Cumming Group

Senior Project/Program Director (Pharmaceutical - Construction)

Houston, TX · Director · Contract

Sponsorship not specified$168k-$236kDetected 6 days ago

Stakeholder ManagementNegotiationForecastingProcurementGMPLeadershipCommunicationConstruction ManagementOSHA

About the role

At Cumming Group, you will work on some of the world's most exciting projects in a dynamic environment where your success is measured by the impact you make.
With over 60 offices globally, an extremely diverse project portfolio, and double-digit year-over-year revenue growth, the opportunities to make your mark are limitless!
The Senior Project Director will serve as the owner's representative for a major pharmaceutical manufacturing capital program in Houston, TX.

Represent the client's interests throughout design, procurement, construction, commissioning, qualification, start-up, and turnover.
Lead Project Directors, Project Managers, consultants, contractors, vendors, and functional project teams.
Maintain accountability for portfolio cost, schedule, safety, quality, and delivery performance.
Lead resolution of significant technical, commercial, contractual, construction, and stakeholder issues.
Direct value engineering, constructability, design optimization, and lifecycle-cost initiatives.
Develop and mentor project leadership while driving accountability and consistent execution across the portfolio.
Deep understanding of pharmaceutical facility design, construction, commissioning, qualification, validation, start-up, and operational turnover.

Bachelor's degree in engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, or a related technical discipline.
Knowledge & Skills Required:

Direct responsibility for individual project scopes exceeding $100 million.
Leadership of multiple major projects or workstreams being executed concurrently.
Owner's representative or comparable client-side project leadership experience.
Delivery of large, complex pharmaceutical or biotechnology manufacturing projects.
Experience with API, biologics, fill-finish, advanced manufacturing, laboratory, pilot plant, or similar regulated facilities is preferred.

Ability to provide executive oversight across multiple concurrent projects and interdependent workstreams.
Working knowledge of GMP, OSHA, environmental, permitting, and process-safety requirements.
Ability to identify emerging issues, make timely decisions, and direct corrective or recovery strategies.

All other terms and conditions of employment, such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoff, return from layoff, training, education, and social and recreational programs, are administered without regard to the characteristics described

Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Short and long-term disability
Align engineering, construction, quality, validation, operations, maintenance, and environmental health and safety stakeholders.
Preferred Education and Experience:
Education: Bachelor's degree in engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, or a related technical discipline.

We are one of the fastest-growing project and cost management consultancies in the United States, as reflected in our top 10 rankings in ENR.
This role will lead a portfolio of concurrent projects, providing strategic direction and accountability across scope, cost, schedule, safety, quality, risk, and operational readiness.
The ideal candidate has led individual project scopes exceeding $100 million and brings deep experience delivering complex pharmaceutical or biotechnology manufacturing facilities.
This position requires a consistent on-site presence at the client location.

luding childbirth or related medical conditions, including breastfeeding), military service, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical disability, mental disability, veteran status or any other protected classific

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