Staff/Sr Staff Project Manager

Zoetis is the world's largest Manufacturer and Supplier of Animal Pharmaceuticals.

At Zoetis in Lincoln, NE, we manufacture high quality medicines for dogs, cats, and livestock. Our plant has been recognized as one of the Nebraska's Safest Companies, with a long-standing presence in the Lincoln community. We are a clean, modern site that continues to innovate and grow.

Benefits Include:

4 weeks accrued paid vacation and 13 paid holidays.

401(k) match with company profit sharing.

Tuition reimbursement and Student Loan repayment program.

Great Health, personal, and family benefits starting day 1.

Position Summary

Lead the design, development, and construction of facilities projects aligned with the Strategic Capital Plan to support business objectives. Provide oversight, counsel, and advice to operating centers on proposed capital projects. Manage cross-functional teams and external partners to deliver projects on scope, schedule, and budget. Ensure compliance with corporate technical guidelines, quality standards, and applicable regulations. Drive value through cost reduction, risk management, and adoption of appropriate new technologies. Support early-stage project development including needs assessment, programming, conceptual engineering, cost estimating, milestone scheduling, and value engineering. Foster a culture of safety, quality, and continuous improvement.

Position Responsibilities

• Manage architectural, mechanical, and electrical design, as well as construction and equipment installation for assigned facilities projects. Determine, manage, and control budgets and costs of all facilities construction projects assigned.
• Develop, recommend, and implement long and short-range plans for improving and expanding manufacturing, research and development, administration, and office facilities.
• Regularly solve technical problems; identify, evaluate, and implement new technologies to improve profitability through reduced manufacturing and operating costs.
• Ensure compliance with corporate technical guidelines and quality standards, state and local codes, and FDA/USDA/EU/EPA/OSHA regulations on all assigned capital projects.
• Assist Zoetis in conceptually developing projects, including need, programming issues, engineering solution, cost estimates, milestone schedules and value engineering.
• Coordinate with Zoetis staff members on various facilities related project issues, including life safety, environmental, risk management, project auditing, community relations, taxation considerations, operations, and maintenance.

Education and Experience

• For Staff Project Manager: Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering. 5+ years of manufacturing/project engineering experience, preferably Pharmaceutical/Biological industry.
• For Sr. Staff Project Manager: Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering. 7+ years of manufacturing/project engineering experience, preferably Pharmaceutical/Biological industry.

Technical Skills and Competencies Required

• Demonstrated ability to supervise, plan and organize.
• Demonstrated ability to manage a variety of projects at one time and bring them to completion.
• Demonstrated ability to interact with all levels of the department, all levels of other departments, regulatory agencies, consultants, contractors, and suppliers.
• Developed knowledge of PQSs, validation and CGMPs.

Physical Position Requirements

This position requires extended sitting, keyboarding, and computing, frequent walking, occasional standing, and some lifting of automation and computer devices and components.

Any unsolicited resumes sent to Zoetis from a third party, such as an Agency recruiter, including unsolicited resumes sent to a Zoetis mailing address, fax machine or email address, directly to Zoetis employees, or to Zoetis resume database will be considered Zoetis property. Zoetis will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume.

Zoetis will consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume to have been referred by the Agency free of any charges or fees. This includes any Agency that is an approved/engaged vendor but does not have the appropriate approvals to be engaged on a search.