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Facilities Project Engineer III

Gilead Sciences

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Location: Foster City, CA Posted Date: 4/23/2013 Position Type: Full time Job Code: 10441 Required Education: High school or equivalent Areas of Expertise Desired: Engineering
Facilities Management

Description

Specific Responsibilities:  
Reporting to the Facilities Engineering Manager, the Facilities Project Engineer III is responsible for providing engineering and project management services for laboratory construction projects at the Foster City campus. For small to medium projects, they will lead the effort from concept to construction closeout. For other projects, they will support other project engineers as needed. This is a critical and exciting position on a rapidly growing campus.
 
Essential Duties and Job Functions:  
- Ensures effective communication between Project Stakeholders, Engineering, Space Planning, Maintenance, Site Services, Security, IT, Quality, Purchasing, EH&S, Finance, and Legal.
- Compiles and analyzes statistical data to determine the feasibility of buying products and to establish price objectives. Makes recommendations to senior managers based upon evaluation.
- Participates in project management through the entire work flow including scope development, schedule, financials to upgrade facilities and equipment.
- May establish project teams, develops project strategy, master scheduling, spending forecasts, logistics systems, including RFQ's, bid selection, award of purchase orders, and invoice approval.
- Manages the process to secure executed contracts, purchase order terms and conditions, insurance certificates, bonds, and other documents as required to protect the interests of Gilead.
- Reviews and approves project plans, specifications, and submittals to ensure equipment and facilities are constructed to proper requirements.
- Ensures projects are executed in accordance to Gilead Policies, Federal/State/Local Codes, Industry Best Practices, safety codes and cGMP requirements.
- Works on engineering planning, financial justification, start-up activities, scale up processes, implementation, process improvements, and validation.
- Generates and reviews required engineering and documentation. Provide accurate budget estimates for capital equipment and projects. Independently resolve engineering issues of complex scope.
- May provide guidance to other project engineers, maintenance/calibration technicians, and EH&S personnel.
- Confers with vendors and analyzes vendors' operations to determined factors that affect prices and determines lowest cost consistent with quality, reliability, and ability to meet required schedules.
- Reviews proposals, negotiates prices, selects or recommends suppliers, analyzes trends, follows up ordered placed, verifies delivery, approves payment, and maintains necessary records.
- Investigates and elicits client requirements and specifications for projects and ensures that business drivers are clearly defined and communicated.
- Generates project standards and updates existing documentation standards.

Requirements

BS degree in Engineering and minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in related field. An MA/MBA degree can be substituted for 1 year of relevant experience.
- Experience with design and operations of Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing (MEP) Systems and working in cGMP environment.
- Possess strong leadership, project management, negotiation and communication skills.
- Must be familiar with Autocad, MS Office applications, MS Project, Oracle Enterprise Systems, Siemens Apogee Products and System Architecture/Programming.
- Must have experience and knowledge of Fire/Life/Safety systems, HVAC systems, with regards to their design and operation.
- Experience in design and implementation, planning and schedule, and project management of small to medium capital projects and facilities equipment upgrades.
- May coach and mentor junior engineers.
- May manage and coordinate resources across different teams.
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