Title: Project Manager - Packaging

Position Type: Contract

Location: North East

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.

Responsibilities

* 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

Qualifications

* 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) desirable but not essential if a track-record of capital project delivery can be demonstrated

* The role will require travel to equipment vendors in the EU for design reviews, progress visits, and factory acceptance testing (FAT). The monthly travel % will vary depending on project phase, peaking at FATs, where multiple one to two week trips will be required, sometimes during the summer holiday period