DescriptionWe are seeking a Project Engineer with CAPEX experience in manufacturing including capacity or technology improvements (vertical start-up, operational readiness, consolidation, relocation). The Project Engineer will support client transformations where capital investment, operational excellence, and business transformation intersect. This role is ideal for someone who can lead capital projects while embedding OpEx principles, including improving safety, quality, cost, and delivery.
JOB DESCRIPTION
In this role your focus will be:
- Ensuring successful delivery outcomes and value realization across end-to-end or phase-driven projects, from initiation and scoping through scale-up and commissioning
- Management of projects within established scope, schedule, and budget while meeting and exceeding IPM project management standards
- Acting as a trusted advisor to client leaders regarding delivery, translating business strategy into executable capital roadmaps, facilitating steering committees, core teams, and managing vendor relationships, and diagnosing capital and project management pain points and designing practical, scalable solutions
- Leading or supporting end-to-end capital project lifecycle activities including opportunity identification and business case justification, Front-End Planning (FEL), scope definition, and design readiness, and realization across execution, commissioning, and startup
- Embedding Lean, OpEx, and Continuous Improvement principles into capital planning and execution while aligning capital projects to manufacturing excellence
- Leading capital initiatives in GMP-regulated environments and partner with Quality, Validation, and Regulatory teams to ensure compliant, right-first-time delivery
- Integrating capital projects into site OpEx and quality maturity models
- Supporting growth, automation, sustainability, and productivity investments and ensure capital solutions support plant throughput, labor efficiency, and operational stability while minimizing downtime and disruption to ongoing operations
- Proactively identifying execution risks and leading mitigation planning
- Driving capability building through coaching client project managers, engineers, and operators, developing capital playbooks, standards, templates, and OpEx-aligned delivery frameworks, and supporting organizational readiness for new assets, systems, and processes
- Creating and presenting both executive-level and detailed updates throughout an engagement and within a final project readout deck
DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
The successful candidate for this position should have the following skills and experience:
- A bachelor's degree with a preference in Engineering, Construction Management, Operations Management, Project Management or similar (e.g., Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management)
- At least 6 years of professional experience delivering successful capital projects within consulting or matrixed enterprise environments including capacity or technology improvements (vertical start-up, operational readiness, consolidation, relocation)
- Have a strong foundation in capital project management best practices and be well versed in operational excellence methodologies
- Demonstrated experience across Life Sciences, Consumer, and/or Industrial sectors
- Experience working directly with senior stakeholders, acting as the owner's representative and trusted advisor
- Be dedicated to delivering high-quality outcomes focused on scope, budget, and schedule (Project Management Professional, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Professional Engineer, and APICS certifications are a plus)
- Have familiarity with GMP, FDA, OSHA, ISO, and environmental requirements
- Willingness to travel based on client needs
If you think you can work with high-caliber colleagues on complex and high-profile projects, we'd like to hear from you. In return, we'll provide you with the opportunities, support, and training to develop your career to the fullest of your capabilities; it's not just what you've done that's interesting to us - it's what you are capable of achieving.
IPM's hybrid work environment requires a minimum of three days in the office. The specific days are flexible and may vary depending on project schedules and meetings. On-site locations may also vary. In addition, we follow our clients' guidance on on-site requirements, so the minimum number of days in the office may increase depending on the client and project assignment.
