Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Réalta Technologies is seeking an experienced IT/OT Systems Project Manager to support a large pharmaceutical client's global delivery team. The role manages the planning, governance, and end-to-end delivery of data integration and system deployment projects connecting Manufacturing Execution Systems with shopfloor and enterprise systems across global manufacturing sites.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end project management for IT/OT system deployments across multiple global manufacturing sites, from initiation through to hypercare and closure
- Own delivery of data integration projects between MES and shopfloor/automation systems, ensuring scope, schedule, budget and quality targets are met
- Apply the appropriate delivery methodology (Agile or Waterfall) based on project type, regulatory requirements and stakeholder needs, and manage hybrid approaches where required
- Ensure all project activity aligns with GAMP 5 principles and the client's Software/System Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including appropriate validation, documentation and change control
- Manage project plans, RAID logs, resourcing and budgets, and track delivery using Jira (and complementary tools such as Confluence or MS Project)
- Coordinate cross-functional and cross-site teams, including IT, OT/automation engineering, QA, validation, and third-party vendors/system integrators
- Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships across global manufacturing, quality, engineering and IT functions, managing expectations and escalations proactively
- Provide clear, regular reporting on project status, risks and issues to steering committees, sponsors and the wider programme team
- Identify and manage project risks, dependencies and interfaces with other workstreams within the wider global programme
- Support change management and end-user adoption activities to ensure smooth transition into operational use
Skills
- * Proven experience as a Project Manager delivering IT and/or OT systems projects, ideally within a pharmaceutical, life sciences or other regulated manufacturing environment
- * Demonstrable experience managing projects using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies, with the judgement to select and adapt the right approach for the context
- * Hands-on experience with Jira for project and delivery tracking
- * Solid understanding of GAMP5 and SDLC frameworks, including validation and change control practices within a regulated environment
- * Experience managing global, multi-site projects with distributed stakeholders and virtual teams
- * Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and align stakeholders across IT, OT, quality and manufacturing functions at all levels
- * Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience preparing and presenting status reports to senior stakeholders and steering committees
- * Comfortable working remotely and independently as part of a distributed, global delivery team
- * Experience with data historian platforms (e.g. AVEVA/Wonderware Historian, PI System) and their integration with MES and enterprise systems
- * Direct experience with MES platforms (e.g. POMSnet, PAS-X, Camstar, DeltaV MES or similar) in a pharmaceutical or biotech manufacturing context
- * Familiarity with shopfloor/automation systems and protocols (SCADA, PLC, batch systems) and how they interface with MES and IT layers
- * Recognised project management certification (e.g. PMP, PRINCE2, AgilePM, Scrum Master)
- * Experience working within or alongside a consulting/systems integration environment
Benefits
- Remote role
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