Auditing Project Lead jobs in San Francisco, CA

Position Responsibilities

At IPS, you’ll grow your knowledge, skills, and passion to make a difference in the lives of people, solving complex challenges related to pharmaceutical, bio-tech, and animal health research and manufacturing facilities. We are looking for a talented Lead Process Engineer to join our team at our office located in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.

Provides leadership of technical discipline and directs the day to day operational activities of the department.  Responsible for delivery of target gross margin profits of the department.  Manages staffing activities, including recruiting, retention and development of department staff. Actively manages department revenue growth and labor efficiency.

Key Activities & Responsibilities

• Ensures the quality, accuracy, and completeness of overall work as to engineering, compliance with established IPS standards, procedures, codes, and ordinances. 
• Primary responsible individual for quality of unit output related to adherence to stated project goals as well as legal and IPS guidelines and efficiency. 
• Contributes technical input and oversees technical output of department to assure compliance with legal, IPS and project requirements. 
• Protects IPS corporate welfare through application of prudent judgment and implementation of risk management technique.
• Coordinates and contributes technical input and oversees technical output of department to assure compliance with legal, IPS and project requirements.
• Oversees Peer Review program.  
• Develops and assures implementation of standards and tools to ensure department output meets or exceeds established quality and performance expectations. 
• Oversees manpower planning of unit resources and administer technical staff to assure efficient assignment of resources on multiple, concurrent projects. 
• Recruits, retains and develops staffing plans to meet forecast labor and skills required to meet business plan. 
• Supervises designers and engineers and ensures that all employees within the department are properly managed, and trained. 
• Instills a positive work environment and facilitates effective staff development efforts. 
• Communicates staffing levels regularly with all levels of management at IPS. 
• Prepares proposals for service and supports preparation of proposals by others
• Supports business development with presentations and related marketing activities. 

Salary Range: $160,895 - $241,342

Qualifications & Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering.
• Minimum of 15 years of diversified engineering experience, at least 10 of which have been in a supervisory or management capacity consisting of planning, designing and construction of engineering projects.
• Knowledge of system design, applicable codes and cGMP’s as they affect process design and equipment specification. 
• Progressive ability, capacity, and aptitude in administration to plan, organize, supervise, and coordinate technical work and to obtain cooperation from others.  
• Analytical thinking, structured problem solving skills, superior communications skills, team building and strong work ethic.  Must be able to build rapport with department staff

Context, Environment, & Safety

• Travel based on the project location. 

• This position is a safety sensitive position.

• The employee is designated for field work and attends activities at client sites where they work in construction, process, packaging, manufacturing, research or other "non-administrative" areas.

Company Overview

IPS-Integrated Project Services is a global leader in developing innovative and cost effective solutions for the engineering, construction, commissioning and qualification of complex pharmaceutical and bio-tech research and manufacturing facilities. With technical expertise spanning R&D to pilot-scale to large-scale production, our team specializes in the technology, trends and regulatory environment to successfully deliver capital projects and improve operations. For over thirty years, we have applied unique LEAN methodologies throughout the project life cycle, continually finding ways to do things better and more efficiently, delivering higher quality and controlling costs. Headquartered in Blue Bell, PA, IPS is a multi-national company with over 1,500 professionals worldwide and offices in California, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Brazil, Canada, China, Ireland, Singapore, Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom and four locations in India. Visit our website at www.ipsdb.com.

Specialties

Process Architecture, Process Design, Engineering, Construction, Commissioning, Qualification, LEAN Project Delivery, Strategic Master Planning, Energy Conservation Management, Project Controls, Program/Project Management, Operations/Logistics Strategy and Planning, EPCMV and Staffing Services.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment at IPS without regard to race; creed; color; religion; national origin; sex; age; disability; sexual orientation; gender identity or expression; genetic predisposition or carrier status; veteran, marital, or citizenship status; or any other status protected by law. IPS is proud to be an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer.

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