Manager

Role purpose

Project planning and execution

• Plan and execute new API manufacturing plant and expansion projects.
• Prepare schedules, budgets, resource plans, and execution strategies.
• Coordinate civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and utility work.
• Monitor progress against milestones and manage contractors, consultants, vendors, and engineering agencies.

Technical and engineering coordination

• Coordinate design and engineering of API manufacturing facilities; review PFDs, P&IDs, layouts, equipment specifications, and utilities.
• Coordinate process equipment and systems such as reactors, centrifuges, dryers, filters, tanks, HVAC, purified water, steam, chilled water, cooling towers, and nitrogen.

Regulatory and quality compliance

• Ensure compliance with applicable Schedule M, WHO-GMP, USFDA, and EU-GMP requirements.
• Ensure compliance with environmental, pollution-control, factory safety, and statutory requirements.
• Coordinate with QA, QC, EHS, Production, and Engineering; ensure documentation, qualification, and validation support.

Budget, commissioning, and team leadership

• Prepare and monitor CAPEX budgets, control spending, identify savings, review proposals, and track purchase orders, contracts, and payment milestones.
• Coordinate installation, commissioning, FAT, SAT, IQ, OQ, trial runs, and performance verification; hand completed projects to operations.
• Lead project engineers and cross-functional teams, hold project reviews, prepare MIS reports and dashboards, and escalate project risks and delays.

Education and experience

• B.E. or B.Tech in Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical, or Instrumentation Engineering.
• 10–15 years of pharmaceutical/API project execution experience, including at least five years in project management or leadership.
• Experience with greenfield and brownfield API projects, CAPEX management, engineering coordination, and plant commissioning.
• M.Tech or MBA in Project Management is an added advantage.