Project Director - Pharma Process Plant Construction project

Project overview

Project Camelot involves the extension of an existing Ecolab chemical facility producing resin used in the cleaning of pharmaceutical vessels and equipment. While the facility supports the wider pharmaceutical supply chain, this is a chemical / process facility project, not a pharmaceutical project.

Designer Group’s scope includes approximately 14,000m of piping, split across clean utilities and black utilities. The package includes clean utility pipework, black utility pipework, inline equipment, valve installation, minor equipment, pressure testing, flushing, chemical cleaning, passivation, testing, commissioning, insulation and cladding.

The programme is aggressive and will require strong site leadership, disciplined planning, subcontractor control, commercial focus and a right-first-time approach to quality. The delivery strategy relies heavily on offsite manufacture, prefabrication, modular pipework, accurate progress tracking and early focus on system completion and turnover.

Role overview

The Project Director will take senior responsibility for the safe, commercial and operational delivery of Designer Group’s scope on Project Camelot.

This is a hands-on, site-based leadership role suited to a senior project leader with strong experience in mechanical, process piping, industrial, chemical, energy, pharmaceutical construction or complex M&E environments.

Key responsibilities

Project leadership and delivery

• Take overall site leadership responsibility for Designer Group’s delivery on Project Camelot.
• Lead the project team across construction, engineering, planning, commercial, QA/QC, safety, commissioning and turnover.
• Maintain clear control of programme, cost, safety, quality, risk and stakeholder performance.
• Drive the planned delivery sequence of bulk zonal install, sectional test/handover, system drops and system completion.
• Ensure site activities are properly planned, resourced, coordinated and controlled.
• Identify constraints early and ensure they are resolved, escalated or commercially protected where required.

OSM, fabrication and subcontractor management

• Oversee the offsite manufacture, prefabrication and pipe spool/module strategy.
• Ensure OSM, fabrication, logistics and site installation are coordinated against the construction programme.
• Manage subcontractor performance against agreed scope, safety, quality, productivity and programme requirements.
• Support procurement and delivery of piping, valves, supports, inline equipment and specialist subcontract packages.
• Maintain visibility of fabrication progress, NDT, tagging, material readiness and delivery sequencing.

Programme, commercial and stakeholder control

• Work closely with planning to maintain a realistic and properly resourced construction programme.
• Track progress against installation output, manpower, milestones and system completion dates.
• Work with the Commercial Manager and QS team to protect Designer Group’s commercial position.
• Ensure variations, delays, access issues, design issues and scope changes are identified, recorded and progressed.
• Maintain strong project records, correspondence, meeting minutes and site evidence.
• Represent Designer Group with IPS, Ecolab, the PSCS, consultants, subcontractors and internal stakeholders.