Senior Project Technical Manager

**Location** Singapore, Singapore, Singapore **Job ID** R-228557 **Date posted** 08/06/2025 **Senior Project Technical Manager - Global Operations** **Location Singapore** **_Use your Technical Leadership and project management skills to shape and deliver the future for AstraZeneca Operations assets. _** **_As part of our Global Engineering function,_**_ you will be responsible for leading a team of technical SMEs to deliver the most appropriate engineering solution to meet AZ’s key stakeholder expectations from an operational performance, safety, and sustainable viewpoint_**_ for the lifetime of the facility. _** At AstraZeneca, we turn ideas into life changing medicines. We champion trying new things, and we nurture a test and learn culture that means we are always progressing close to our goals. Global Engineering & Real Estate (GERE) play a fundamental role in supporting AstraZeneca’s strong medicines pipeline, by delivering facilities and technology which meet the Enterprise needs and realize business benefits across the small molecule and biologics product portfolio. GERE has expertise in Project Management, Technical Solutions, Project Control, Built Environment, Compliance, Construction Management, Process Governance and Corporate Real Estate. Your assigned geographical area will be Singapore, but as a part of the Global Engineering team you will also collaborate, share and learn from your peers across the globe. **What you’ll do** As the **Senior**Project Technical Manager**for a new end-to-end Antibody Drug Conjugate Campus in Singapore ( $1.5 billion project), you will - Establish our project’s technical direction for all technical aspects. - Lead and task manage a significant cross-disciplinary SME team and working closely with the US European based SME team to create a seamless transfer of technical responsibilities - Ensure the full technical scope is aligned with AZ business and project needs. - Ensure the technical team keeps to the project scope - Take accountability for the delivery of the GMP compliant, functionality and robust performance of the technical packages (e.g. process, packing, automation, critical utilities, HVAC). - Ensure the projects’ alignment to AstraZeneca’s Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) requirements. - Evaluate the technical competence of Design Contractors and the proposed external team members qualifications. - Define and secure the necessary GERE Subject Matter Experts (SME) and the required support from AZglobal technical functions or local site technical support - Act as the Technical ‘conscience’ for the project throughout its lifetime - Work multi-functionally across the project to create a complete, integrated, compliant process design, influencing partners as needed and highlighting any impact of decisions on budget and schedule - Ensure relevant standards are applied (methodologies, tools, concepts, specifications, guidelines and technical solutions) - Develop technical performance criteria together with the Client team, ensure these are met during start-up and early operation - Post-project completion ensure that the technical learning is collected and documented. - Establish effective collaboration and ways of working with relevant partners. **Essential Skills/Experience** - 5-10 years relevant **Capital project technical and execution experience**, preferably within the pharmaceutical industry and major capital investments - Experience of working in a global organization and you are aware of how "engineering delivery" needs to be adapted to take account local differences. - Experience of working successfully with Design Contractors and Equipment suppliers on major projects you have led - Excellent communication, customer & partner management, enabling and influencing skills - Degree in an Engineering or Science discipline with of experience of project management and/or project delivery - ** Proven leadership** qualities with motivational ability to motivate and direct others in a dynamic and complex environment through change. - Self-motivated and able to act on their initiative, highly organized with proven time-management and structured prioritization skills. - Tenacity and resilience to respond to unforeseen situations - Demonstrable problem solving and analytical skills, be a good communicator (written and verbal), have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to quickly build relationships with others. - Strong collaborator with ability to create and maintain effective working relationships and willing to challenge behaviours and actions. - Detail focused completer/finisher with a results-orientated mindset Collaboration is how we do things, though the role is to be based in Singapore you will still be an active part in our broader international technical team, your expertise may be needed for technical assessments at other Projects or sites in the AZ network, and so you will need to be able to travel internationally, with ade