Project Lead BMS

Contract

Project Lead BMS

Posted on 08 October 26 by Ralf Huisman

• Leiden
• €6.000 - €8.000 per Month

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Job Description

Technical Project Lead

Leiden, Netherlands | On-site

Purpose

The Technical Project Lead provides end-to-end technical leadership for capital and engineering projects, coordinating technical functions, project resources, suppliers, and subcontractors from design and engineering through construction, commissioning, start-up, and handover. The Technical Project Lead is accountable for maintaining technical alignment and execution against the approved scope, schedule, budget, safety expectations, quality requirements, and project governance, while keeping the Program Manager informed of progress, risks, issues, and decisions.

You will be responsible for

• Lead the integrated technical delivery of assigned projects across design, engineering, construction, commissioning, start-up, and handover, ensuring execution remains aligned with approved scope, schedule, and budget.
• Establish and maintain functional and technical consensus with project stakeholders, end users, system owners, engineering functions, suppliers, and subcontractors throughout the project lifecycle.
• Chair project team meetings and maintain clear minutes, action logs, decision logs, and follow-up mechanisms; provide periodic status, progress, risk, and issue reporting to the Program Manager.
• Own project safety, environmental health, and related execution requirements, and ensure required permits are identified, approved, and available in line with the project schedule.
• Maintain the project risk register, drive timely mitigation and escalation, and lead project change control, including Project Change Notices (PCNs), impact assessment, approval, and implementation follow-through.
• Develop, coordinate, and monitor project execution, commissioning, start-up, configuration management, and other required plans in accordance with applicable procedures.
• Coordinate and monitor technical project resources and subcontractors, clarify deliverables and interfaces, and address constraints that may affect safe, compliant, and timely delivery.
• Ensure robust document control across all project phases and deliver complete handover packages, including approved project documentation, commissioning records, as-built files, and formal takeover by production, maintenance, system owners, and other end customers.

Qualifications / Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in engineering, automation, process technology, construction management, or a related technical discipline.
• Progressive experience leading multidisciplinary technical, capital, facilities, utilities, automation, or equipment projects in a manufacturing or similarly controlled environment.
• Demonstrated ability to manage technical scope, schedule, cost, resources, suppliers, subcontractors, project risks, changes, and handover deliverables across the full project lifecycle.
• Practical knowledge of engineering design, construction execution, commissioning, start-up, and technical documentation, with the ability to challenge and integrate specialist input.
• Experience applying safety and environmental health expectations, permit controls, and disciplined risk management during project execution.
• Strong stakeholder leadership and facilitation skills, with the ability to build technical consensus, chair effective meetings, document decisions, and communicate clearly with project teams and senior stakeholders.
• Experience with document control, configuration management, change control, and handover of as-built and turnover documentation.
• Fluency in English; proficiency in Dutch is an advantage for site-based stakeholder and contractor coordination.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience delivering large-scale, mult-year projects in a GMP/GxP-regulated pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical technology, or life sciences environment.
• Working knowledge of qualification and validation interfaces, including commissioning and qualification planning and turnover to operations.
• Recognized project management or engineering credential, such as PMP, PRINCE2, IPMA, or an equivalent certification.

Key capabilities

• Technical leadership and systems thinking
• Project execution and delivery discipline
• Safety and quality mindset
• Risk and change management
• Stakeholder alignment and decision-making
• Supplier and contractor coordination
• Clear written and verbal communication
• Ownership from concept through handover

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Job Information

Rate / Salary

€6.000 - €8.000 per Month

Sector

Pharmaceuticals

Category

Building Management Systems

Skills / Experience

Not Specified

Benefits

Not Specified

Our Reference

JOB-5959

Job Location