RCI-ABBV-35823 Project Manager (Capital Construction Projects)

Project Manager III - US-AZ-Tempe

Role summary

• Provides senior project engineering leadership for complex cleanroom and capital-project scope from design development through construction, equipment integration, startup, commissioning, GMP turnover, and closeout.
• The role integrates multidisciplinary technical work, establishes clear scope and interface ownership, and drives timely resolution of risks, decisions, and execution barriers.
• It contributes to safe, compliant, coordinated delivery of Project Fire and the B475 Cleanroom program.

Key responsibilities

• Lead development and maintenance of the project execution plan for assigned scope, including governance of scope, cost, schedule, safety, quality, risk, and change.
• Define and maintain scope boundaries, battery limits, tie-in points, work-package ownership, and Owner/designer/contractor/vendor responsibility and interface matrices.
• Coordinate architectural, process, mechanical, electrical, automation, controls, life-safety, cleanroom, equipment, and utility interfaces.
• Plan and facilitate formal design reviews at required maturity gates, assessing completeness, constructability, operability, maintainability, installation readiness, commissioning readiness, and equipment integration.
• Drive documented disposition and closure of design comments, technical issues, scope gaps, overlaps, conflicts, late decisions, risks, actions, and changes.
• Establish equipment interface requirements, utility loads, connection points, controls interfaces, access and maintenance clearances, vendor-data needs, and installation sequence.
• Identify long-lead equipment decisions, vendor dependencies, and schedule constraints and escalate impacts with mitigation options.
• Provide technical support during construction, coordinate responses to RFIs and field conflicts, and participate in walkdowns and deficiency resolution.
• Integrate mechanical completion, commissioning, startup, qualification support, GMP turnover, and operational handover planning.
• Prepare and transfer complete project engineering records and a final closeout report identifying residual items, risks, owners, and target disposition dates.

What success looks like

• Approved execution plan, responsibility/interface matrix, and scope/battery-limit matrix are established early and kept current.
• Formal design reviews occur at required maturity stages, with no unresolved material item preventing the next approved stage.
• Equipment utility, access, installation, and controls interfaces are documented and coordinated before field execution.
• Installation, energization, commissioning, startup, and turnover prerequisites have accountable owners and forecast dates.
• Mechanical-completion and turnover boundaries are agreed, records are complete, and residual items are formally transferred at closeout.

Required qualifications

Education, training, or equivalent experience

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a closely related technical discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and progressively responsible project engineering experience.

Relevant experience

• Typically 10+ years in capital project engineering, including leadership of multidisciplinary design, construction, commissioning, and turnover on complex projects.
• Documented experience on construction projects with total installed cost exceeding $30 million is required.
• Regulated pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical-device, or similarly controlled manufacturing experience is required.

Required skills or knowledge

• Advanced scope and interface management; multidisciplinary design integration; cleanroom and utility coordination; risk, issue, action, decision, and change control; constructability and readiness reviews; equipment integration; technical writing; executive communication; and practical knowledge of GMP project delivery and turnover.

Required licenses or certifications, if applicable

• No license is universally required.
• A Professional Engineer license is required only when the assigned duties include responsible charge or sealed engineering work.
• Current site-required safety and GMP training must be completed before performing applicable work.

Preferred qualifications

• Professional Engineer license, PMP certification, or equivalent project leadership credential.
• Direct experience with aseptic, biologics, device, or high-containment cleanroom projects.
• Experience integrating automation, process equipment, commissioning, qualification, and validation activities.
• Experience with stage-gate governance and large capital programs in an operating manufacturing site.

Key working relationships

• Project Engineering and project leadership, for scope, governance, decisions, and escalation.
• Design firms and discipline engineers, for multidisciplinary coordination and design maturity.
• Construction management, contractors, and trade partners, for field execution and issue resolution.
• Operations, Facilities, Maintenance, Engineering, Automation, Quality, Validation, CQV, EHS, Procurement, and project controls, for readiness and integrated delivery.
• Equipment and system vendors, for technical data, interfaces, installation, testing, and startup support.

Working conditions or role requirements

• Substantial onsite presence during critical installation, commissioning, startup, and turnover activities.
• Work in active construction and regulated manufacturing environments, requiring PPE, site orientation, and compliance with access and work-control requirements.
• Schedule flexibility may be required for shutdowns, tie-ins, energizations, critical tests, and recovery activities.
• Occasional travel may be required for vendor visits, factory acceptance testing, or design coordination.

Additional information

• This is a senior integration role. It coordinates but does not independently approve changes to GMP requirements, project funding, contractual commitments, or Owner policy.
• Detailed design, construction means and methods, and validation protocol authorship or execution remain with the responsible parties unless specifically assigned.
• Role complexity note: Senior leadership role with broad field and cross-functional accountability across multiple project phases and workstreams.