Unispace Looking for Project Manager – Unispace Life Sciences at Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Full Time

We continue to revolutionize the creation of workplace to meet the needs of today’s ever-changing global brands. Our agile, end-to-end experience, delivered seamlessly across borders, is powered by strong client partnerships and enabled by sound workplace intelligence and transformational technology.

We believe that everyone should work in an environment that inspires productivity, peak performance and delivers wellbeing. Across our 48 global studios we see that positive work environments foster open, collaborative and supportive cultures populated by highly independent, motivated people. While our core business is strategising, designing and building workplaces for some of the biggest brands in the world, we know our people are our #1 asset. We look after them with an extensive Employee Value Proposition program which includes rewards and recognition, career development and a focus on wellbeing.

Unispace Life Sciences is an award winning design and engineering consultancy firm exclusively servicing the life sciences industry. Our Center of Excellence is based in Ireland with offices in Cork and Dublin. We are a multidisciplinary team of Process, Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation and controls, building services design engineers and project managers who come together to deliver complex process projects for some of the world’s leading brands. Our work is diverse and challenging. We work with clients to help deliver spaces and infrastructure to support the development and delivery of life changing medicines and solutions. In December of 2021, BPE joined forces with the global architecture firm Unispace to expand its reach and capabilities, and to revolutionize the future of the workplace.

Unispace Life Sciences is delighted to be expanding their existing team, in recruiting a key role for our organisation, a Project Manager. This role could be based out of our Auckland, Wellington or Christchurch office.

Responsibilities:

• Delivery of capital projects safely, on budget, and to schedule.
• Plan, execute and track the progress of projects through the design phases from inception to handover.
• Ensure key deliverables as per client standards are adhered to.
• Propose options and effectively communicate to Management/Client/Stakeholders.
• Establish project objectives in line with project requirements and ensure goals & timelines are achieved.
• Put robust plans and strategies in place to manage the project lifespan
• Communicate project issues to the team and follow up with the right skill sets to put the best solutions in place on time and within budget.
• Ensure all safety design review actions are completed accurately.
• Provide direction and vision to the project team.
• Ability to resource and link the right skillset on projects.
• Build effective communication between the team, clients, and stakeholders.
• Reporting to management on project/schedule/cost issues.
• Ensure adherence to the client’s quality and engineering standards.
• Develop & implement appropriate project execution strategy.
• Monitor compliance to applicable practices policies, and specifications.
• Perform overall quality control of the work (budget, schedule, plans, personnel’s performance).

Your experience:

• 5+ years project management experience with a degree in a relevant engineering discipline.
• Demonstrated Pharmaceutical Design Projects experience.
• Experience in Full lifecycle Project Management.
• Exposure and demonstrated experience with Cost Control.
• Scheduling and achieving schedules.
• Delivery of projects within a GMP environment.
• Thorough understanding of engineering principles, concepts, industry practices, and standards.
• Client relations.
• Knowledge of Process Control/Automation Systems an advantage.
• Solutions orientated

What do we offer?

• A hybrid working week
• Extensive training and mentoring
• Exposure to the design and construction industry in an agile and collaborative global firm