Sustaining Project Engineer, Operations

Description Key Responsibilities

• Project Champion: Become an integral team member on sustaining engineering projects, ensuring site requirements are seamlessly woven into project scope, risk assessments, and implementation strategies.
• Communication Catalyst: Serve as the vital bridge between platform project teams and manufacturing sites, translating complex execution needs, risks, and constraints into actionable insights.
• Strategic Resource Advisor: Provide crucial site-level intelligence on capacity, timing, and resource availability to power project sequencing and prioritization decisions.
• Execution Maestro: Orchestrate site activities including validations, process studies, engineering work orders, material trials, and production line scheduling.
• Risk Navigator: Proactively monitor site readiness and execution risks, bringing up potential impacts to leadership to enable swift, effective mitigation strategies.
• Change Implementation Specialist: Drive successful implementation of critical sustaining changes across materials, packaging, processes, compliance initiatives, and business continuity projects.
• Documentation Guardian: Ensure meticulous completion of all required documentation and change control activities, including validation documentation, training coordination, and implementation closeout.
• Portfolio Manager: Take ownership of the complete Sustaining projects portfolio for sites within your scope, driving efficiency and excellence.

• Exceptional communication and coordination skills with the proven ability to influence outcomes without direct authority.
• Background in business analysis, product management, or negotiation/mediation that enables you to navigate complex situations.
• Valuable exposure to cost-out strategies, supply continuity planning, compliance initiatives, or end-of-life product management.

• Manufacturing sites recognize you as their clear, trusted point of contact for all sustaining engineering initiatives.
• Project teams gain unprecedented visibility into site capacity, timing constraints, and execution challenges.
• Validations, trials, and implementations happen earlier, smoother, and with dramatically fewer disruptions.
• Sustaining projects flow efficiently through the pipeline thanks to your masterful coordination between sites and platform teams.
• Site sustaining needs receive the attention they deserve through your clear communication and effective prioritization at the platform level.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Supply Chain, Project Management, Communications, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in manufacturing, sustaining engineering, process engineering, or product lifecycle support within a regulated industry.
• Experience supporting cross-functional project teams with site execution responsibilities.
• Experience operating in a quality- and regulatory-controlled environment.

• Experience in medical devices or another highly regulated manufacturing environment.
• Experience coordinating site trials or execution across multiple manufacturing lines or sites.
• Familiarity with SAP manufacturing and document control systems.
• PMP, Lean Six Sigma, or similar project or operations certifications.