Program Project Manager

Role overview

The Program / Project Manager will deliver end-to-end scheduling and project management support for the company’s manufacturing facility in County Dublin. The role focuses on keeping plans aligned, milestones on track, and execution compliant, safe, and efficient.

Key responsibilities

This position involves building and maintaining an integrated project schedule across Engineering, Operations, Quality, and project workstreams, while keeping major milestones visible and up to date. The role also supports FDA audit readiness, capital projects, continuous improvement work, and five-year strategic initiatives such as the enterprise production schedule and site development plan.

You will manage information systems, create reports, presentations, project updates, schedules, timelines, and correspondence using a range of computer-based tools and company systems. In addition, you will maintain the overall program schedule, review critical path plans, coordinate detailed schedules with resource and deliverable loading, and provide administrative support to keep project execution running smoothly.

Another important part of the job is preparing, formatting, issuing, and reviewing documentation through the standard approval process, as well as helping others do the same. You will act as a document system specialist, handling document reviews, approvals, workflow progression, filing, tracking, auditing, and database upkeep. You may also be required to take on other tasks needed to support essential manufacturing operations.

Tools and systems

The role requires regular use of MS Word, MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint, and relevant industry or company software for project management, document control, tracking, and reporting. Experience with Primavera and Microsoft Project planning tools is specifically expected, along with familiarity with a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS).

Qualifications and experience

A degree or diploma in Project Management or Engineering is required, together with at least 10 years of experience in the pharmaceutical sector or a comparable environment. The ideal candidate will have experience working with plant leadership stakeholders, technical cGMP pharmaceutical knowledge, and practical project execution experience. Exposure to facility construction and process equipment development/integration projects is important, as is experience working in professional services, under strict EHS requirements, and within cross-functional teams.

Competencies

The successful candidate should bring strong interpersonal and communication ability, excellent documentation skills, and a careful, detail-focused working style. You should be a dependable collaborator with a strong sense of delivery, comfortable with ambiguity and change, and able to work independently with minimal supervision. Integrity, trustworthiness, enthusiasm, flexibility, and a willingness to develop are also important.

Additional requirements

The role calls for proven use of planning methodologies, lean principles, and structured problem-solving approaches. You should be able to identify improvement opportunities and manage your own workload on a routine basis while working effectively as part of a team.