Project Manager / Automation Engineer (Pharma Engineering Drug Product)

Responsibilities

Profile

• Process and System Support: Support for production plants with a very high degree of automation, which are highly networked with each other and with higher-level ITOT systems.
• Holistic Project Execution: Independent planning, control, and execution of automation projects across all project phases – with full responsibility for technical solutions, quality, milestones, deadlines, and timely showstopper resolution.
• Financial and Resource Management: Creation of business cases, support for CAPEX/project budget requests, and continuous budget monitoring in accordance with current forecast and reporting processes; including demand-oriented resource planning.
• Team Leadership and Collaboration: Coordination and leadership of interdisciplinary teams comprising internal and external employees, as well as partners and suppliers.
• Consulting and Strategy: Proactive support of production operations in defining and initiating investment projects, including cost estimates, schedules, and evaluation of new technologies.
• Risk and Quality Management: Early identification of project risks, development of effective risk mitigation measures, and consistent adherence to project management methods and standards.
• Stakeholder Management and Reporting: Transparent information flow as well as ongoing reporting and progress monitoring using clear metrics for stakeholders and steering committees.
• Process Optimization and Operational Support: Successful project engineering to support production operations, as well as continuous analysis and optimization of existing processes to increase efficiency.
• Compliance and Audits: Active support during audits and inspections by internal departments and authorities in the GMP and EHS (SGU) environment.
• Completed vocational training or degree as a technician/engineer in automation, electrical engineering, technical computer science, or similar.
• Sound professional experience in the field of production automation, preferably with a pharmaceutical background.
• Very good user knowledge in the area of automation software from Siemens S7, TIA, WinCC.
• Sound experience in the GMP and GAMP environment.
• High social competence, teamwork skills, and very good communication and coordination skills, including when dealing with stakeholders and at all levels.
• Willingness to work in an agile, self-organized work environment.
• Very good German language skills are required; English and French skills are an advantage.
• Enthusiasm as well as self-reliant, customer-oriented way of working.
• Independence, initiative, and integrity, as well as a very high level of service orientation with a strong sense of duty.
• Questioning conventional ways of thinking and openness to new, creative ideas – also outside of usual fields (out-of-the-box thinking).

Project details

• Start: sofort
• Location: Aargau, Basilea Campagna, CH, CH
• Languages: German

Source notes

• Interesting tasks in a multinational environment
• A renowned company with an excellent reputation