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Role Overview
The Engineering Manager will serve as the Owner’s Representative and provide leadership, governance, and technical oversight for engineering activities across the project life cycle.

Responsibilities

Act as the Owner’s primary engineering representative and single point of coordination for multidisciplinary engineering matters.

Translate the Owner’s business, manufacturing, operational, maintenance, safety, quality, and regulatory requirements into clear project criteria and engineering priorities.

Establish and maintain the engineering execution strategy, design-governance process, decision authorities, review gates, deliverable requirements, and technical interfaces.

Direct and coordinate the activities of engineering consultants, the Engineer of Record, construction partners, vendors, and specialist advisors while preserving clear contractual accountability.

Monitor engineering performance against approved scope, budget, schedule, quality, and risk objectives; identify variances and lead timely recovery or mitigation actions.

Facilitate timely technical decisions, document Owner approvals, and escalate material issues with clear options, impacts, and recommendations.

Lead alignment among operations, maintenance, automation, quality, validation, EHS, procurement, construction, commissioning, and project controls stakeholders.

Oversee engineering from feasibility and conceptual design through detailed design, procurement, construction, commissioning, qualification, validation, and turnover.

Plan and lead multidisciplinary reviews of calculations, specifications, drawings, models, equipment packages, and reports at defined project milestones.

Verify compliance with applicable codes, standards, cGMP requirements, regulatory guidance, Owner standards, and sanitary-design principles.

Provide Owner-side engineering support during procurement, construction, installation, testing, startup, commissioning, qualification, and validation.

Key Deliverables & Systems to Be Governed

User requirement specifications, project design criteria, basis-of-design documents, and engineering execution plans.

Process and utility flow diagrams, P&IDs, mass and energy balances, equipment/instrument lists, line lists, and control narratives.

Equipment specifications, datasheets, bid packages, technical bid evaluations, vendor documents, and procurement recommendations.

Facility layouts, 3D models, piping/utility designs, clean systems, process systems, automation interfaces, and materials storage/distribution systems.

Construction work packages, field changes, punch lists, turnover packages, O&M documentation, and as-built records.

Commissioning, qualification, validation, startup, testing, training, and operational-readiness documentation.

Engineering Manager (Owner’s Representative)

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