[Hiring] Project Manager Life Sciences @Eichleay, Inc.

Role Description

Eichleay is seeking an experienced Project Manager to join our Life Sciences and Food and Beverage project delivery team. This role is responsible for leading multidisciplinary engineering and design projects from initiation through closeout while ensuring client satisfaction, quality execution, schedule performance, and financial success.

The Project Manager serves as the primary client interface and coordinates engineering, architecture, design, project controls, procurement, construction, and management stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle. This position reports into the Director of Projects for Life Sciences and Food and Beverage.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead assigned projects from planning and feasibility through design, construction support, startup, and closeout.
• Define and manage project scope, deliverables, budget, schedule, staffing, execution strategy, communication plan, and quality requirements.
• Plan, schedule, conduct, and coordinate the technical and management aspects of projects and ensure assigned personnel coordinate effectively with all project participants.
• Serve as the primary client contact; lead client and contractor meetings, provide status updates, maintain alignment, and manage issues to closure.
• Confirm contract requirements are understood and satisfied, while maintaining appropriate documentation and controlling scope changes.
• Monitor budgets, forecasts, trends, schedule performance, staffing, earned progress, and project risks; initiate corrective action when performance deviates from plan.
• Prepare or support proposals, project execution plans, fee estimates, and contract amendments or change orders.
• Review and approve client invoices and support timely, accurate billing and collection activities.
• Proactively identify and mitigate safety, technical, commercial, quality, regulatory, and execution risks.
• Ensure deliverables comply with Eichleay quality standards, applicable client requirements, and project-specific procedures.
• Support effective coordination with procurement, construction, commissioning, qualification, validation, and startup resources, as applicable.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or a related technical discipline.
• Eight or more years of progressive engineering, design, construction, or capital project experience, including at least five years of project management experience supporting pharmaceutical, biotechnology, laboratory, and/or Food + Beverage facilities.
• Demonstrated success managing multidisciplinary capital projects through feasibility, planning, design, construction support, startup, and closeout.
• Experience developing project scopes, proposals, fee estimates, budgets, schedules, staffing plans, execution strategies, and change orders.

Requirements

• Strong leadership, communication, organization, negotiation, and decision-making skills, with the ability to lead diverse technical teams and manage competing priorities.
• Working knowledge of project controls, scheduling, forecasting, cost management, invoicing, trend tracking, risk management, and change management.
• Ability to use business and project technology effectively; demonstrated ability to leverage AI-enabled tools to improve workflow productivity is preferred.
• Ability to influence decision making and drive project execution.

Preferred Qualifications/Experience

• Experience managing projects as an A/E/C service provider.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license and/or project management certification.
• Experience working in cGMP-regulated environments.
• Familiarity with commissioning, qualification, validation, and startup activities.
• Familiarity with BIM/virtual design.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI for workflow productivity.

Core Expectations

• Zero Harm: Demonstrates commitment to health, safety, and environmental performance and addresses risks to protect employees, clients, contractors, and the environment.
• Action Orientation: Achieves goals, meets commitments and timelines, and responds with persistence and appropriate urgency.
• Building Effective Relationships: Builds inclusive, productive relationships with clients, employees, contractors, and other stakeholders using diplomacy and tact.
• Customer Focus: Develops enduring client relationships, understands client needs, and accepts responsibility for satisfaction and loyalty.
• Dealing with Change: Remains effective as priorities, work processes, project conditions, and client requirements change.
• Integrity and Trust: Adheres to required processes, communicates truthfully, keeps commitments, and is accountable for actions and results.
• Leadership: Leads by example, establishes clarity, empowers teams, and promotes open communication and accountability.
• Technical and Functional Skill: Applies sufficient technical and project delivery knowledge to produce accurate, timely, and high-quality results.

Work Environment and Physical Demands

The characteristics described below are representative of those encountered while performing the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodation will be provided to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop or kneel, talk and hear.
• Must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, depth perceptions, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Overtime may be necessary as workload dictates, including weekdays and weekends.
• Job duties may be performed at a client site, production facility, or industrial/construction job site.

Additional Industry/Project Requirements

• Client cGMP, sterile area, site safety, and badging requirements.
• RSO Safety Training and current card or ability to obtain.
• Client Safety Training and current badge or ability to obtain.
• TWIC Certification and current card or ability to obtain.
• Background screening including previous employment, education, criminal history, and driving record verification.
• Participation in random drug and alcohol programs.

Compensation

$125,000 - $165,000 *Anticipated annual salary may vary based on skills, experience, qualifications and internal peer equity. The pay range listed for this position is based on the anticipated base compensation at the time of the posting.

Location

Remote within the Bay Area/Northern California, with the option to work hybrid or full time from Eichleay’s Larkspur, CA office. Occasional client-site visits and travel for company or industry events are required, up to 25%.