About this role
Join NNE as a Senior Project Manager – Shape the Future of Pharma Engineering in Clayton, NC: Are you passionate about leading cross-disciplinary teams and delivering projects that drive innovation in sustainable, intelligent pharmaceutical facilities? NNE is seeking a Project Manager to join our Clayton, North Carolina team. This is your chance to play a key role in projects critical to global drug production and to grow with a company specializing in end-to-end pharma engineering.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
About the job: Lead the future of pharma engineering as a Senior Project Manager at NNE in Clayton—where you’ll drive high-impact projects, manage cross-disciplinary teams, and deliver real results for global drug production. If you’re ready to innovate, collaborate, and make a difference in a dynamic environment, this is your opportunity to shine. Join us and turn your talent into meaningful progress.
Key Responsibilities
- Project Delivery: Define the strategic and tactical framework for projects and lead execution of design through construction and hand over to deliver objectives within scope, schedule, budget, and quality requirements.
- Team Leadership: Lead cross-disciplinary teams by establishing clear direction, responsibilities, and priorities, while ensuring the resources and support needed for predictable project execution are in place.
- Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain effective relationships with customers, project teams, contractors, and senior stakeholders through proactive communication, alignment, and issue resolution.
- Risk & Change Management: Proactively identify, manage, and mitigate project risks, issues, and changes to protect project objectives and business outcomes.
- Continuous Improvement & Value Creation: Drive continuous improvement and identify opportunities to enhance customer value, efficiency, and project performance.
Required Qualifications:
As a professional, you embody the energy and drive that define the culture at NNE. You thrive in the dynamic, complex, and often unpredictable environment of a project-based organization. Your strong communication skills enable you to effectively convey ideas and build productive relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
Qualifications:
- Willingness and ability to be based in Clayton, working in an agile, fast-paced, project-oriented environment that supports both customers and colleagues.
- Thrive in dynamic settings, bringing energy, structure, and empathy to every project.
- A natural communicator who builds trust quickly and leads with curiosity, confidence, and clarity.
- Passionate about solving complex problems and inspiring teams to achieve excellence.
- Continuously expand capabilities through learning, feedback, and reflection.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline.
- Minimum 5 years of project management experience, including at least 3 years in the pharmaceutical industry.
- Proven success managing mid-to-large scale design projects with total installed cost (TIC) ranging from $20M to $300M.
- Strong familiarity with GMP, project lifecycle methodologies, and design documentation standards.
- PMP certification or equivalent is a plus.
What we Offer You:
- Competitive salary with annual adjustment increases
- 160 hours of PTO (prorated from hire date) + 14 paid holidays
- Health, dental, and vision insurance from day one
- 8% guaranteed 401(k) company contribution
- 14 weeks paid parental leave
- Company-paid life and disability insurance
- Employee referral bonuses
Please submit your application online. Please note that we only accept applications submitted via our online system.
Deadline of application is 9/18/2026
We will invite to interviews on a running basis.
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