Assistant Project Responsible

Job summary

Provide technical leadership across project design, procurement, construction, commissioning, qualification, validation, and operational readiness while ensuring alignment with project, business, regulatory, and cGMP requirements. Coordinate stakeholders and suppliers, manage technical documentation and project controls, resolve field issues, and support system handover and project closeout.

Job details

10/16/2026 Assistant Project Responsible What We Offer At Evonik, you’re part of a global chemical company working in many sectors that go beyond chemistry. From lipids for tomorrow’s medicines, biosurfactants for green detergents, additives for plastics recycling or membranes to help drive forward the energy transition, you’ll play an essential part in helping the world’s most essential industries succeed. Our success hinges on a diversity of ideas powered by people, not egos. Whether you’re a scientist or engineer, new to the team or established, in business, production, or anything in between – we cheer each other on. Because we believe we can do anything. Explore everything. And Be Part of Something Special! Find Out More About The Many Benefits We Offer https://www.evonik.com/en/careers/why.html Meet the team and get to know the people behind Evonik: https://www.evonik.com/en/news/meet-the-team.html Responsibilities Provide technical leadership for the project by establishing, maintaining, and governing the technical basis of design while ensuring alignment with business, operational, maintenance, and regulatory requirements. Lead the review, coordination, and approval of engineering designs, specifications, drawings, calculations, and technical deliverables to ensure compliance with project objectives, cGMP requirements, and corporate standards. Coordinate technical activities across internal stakeholders, subject matter experts, consultants, contractors, suppliers, and project teams to ensure effective execution and integration of project deliverables. Support execution of the Project Execution Plan through active participation in technical decision-making, change management, risk management, issue resolution, and project governance processes. Develop, maintain, and control technical project documentation, including scopes of work, equipment and systems inventories, action registers, decision logs, and turnover documentation. Support project reporting, stakeholder communications, and project administration activities through preparation of presentations, updates, and performance tracking metrics. Lead technical procurement activities, including development of bid packages, evaluation of vendor proposals, technical assessments, supplier selection, and management of vendor deliverables. Oversee supplier and contractor performance by coordinating inspections, Factory Acceptance Tests (FATs), equipment acceptance activities, and compliance with technical and project requirements. Coordinate commissioning, qualification, validation (CQV), and operational readiness activities to ensure successful startup, testing, and transition of systems into routine operation. Provide technical oversight and support during construction, including resolution of field issues, design clarifications, construction reviews, site inspections, and readiness assessments. Ensure effective management of handover and project closeout activities, including as-built documentation, turnover packages, system acceptance, and transition to Operations and Business Line ownership. Maintain compliance with project quality, document control, and continuous improvement requirements by ensuring document integrity, revision control, procedural adherence, and optimization of project workflows and processes. Requirements Education and Experience: Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Life Sciences, Construction Management, or a related technical discipline. Experience supporting pharmaceutical, biotechnology, life sciences, cleanroom, healthcare, or industrial capital projects. Familiarity with GMP facilities, commissioning, qualification, and validation processes. Skills/Training Strong understanding of engineering deliverables, procurement processes, and construction execution. Experience working with multidisciplinary project teams and external contractors. Proficient with MS Office, SharePoint, document management systems, and project collaboration tools. Strong organizational, communication, and technical problem-solving skills. Your Application To ensure that your application is proceeded as quickly as possible and to protect the environment, please apply online via our careers portal. Further information about Evonik as Employer can be found at www.evonik.com/en/careers.html. Please address your application to the Talent Acquisition Manager, stating your earliest possible starting date and your salary expectations. 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What you’ll do

Provide technical leadership across project design, procurement, construction, commissioning, qualification, validation, and operational readiness while ensuring alignment with project, business, regulatory, and cGMP requirements. Coordinate stakeholders and suppliers, manage technical documentation and project controls, resolve field issues, and support system handover and project closeout.

Requirements

A bachelor's degree in engineering, life sciences, construction management, or a related technical discipline is required, along with experience supporting pharmaceutical, biotechnology, life sciences, cleanroom, healthcare, or industrial capital projects. Candidates should be familiar with GMP facilities and commissioning, qualification, and validation, and have strong engineering, procurement, construction, collaboration, organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.

Listed skills

• Project Coordination · Preferred
• Change Management · Preferred
• Risk Management · Preferred
• Technical Documentation · Preferred
• Validation · Preferred

Other relevant skills

Identified from the job description. Confirm important requirements above.

• Technical Leadership
• Engineering Design Review
• Project Coordination
• Project Execution
• Change Management
• Risk Management
• Technical Documentation
• Technical Procurement
• Vendor Evaluation
• Contractor Management
• Factory Acceptance Testing
• Commissioning
• Qualification
• Validation
• Construction Oversight
• GMP Compliance

Job areas

• Engineering
• Management & Leadership
• Construction
• Manufacturing
• Healthcare