Senior Project Manager – Facilities – United States Sourcing Hub
Facility: Manufacturing
Location:
Clayton, NC, US
About the Department
At Novo Nordisk, we are helping to improve the quality of life for millions of people worldwide. For more than 100 years, we have led the way in diabetes care. Being part of Novo Nordisk allows our employees to embark on life-changing careers, and the opportunity to help improve the quality of life for millions of people around the world.
In NC, we operate three pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities that are responsible for fulfilling different steps in our injectable and oral treatment supply chains. Our newer Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) facility in Clayton, NC sits on 825,000 square-feet of state-of-the-art equipment, and houses the Fermentation, Recovery and Purification in the production of ingredients for Novo Nordisk’s innovative oral products. At API, you’ll join a global network of manufacturing professionals who are passionate about what they do.
What we offer you:
- Leading pay and annual performance bonus for all positions
- All employees enjoy generous paid time off including 14 paid holidays
- Health Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance – effective day one
- Guaranteed 8% 401K contribution plus individual company match option
- Family Focused Benefits including 12 weeks paid parental & 6 weeks paid family medical leave
- Free access to Novo Nordisk-marketed pharmaceutical products
- Tuition Assistance – reimbursement up to $10,000 annually
- Life & Disability Insurance
- Employee Referral Awards
At Novo Nordisk, you will find opportunities, resources, and mentorship to help grow and build your career. Are you ready to realize your potential? Join Team Novo Nordisk and help us make what matters.
The Position
Oversee capital build-out and process improvement projects from design through regulatory preparation with a focus on Operations involvement. Serve as project point person/lead with specialized subgroups from various internal and external disciplines. Accountable for building the strategic organization to support the design, construction and implementation of all new buildings, facilities and utilities through release and turnover to system owner. This is a key role integrated into the project management and execution team accountable for managing strategic projects through oversight of a large project team to include NNPILP employees & contingent workers (contractors).
Relationships
Reports to Project Director.
Essential Functions
- Design, establish, & maintain an organizational structure & staffing to effectively accomplish the goals & objectives of the project, as well as recruit, train, oversee, & deploy technical & functional staff
- Oversee one or more complex projects originating within the Operations Department (Manufacturing, Process, Facilities Engineering, Project Management/cLEAN, etc.) and acting as conduit from project conception through regulatory submission
- Assist with steering committee leadership on large multidisciplinary projects
- Ensure consistency with strategies as communicated from senior management and liaise with customers at project level to include the project sponsor and senior management to drive timely activity, integration, productivity, and efficient use of resources to meet requirements
- Confirm all compliance requirements and guide project appropriately to ensure job duties and responsibilities are being performed in a compliant and ethical manner; in accordance with all applicable healthcare laws, regulations, and industry codes
- Provide support and project management training for staff
- Facilitate communication as appropriate to all involved and effectively manage individuals with a vested interest in the project or initiative
- Establish appropriate Key Success Indicators and manage trade-offs between scope, quality, time, and cost
- Track and report progress and forecast final targets
- Proactively manage and communicate risks to prevent delay &cost impacts to projects, to include preventing critical path or unexpected items from derailing project through documenting and communicating as appropriate to management staff
- Document, track and assess impact of all changes in project parameters as well as all obstacles, delays, and claims
- Ensure closure of documentation according to project milestones and archive appropriate records
- Direct and lead the project safety team ensuring project-related execution is performed under Novo Nordisk EHS standards, to include ensuring external contractors are also operating under the same standards
- Follow all safety & environmental requirements in the performance of duties
- Other accountabilities, as assigned
Physical Requirements
May move equipment &/or supplies weighing up to 33 pounds within the facility using various body positions. May be required to be on your feet for up to a 12-hour shift. May required corrected vision to 20/20 or 20/25 based on role. May require color vision based on role. May require the ability to work in loud noise environments with hearing protections.
Development of People
Supervisory, ensure that reporting personnel have Individual Development Plans (IDP), with annual goals and measurements that are consistent with the priorities of the business, and that interim reviews are held so that their work is focused on those priorities, and they understand their level of accountability for results and the measurement process. Ensure that the IDP forms include completed learning and aspiration plans and are in place for all reporting personnel to enable the achievement of goals and capability to assume increased levels of responsibility. Manage the application and communication of all Novo Nordisk policies, procedures, and Novo Nordisk Way.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Science, Project Management, Construction Management, or relevant field of study from an accredited university required
- Master’s degree in Engineering, Science, Project Management, Construction Management, or relevant field of study from an accredited university preferred
- PMP (Project Management Professional) certification preferred
- Minimum of ten (10) years of proven & successful project management and/or construction management experience required
- Minimum of seven (7) years of direct supervisory experience required
- Minimum of seven (7) years of related experience in a cGMP regulated pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry required
- Knowledge of organizational structure, staffing patterns & job design required
- Budget preparation & fiscal management experience required
- Ability to read/review design drawings CAD (Computer Aided Design) with a basic understanding of P&ID’s (Piping and Instrumentation Diagram) required
- Thorough understanding of technical documents such as URS (User Requirement Specification), SAT (Site Acceptance Testing), FAT (Factory Acceptance Test), & Validation Protocols required
- Goal oriented and action focused, pragmatic and self-disciplined, accomplished at project planning, organizing, communication and team motivation required
- Independent and responsive to input, diplomacy and persuasion, ability to find common ground and resolution required
- Proven success managing both people and projects required
- Proven track record of being a team player, driving team participation, maintaining team accountability required
We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.
At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.
Novo Nordisk is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal laws, rules or regulations.
If you are interested in applying to Novo Nordisk and need special assistance or an accommodation to apply, please call us at 1-855-411-5290. This contact is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.
Expected salary: $10000 per year
Location: Clayton, NC
Job date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 03:42:27 GMT
