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.
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%.
Company Overview
Eichleay is a dynamic organization with over 150 years of experience in
delivering project management and engineering solutions across various
industries, including energy and chemicals, power generation, life sciences,
mining, and food and beverage. We are committed to innovation, excellence, and
building long-lasting relationships with our clients.
Position Summary
As a Project Manager at Eichleay you will be expected to lead multidisciplinary
projects through the full lifecycle, with accountability for client
relationships, team coordination, risk management, quality, schedule, and
financial performance.
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.
Job Requirements
Education
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or a
related technical discipline.
Experience
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.
Skills
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.
Additional Industry/Project Requirements:
This role may require all or some of the following requirements at time of hire
or during employment:
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.
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.
While performing duties of this job, you would occasionally be required to
stand, walk, sit, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop or
kneel, talk and hear (this includes being able to hear and talk on site based
communication equipment), distinguish between various colors, be able to hear
safety tones/notifications, and use fingers and hands to feel objects, tools,
temperature or controls.
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. This may include weekdays,
and weekends.
Job duties may be performed at a client site, production facility or
industrial/construction job site. Day to day job direction will typically be
by Eichleay team lead.
Conditions and/or schedule may vary, but the conditions listed above will
generally apply.
Candidates will be required to follow our clients' site-based rules and
protocols regarding infectious diseases.
All opportunities with Eichleay will require authorization to work in the US
without the need for sponsorship. Positions will require in-person interactions
and may require working on site in an office or field environment. This
position is subject to federally mandated drug/alcohol testing. Candidates
applying to Eichleay must have the ability to be badged and maintain a badge as
a safety sensitive position and/or within the Building and Construction trade
for process safety management governed facilities. This will require in-depth
drug screening for all positions.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to
race, color, religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth,
breast-feeding and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender
identity, gender expression, national origin or ancestry, age, mental or
physical disability (including medical condition), military or veteran status,
political preference, marital status, citizenship, genetic information or other
status protected by law or regulation.
Use of Artificial Intelligence: At Eichleay, we embrace the responsible use of
Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enhance efficiency and decision-making across
our operations, including recruitment.