Senior Project Manager Building & Infrastructure (m/f/d) / Engineering

Fresenius Kabi AG

$100K — $130K *
Real Estate & Construction
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in process engineering, civil engineering, architecture, building technology, or comparable qualification.
  • 10+ years of project management experience in technical projects, preferably in pharmaceutical, R&D, or regulated environments.
  • Strong track record as an owner's representative or client-side project manager.
  • In-depth knowledge of approval planning, design and construction in GxP-regulated areas.
  • Expertise in cost, deadline, risk, claim, and change management.
  • Comprehensive understanding of technical building systems and user operability requirements.
  • Experience managing external consultants and construction partners across various projects.

Responsibilities

  • Manage technical building and infrastructure projects as an owner’s representative from inception to handover.
  • Clarify and compile project requirements with input from business units and strategic stakeholders.
  • Establish project frameworks including scope, budget, and roles for successful execution.
  • Oversee project phases from approval through construction to commissioning and handover.
  • Coordinate efforts among architects, planners, engineers, contractors, and technical specialists.
  • Ensure compliance with costs, timelines, quality standards, and operator requirements.
  • Develop and maintain project control instruments, including schedules and risk registers.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to shape complex building and infrastructure projects internationally.
  • Engage with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders.
  • Contribute to the development and professionalization of GREM-Engineering.
  • Work within a structured and solution-oriented environment.
  • Be part of future-driven initiatives at Fresenius.
Full Job Description

As a Senior Project Manager Building & Infrastructure Projects (m/f/d), you will be responsible for the management of demanding technical building, infrastructure, laboratory and production-related projects within Group Real Estate Management - Engineering. You will ensure structured preparation, professional management and successful implementation across all project phases. In this key role, you will combine technical understanding, project management expertise and stakeholder orientation in an international and regulated environment.

Your responsibilities:
  • Managing technically oriented building, infrastructure, laboratory and production-related projects as owner’s representative from requirements clarification to handover

  • Compilation and clarification of project requirements from business units, location organisations, transaction management, facility management and strategic real estate requirements in a structured manner

  • Build resilient project set-ups with scope, budget, schedule, roles, responsibilities, decision-making paths, escalation paths, and reporting logic

  • Professionally manage projects through approval, planning, procurement, construction, commissioning support and handover

  • Coordinating and managing architects, specialist planners, engineering service providers, project managers, construction partners, general contractors and technical specialists

  • Ensure costs, deadlines, quality, scope, compliance, technical functionality, sustainability and operator requirements

  • Establish and maintain schedules, budget and forecast structures, risk and opportunity registers as well as change management as central project control instruments

  • Prepare status reports, management updates, steering committee documents as well as decision and escalation templates

  • Ensure orderly mechanical completion, acceptance, claims management, commissioning, documentation and operator handover

  • Further develop standards, methods, templates, quality gates and lessons learned for Building & Infrastructure Projects

Your qualifications:
  • Master’s degree in the field of process engineering, civil engineering, architecture, building technology or a comparable qualification

  • At least ten years of experience in project management of technical projects, ideally in pharmaceutical, R&D, life science, building infrastructure or comparable regulated environments

  • Strong experience as an owner's representative or client-side project manager

  • Very good understanding of approval planning, design & construction, commissioning and handover processes in regulated GxP areas

  • Solid competence in cost, deadline, risk, claim and change management

  • Broad understanding of technical building equipment, infrastructure, user requirements and operability

  • Experience in managing external planners, engineering companies, consultants, construction partners and technical service providers

  • Strong management competence for complex interfaces between business, sites, operating organisations, engineering, facility management, HSE, IT and external project partners

  • Experience in international or matrix-oriented organisations as well as a structured, independent and solution-oriented way of working; combined with the willingness to actively shape the development, professionalisation and further development of GREM-Engineering

  • Very good knowledge of German and English, both written and spoken

Why this role is exciting:

In this position, you will actively shape challenging Building & Infrastructure Projects on the Group side and represent Fresenius' interests vis-à-vis internal stakeholders, external project partners, service providers, landlords, authorities, and experts. You will work at the interface of real estate engineering, business units, site organisations, facility management, technical functions and external partners and contribute to shaping professional delivery governance as well as the establishment and further development of GREM-Engineering for technically oriented real estate projects.

Design challenging Building & Infrastructure Projects at Fresenius with technical standards, a clear project structure and a high level of implementation expertise – become part of #futurefresenius and apply now via our online portal.

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