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At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity.

Learn more at https: //www.jnj.com/

J& J Innovative Medicine is recruiting for a Project Manager Engineering & Property Services reporting to the Director Project Management EMEA and to be based in Beerse or Geel (Belgium).

At Engineering & Property Services (E& PS) we take care of all J& J buildings in Belgium providing services from Real Estate, Engineering & Strategic Project Delivery to Facilities Management. We have a profound influence on the entire J& J Enterprise, providing innovative workplaces where our employees can collaborate and grow, and delivering flexible site solutions which enable our business to best serve our important customers and patients.

The Project Manager is accountable for the performance of assigned projects on the Beerse site, leading projects thru our standard Project management standards FPX (Flawless Project Execution) and IDEA (ideation, definition, execution and assessment phases). The major activities of the project manager are: driving innovation to ensure safety and appropriate quality, translate the need of our internal clients in a technical solution, using learning adoption internally and externally, coordinate and align a team of internal and external project members, ensure that our standards and agency regulations like FDA are followed. The Project Manager will join the E& PS Project delivery team composed of 10 project and Construction Managers reporting to the Sr E& PS Project Manager.

The best candidate for this role has specific expertise in Projects related to Heat transition projects, such as modern Warm water network technology, sustainable energy, geothermal energy, etc… and generally experience of leading end to end capital projects. They have good communication skills and knowledge of process engineering, HVAC and E& I. Knowledge of the pharma or medical devices is preferable. You are eager to learn continuously and like to work with many colleagues and partners across other functional areas who are involved in your projects. Making good relationships and align team members is something that gives you energy.

Key responsibilities

• Successfully handle multiple projects ranging from 500k€ to 10MM€ simultaneously and have program management responsibilities for a portfolio worth 20MM€ per year.
• Focus on Design& Execution of projects related to Heat transition, such as Warm water networks, sustainable energy projects, optimizing use of geothermal energy, etc
• Acts as Project Lead on Projects from concept to post implementation stage in accordance with our standard IDEA process.
• Lead portfolio performance ensuring that cost, schedule, and cash-flow targets are met.
• Take charge in aligning with business partners to identify business needs, devise appropriate business solutions and prioritize projects. Serve as the key contact for urgent matters and critical issues.
• Translate the project definition in a design ensuring that elements of environment, health, safety, quality and life cycle are covered while maintaining the focus on constructability
• Lead Capital Appropriation Requests (CAR) preparation, socialization, and submission, enabling fast and smooth approval in alignment to corporate funding procedures.
• Ensure adherence to policies, procedures, statutory and regulatory requirements and customer specifications.
• Develop the project execution plan, including relevant execution strategies for design, construction, procurement, risks etc and adjust as needed during the project lifecycle.
• Lead portfolio planning and manage project's resources, using internal and external partners capabilities to adequately and timely resource each project.
• Define the communication plan and advise sponsor, user and other partners on a regular basis by creating, maintaining and presenting reports on project status (scope, budget, planning, risks and mitigations and overall performance against baseline targets)
• Lead a Construction Safety culture, acting as Construction Safety Champion, partnering with EHS ensuring that standards are implemented and portfolio safety metrics are met.
• Lead Project Close Out activities including operational handover, documentation archiving, financial project closure and value delivered, collation of benchmarking and lessons learned opportunities.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent through experience
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent
• Proficient in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint required

Preferred

• Special expertise in Projects related to Heat transition projects, such as modern Warm water network technology, sustainable energy, geothermal energy, etc….
• Master’s Degree in Engineering
• Familiarity with J& J PM approaches (FPX & IDEA Project Delivery Process)

Experience, Skills & Knowledge

Required:

• Minimum of 10 years of Project Management experience.
• Prior experience with capital projects in the industry
• Understands business needs and can translate these to engineering concepts
• Process-oriented, process knowledgeable
• Ability to lead and empower remote and virtual teams and partners
• Good listening and problem-solving skills when handling potential conflicts within regions when implementing global standards and guidelines. Understanding sophisticated technical/regulatory issues impacting products.
• Ability to develop and maintain collaborative partnerships at all levels within the organization, internally (FM/MAM/RE) and with Business partners (Finance/ E& D/ Operations)
• Knowledge of Project Controls in cost and schedule development, financial assessments and managing of budget and schedule
• Manufacturing experience in FDA or other regulated environments from design through startup is an advantage.
• Experience on contracting and negotiation

Other

Language Requirements: Fluency in English and Dutch languages

Travel Requirements: This position will require up to 10% domestic travel.