Senior Project Manager – Industrial / Pharmaceutical Construction

Location: Lebanon, Indiana

Work Arrangement: Full-time, 100% on-site

Company: Albers Management & Design Services, LLC

Project: Lilly greenfield pharmaceutical manufacturing program

Reports To: Project Director or designated program leadership

Position Summary

Albers Management is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to support the delivery of a large pharmaceutical manufacturing project in Lebanon, Indiana. This senior, field-based role will lead assigned buildings, work packages, systems, or project scopes from planning and design through construction, commissioning, turnover, and closeout.

The Senior Project Manager will act as an Owner’s Representative and coordinate the Owner, designers, construction managers, contractors, trade partners, equipment vendors, quality teams, commissioning personnel, and operations stakeholders.

Pharmaceutical or life-sciences experience is preferred. Significant industrial construction experience is mandatory.

Key ResponsibilitiesProject Leadership

• Lead assigned project scopes, buildings, systems, or work packages through final handover.
• Protect the Owner’s interests related to scope, cost, schedule, quality, safety, risk, operability, and long-term value.
• Establish priorities, responsibilities, deliverables, and performance expectations.
• Coordinate designers, contractors, vendors, project controls, quality, commissioning, and operations teams.
• Drive decisions, monitor commitments, and escalate significant issues with clear recommendations.
• Mentor Project Managers, Assistant Project Managers, Project Engineers, and coordinators.

Design and Scope Management

• Develop, review, and maintain clearly defined scopes of work.
• Coordinate design development with operational, maintenance, engineering, and regulatory requirements.
• Review drawings, specifications, submittals, vendor documents, and construction packages for completeness, constructability, coordination, and maintainability.
• Identify scope gaps, overlaps, design conflicts, incomplete interfaces, and operational concerns.
• Lead or support design, constructability, value-engineering, and interdisciplinary reviews.
• Coordinate RFIs, technical clarifications, field-design issues, and design decisions.
• Evaluate the cost, schedule, procurement, construction, commissioning, and operational impacts of changes.

Construction and Field Management

• Maintain a visible field presence and verify that reported progress reflects actual site conditions.
• Monitor work for alignment with approved documents, project requirements, sequencing, and quality expectations.
• Coordinate with superintendents, trade contractors, field engineers, quality teams, safety personnel, and vendors.
• Identify and resolve field conflicts, access limitations, trade-stacking concerns, incomplete prerequisites, material shortages, and sequencing issues.
• Review contractor work plans, installation strategies, logistics plans, phasing plans, and mobilization activities.
• Participate in field walks, progress reviews, safety observations, quality inspections, and readiness assessments.
• Develop and monitor recovery plans when work falls behind schedule.

Schedule and Project Controls

• Understand the integrated project schedule and critical activities affecting assigned scopes.
• Review contractor and vendor schedules for logic, sequencing, resources, procurement constraints, and milestone alignment.
• Participate in look-ahead planning, pull planning, constraint removal, schedule reviews, and recovery planning.
• Identify critical-path impacts, delayed decisions, incomplete predecessor work, resource constraints, and milestone risks.
• Coordinate design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, qualification, and handover activities.
• Provide accurate status reports, forecasts, and mitigation plans.

Cost, Change, and Commercial Management

• Support budgets, forecasts, commitments, contingencies, cash flow, and cost-to-complete projections.
• Review estimates, proposals, change requests, pay applications, and supporting documentation.
• Identify scope changes, cost trends, claims, and commercial exposures early.
• Manage changes from identification through evaluation, negotiation, authorization, implementation, and closeout.
• Confirm costs align with contractual requirements, approved scope, and completed work.
• Maintain records supporting commercial decisions and assist with con…