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Senior Project Management Consultant
Job summary
A leading consultancy firm is seeking a Project Management Consultant with extensive experience in packaging and production equipment projects within regulated industries. The role involves overseeing the delivery of capital packing line projects, developing execution plans, ensuring compliance, and managing vendor relationships. Ideal candidates will have strong stakeholder management skills and a degree in engineering. This is a full-time position based in Canada, New Brunswick.
Qualifications
- Proven experience in delivering packaging or production equipment projects.
- Knowledge of packing line equipment like cartoners and serializers.
- Experience leading a project team in regulated industry.
Responsibilities
- Deliver capital packing line scope for project.
- Develop project execution plans and schedules.
- Ensure compliance with engineering standards and regulations.
- Review vendor design information and specifications.
- Support equipment qualification in partnership with validation team.
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PM Group – Stocksfield, England, United Kingdom
Title: Project Management Consultant
Position Type: Contract
Location: Northumberland
Categories: Project Management, Engineering
PM Group requires a Packing Lines Delivery Project Manager with experience in secondary pharmaceutical projects to lead a client team based in Northumberland.
- Responsible for the delivery of the capital packing line scope for the project
- Develop detailed project execution plans, schedules and risk register
- Ensure compliance with site engineering standards, GMP, SHE, and environmental regulations
- Ensures scope is delivered on schedule and within cost parameters
- Feed project updates and KPIs into overall project governance structure
- Review and approve vendor design information, equipment specifications, and vendor drawings
- Lead FAT (Factory Acceptance Testing), SAT (Site Acceptance Testing), and commissioning
- Coordinate installation contractors, OEMs, and internal delivery team
- Support equipment qualification (DQ, IQ, OQ, OQ) in partnership with validation team
- Support Operational Start-up Leader to ensure seamless integration of new packing lines into production systems
- Deliver lines capable of achieving agreed OEE, throughput, and quality performance KPIs
- Single point of contact with OEMs to ensure delivery of technical and contractual requirements
- Single point of contact with facility and installation contractors to ensure correct and timely hook‑up and integration of the packing lines with utilities and the facility
- Ensures equipment standardisation across the packing lines
- Drives lessons learned and continuous improvement across capital project delivery, including opportunities across the wider project
- Degree level engineering qualification or similar equivalent experience
- Proven experience of delivering packaging equipment or production equipment projects in a regulated industry (Pharmaceuticals, FMCG, or similar)
- Knowledge of packing line equipment (cartoners, labellers, blister machines, case packers, vision systems, serialisation, etc.)
- Experience of leading and coordinating a project team through design reviews, vendor acceptance tests, and commissioning
- Experience of managing equipment vendors, including those outside the UK
- Experience with commissioning, validation, and GMP compliance
- Strong stakeholder management and contractor supervision skills
- Formal Project Management qualification (Prince2, PMP, or similar) is desirable but not essential if a track‑record of capital project delivery can be demonstrated
This role is believed to be inside IR35.
Mid‑Senior level
Full‑time
Project Management and Information Technology
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