Senior Operations Project Manager

Permanent position

Toulouse, France

Responsibilities:

• Work with different teams across the operational organization (including facilities and engineering, manufacturing, MSAT, CQV, Quality, etc) to identify and analyze complex problems within the organization.

• Propose innovative and effective solutions to challenges.

• Collaborate with different teams to implement improvement strategies.

• Collect and analyze data to support decisions and recommendations.

• Present reports and recommendations to relevant stakeholders.

• Manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines.

• Follow up on implemented solutions to assess their effectiveness

• Adapt tools and KPIs to follow the resolution of the problem

• Budget, timeline and resource planning to evaluate and to follow

• Adapt quickly to new situations and unforeseen challenges.

• Development of best practices and business processes for Facilities and Engineering: Assist in the establishment of project management best practices and tools as well as business processes to establish efficiencies to project management organization

• Technical shutdown : with the involvement of the facilities and engineering CMMS planner, this role will be in charge ofall planning aspects of the annual technical shutdown and optimization of the cross-functional tasks involved in the technical shutdown

• Allocation of resources (human, technical, financial, etc.) according to the objectives set for F&E, MSAT, CQV activities

• Draft support and organizational documents such as SOPs

• Prepare a global and day today schedule using project management best practices

• Monitor the progress of planned activities, raise alerts if necessary, and propose appropriate schedule corrections for the global and day to day schedule

• Manage organizational and technical contingencies during equipment downtime.

• Work closely with the CMMS planner to manage the activities in the system, charge, duration, etc

• Optimize the different tasks

• Collect and analyze progress dataand draw up dashboards and monitor indicators to facilitate decision-making.

• Take part in shutdown milestones and provide leadership update support.

• Contribute to shutdown analysis and feedback.

• Ensure smooth communication across teams, clients and up to leadership; ensuring regular updates to the appropriate stakeholders; managing escalation and decision-making processes.

• Risk management: Identify project issues and facilitate resolution, conduct risk management and contingency planning

• Adherence to all EHS and GMP regulations

Qualifications and Educational Requirements:

• Engineering degree such as Arts et Métiers

• Minimum ~8 years of previousengineering project management experience in biotech, chemical or pharmaceutical industry. Knowledge of resource management, GMP shutdown procedures, GMP facilities and engineering and Quality Systems

• Experience with MS Office tools, MS Project, Smartsheet

• Experience with lean tools such as Ishikawa, 5W2H, etc

• Certification in Lean Six Sigma:Green orBlack Belt 

• Excellent organizational, rigor,relationship and communication skills

• Motivation to be part of a fast-paced, multi-disciplinary team