Qualifications:
- 3+ years of relevant experience within project engineering, project management, automation, IT/OT, or manufacturing readiness.
- Experience coordinating multiple technical workstreams within a regulated manufacturing environment.
- Strong understanding of project execution, milestone tracking, risk management, issue resolution, dependencies, and operational readiness.
- Ability to develop KPIs, project trackers, management updates, change requests, service tickets, and knowledge articles.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work effectively across technical and business stakeholders.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving capabilities.
- Ability to independently drive follow-up and maintain accountability across multiple stakeholders and workstreams.
Pluses:
- Pharmaceutical or biotechnology manufacturing experience.
- Experience supporting process qualification and/or production ramp-up.
- Familiarity with ServiceNow.
- Familiarity with QualityDocs or similar controlled quality-documentation systems.
- Experience with change control processes.
- Experience working across Automation and IT/OT organizations.
- Previous experience supporting manufacturing or facility startup/readiness activities.
Job Description:
We are seeking an Automation Engineering Project Manager / Engineer to support operational readiness, process qualification readiness, and production ramp-up activities in Clayton, NC. The resource will work across Automation, Engineering, IT/OT, Quality, Operations, and project teams to drive readiness activities, track milestones and dependencies, identify gaps, manage risks, and provide clear reporting to project leadership.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop a strong understanding of project scope, execution status, milestones, dependencies, and outstanding readiness activities.
- Coordinate across Automation, Engineering, IT/OT, Quality, Operations, and project teams to gather status, clarify requirements, and align timelines.
- Identify gaps impacting operational readiness, process qualification readiness, and production ramp-up.
- Build and maintain project KPIs, readiness trackers, and management-level status reporting.
- Clearly communicate completed work, ongoing activities, unresolved issues, risks, upcoming milestones, and decisions requiring leadership attention.
- Maintain project risks, issues, actions, decisions, and dependencies while escalating high-impact or overdue items.
- Draft and coordinate change requests and supporting documentation within QualityDocs.
- Create, manage, and follow up on IT tickets, ServiceNow knowledge-base articles, and standard changes.
- Establish and maintain an integrated readiness tracker covering owners, timelines, dependencies, risks, status, and required actions.
- Support closeout activities, documentation handover, open-item transition, and knowledge transfer.
- Perform additional project and engineering activities assigned within the scope of the engagement.
