Project Manager

Interested in a career that matters?

Are you ready to lead complex facility and infrastructure projects from concept through commissioning and handover?

Join a team responsible for delivering projects that support site growth, operational excellence, compliance, and business performance. Working closely with internal functions and external partners, you will help ensure that projects are delivered safely, efficiently, and with a smooth transition into operations.

The role & your impact

As Project Manager, you will lead multidisciplinary capital projects throughout the full project lifecycle, from initiation and planning to design, execution, commissioning, and handover.

This is an individual-contributor role with significant responsibility for project scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, and stakeholder alignment. You will work across technical, operational, regulatory, and commercial areas to deliver facilities that meet business needs and applicable standards.

Your key responsibilities in this role

• Lead the full project lifecycle, including initiation, planning, design, execution, commissioning, and handover.
• Translate user requirement specifications into clear project plans, schedules, budgets, deliverables, and success criteria.
• Manage project scope, schedule, cost, quality, and risk to deliver projects on time, within budget, and to specification.
• Coordinate internal stakeholders across Production, Quality, EHS, Procurement, Finance, and user functions, as well as external design institutes, contractors, suppliers, and consultants.
• Monitor progress, identify risks and issues, and drive effective mitigation or recovery plans.
• Lead project meetings, follow up on actions and decisions, prepare status reports, and escalate significant deviations with practical recommendations.

What you’ll need to be successful in this role

• A bachelor’s degree or higher in chemical, mechanical, electrical, civil, intelligent manufacturing, pharmaceutical engineering, project management, or a related field.
• At least three years of industrial project management experience, preferably gained on the owner’s side in food, pharmaceutical, biotech, cleanroom, or another regulated-facility environment.
• Strong knowledge of project management across scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, procurement, and stakeholder management.
• Familiarity with GMP-related facility requirements and industrial construction and installation practices.
• English proficiency sufficient for day-to-day project management, technical and commercial communication, and reporting.
• Strong stakeholder-management, coordination, communication, problem-solving, and risk-control capabilities.
• The ability to align multiple parties, resolve conflicts, exercise sound judgment, and communicate clearly.

Additional skills & interests we value

• Experience with fermentation, recovery, spray drying, or packaging processes.
• Experience delivering large, multidisciplinary capital projects.
• An interest in technical compliance, operational excellence, and continuously improving project delivery.

What we offer you

You will join a collaborative project environment where you can contribute across the complete project lifecycle and work with a broad range of internal specialists and external partners.

The role offers the opportunity to lead technically and operationally complex projects with a direct connection to site development, compliance, safety, quality, and business performance.

Working conditions

This position is based on-site at the Taicang plant.

Our purpose guides the way

In Novonesis, we know that solutions rooted in biology can help solve humanity’s biggest challenges. Since we began more than a century ago, this has been our guide. It’s how we've gotten so far. And it’s how we'll impact the future. Now, more than ever, the world needs change. And with biosolutions, the possibilities for transformation are endless. If our purpose resonates with you, we encourage you to apply.

Opportunities for everyone

We are committed to an inclusive recruitment process and equal opportunity for all applicants. Therefore we ask you to apply without a cover letter or photo and instead include a few sentences in your CV explaining your motivation for applying.

We make all employment decisions based on business needs and welcome candidates with a wide range of backgrounds, including ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status.

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If this position isn’t the right fit, you may still find other opportunities with us. You’re welcome to explore open roles or create a job agent to stay connected with future opportunities at novonesis.com/Career

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