Principal Engineer / Senior Principal Engineer, Project Management

Description

Principal Engineer, Project Management Description: As an employee of Boehringer Ingelheim, you will actively contribute to the discovery, development, and delivery of our products to our patients and customers. Our global presence provides opportunity for all employees to collaborate internationally, offering visibility and opportunity to directly contribute to the companies' success. We realize that our strength and competitive advantage lie with our people. We support our employees in several ways to foster a healthy working environment, meaningful work,  mobility, networking, and work-life balance. Our competitive compensation and benefit programs reflect Boehringer Ingelheim's high regard for our employees. The Principal Engineer, Project Management will develop and manage the execution of capital projects so as to maintain budget, schedule, safety record, and project quality.

Senior Principal Engineer, Project Management Description: As an employee of Boehringer Ingelheim, you will actively contribute to the discovery, development, and delivery of our products to our patients and customers. Our global presence provides an opportunity for all employees to collaborate internationally, offering visibility and the opportunity to directly contribute to the company's success. We realize that our strength and competitive advantage lie with our people. We support our employees in several ways to foster a healthy working environment, meaningful work, mobility, networking, and work-life balance. Our competitive compensation and benefit programs reflect Boehringer Ingelheim's high regard for our employees. The Senior Principal Engineer, Project Management will drive and execute key strategic projects - related to process engineering, project execution, project coordination, project reporting, project qualification, project start-up, and project training. This role interacts with key stakeholders (global leaders, local leaders, and local GFE/operations) to ensure smooth project transition from design, to build, to qualify, to train, and to start-up.

Duties & Responsibilities

Senior Principal Engineer, Project Management Duties & Responsibilities:

Project Design: Drives the process engineering activities related to key strategic projects - this includes leading the engineering efforts for both internal and external engineering.
Drives the facility engineering efforts related to utilities, power, and equipment layout.
Leads the automation efforts for the strategic projects that ensures the equipment is integrated and functions as one unit.
Ensures the process, facility, and automation engineering comes together successful to meet overall strategic aspects of the project (headcount, efficiency, productivity, etc.)Project Planning/Tracking/Reporting: Actively steers project timely related to engineering planning, execution, and communication  
Oversees the overall engineering execution between internal/external stakeholders.
Ensures the engineering budget is managed, steered related to cost, timing, and expected level of quality.
Routinely manages/reports the project to ensure full transparency, have clear milestones, synchronize the engineering tasks with other stakeholders related to quality, costs, sourcing, etc.
Communicates clearly with site leadership team, project team, and global stakeholders project status, risks, mitigations, next steps.
Project Execution: Ensures engineering execution continues as planned.
Steers engineering to ensure risks/delays are understood, mitigated and communicated.
As needed, organizes key stakeholders to facilitate solutions to keep project moving forward.
Drives the execution to ensure the deliverables are clear and articulated (if needed use tier board or similar visual performance process).
Project Qualification: Ensures the project is qualified per design related to equipment, capacity, capabilities, quality, automation, layout, efficiency, productivity.
Aligns with key stakeholders to ensure right level of qualifications are performed.
Ensures documentation, change control, and digital tracking requirements are completed.
Partners with operations/quality/sourcing and any other necessary function to ensure qualification process is aligned, clear, and completed per expectations.
Project Start-up: Ensures the project start-up goes smoothly between engineering deliverables, qualification, expectations, and operations team.
Supports operational training of the project.
Ensures both classroom and hands-on training is performed at a level to perform timely and seamless start-up.
Partners with operational leaders to support shift work (if required) to support training/start-up/documentation. Includes creating/reviewing/approving documentation of batch records/procedure.
Leadership: May directly and/or indirectly lead up to seven (7) Barceloneta personnel connected to engineering, operations, or other pertinent area necessary to steer successful project execution.

Requirements

Principal Engineer, Project Management Requirements:
BS degree in construction-related engineering (engineering management, civil, mechanical, etc.) or related field from accredited engineering school and four to seven (4-7) years of relevant engineering experience.
Masters in Engineering or MBA preferred.
PMP and/or EIT or PE or strong desire to pursue preferred.
Planning organization, coordinating, and developing projects, budgets.
Strong organization, leadership, communication skills, presentation, and negotiation skills.
Obtaining bids, coordinating construction projects for facilities and/or equipment repairs, negotiate contracts, discuss projects.
Strong team orientation and ability to work cross functionally with various groups such as Safety, Quality, Maintenance, Purchasing, Industrial Development, R&D, and Manufacturing.
Abreast of new developments in Engineering fields that pertain to facilities, utilities, and various other operations throughout the plant.
Scheduling capital activities to meet production needs.
Ability to execute multi-discipline assignments and ability to master new skills quickly.
Coordinating construction activities to minimize impact on production.
Effective interpersonal skills with a diverse group of individuals at all organizational levels.
Proficiency in relevant computer software and programs, associated with Engineering (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Visio, Microsoft Project, and AutoCAD or equivalent programs).
Attention to detail and commitment to customer service.
Strong ability to communicate verbally and in writing effectively with all levels of corporate and local management and employees.
Ability to plan, schedule, organize, prioritize, and coordinate project activities as activities impact strategic and operation strategies.
Ability to visualize a finished product.
Understanding and practice basic financial & accounting methods and procedures.
Ability to understand, evaluate, and implement validation strategies in tandem with project activities.

Desired Skills, Experience and Abilities

• Experience with cGMP compliance or related quality systems.
• Experience with Lean and Six Sigma tools and methodologies.
• Working knowledge of the current editions of industry specific regulations.