Facilities Project Engineer Resume

Desired Industry: Biotech	SpiderID: 26155
Desired Job Location: Spencer, Massachusetts	Date Posted: 4/19/2009
Type of Position: Full-Time Permanent	Availability Date: Immediate
Desired Wage: 80,000
	U.S. Work Authorization: Yes
Job Level: Management (Manager, Director)	Willing to Travel: Yes, Less Than 25%
Highest Degree Attained: Bachelors	Willing to Relocate: Yes

Objective:
Mechanical Engineer with 20 years of cGMP capital project engineering experience. Recognized for the ability to complete projects successfully, drive cost savings, and technical problem solving. Experience includes managing multiple projects from specifying and purchasing, installing high PLC based labeling and packaging lines as well as construction of research laboratories and cubical and executive office spaces. Managed construction projects from feasibility and conceptual design through startup and turnover. Responsible for costing, scheduling and installation. Self directed and highly motivated, with proven ability to make an immediate impact to the business.

Experience:
GreenFuel Technologies Corp Cambridge MA May 2008 to Oct 2008
Facilities Project Engineer Contract through NESC
• Responsible for managing, reviewing and specifying multiple expansion projects for sustained Algae to Bio-Diesel process.
• Projects include laboratory design build and relocation and office design, build and relocation.
• Responsibilities include determining project feasibility, managing and implementing capital equipment projects, costing scheduling and installing in a timely manner and on budget.

Alkermes Chelsea, MA 2005 to 2008
Facility Engineer
• Accountable for day to day management of multiple pharmaceutical projects.
• Responsible for reviewing and specifying expansion projects to sustain pharmaceutical drug manufacturing for phase 3 clinical trials.
• Responsible for ensuring that project schedules are met, invoices paid and project are kept on budget.
• Projects include clean water systems (RO/DI, and HPW), utility systems, laboratory design and build, and traffic flow, and validation activities.
• Pharmaceutical Drying of Drug Project and design and implementation of a Quality Testing laboratory.
• Maintenance and machine shop supervision, welding within the facilities and fabrication of custom safety platform were among responsibilities.
• Validation (IQ,OQ,PQ activities)
• Safety board where we conducted bi-monthly audits and walkthroughs of the facility

MicroTest Laboratories Agawam, MA 2004 - 2005
Manager of Facilities and Validation Engineering
• Day to day facilities management of the MicroTest Campus. Buildings include office, laboratories and cGMP manufacturing spaces.
• Managed a 20,000 ft2 expansion to include coordinating all validation activities for laboratory and manufacturing operations.
• Construction management of laboratory spaces, office environments and manufacturing spaces.
• Responsible for feasibility, costing, scheduling and installation of expansion
• Instrumental in initiating Safety Committee at MicroTest.
• Managed Maintenance Department.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Billerica, MA 2002 - 2003
Project Engineer
• Responsible for the construction and renovation of clinical manufacturing facility.
• Supervised necessary renovation of space to accommodate new machinery. Negotiated with end users to redesign space according to needs and requirements.
• Responsible for the project from receipt of conception and feasibility testing, costing, scheduling and installation of project.

AstraZeneca Westborough, MA 1998 - 2002
Project Engineer
• Team Leader responsible for capitol projects in a high volume pharmaceutical manufacturing facility.
• Interface with the equipment builders to resolve design issues. Coordination of documentation including drawings and acceptance testing, commissioning and startup of new capitol equipment.
• Successfully managed $1.2MM in projects per year, on-time and within budget.
• Projects include:
o Web based labeling lines for dental cartridges, vials and lidded blister packaging lines
o Integrated packaging line that assembled drug product and inserted folded leaflets, checked weighed all components, and collated a “brick” of product
o Inspection lines for vials, ampoules, and tube products
o Dry heat de-pyrogenation tunnel ovens retrofit and modernization
o Blow fill seal punch and de-flash finishing and processing projects
• Vendor negotiations to manage the project time line and coordinate utilities and installations
• Project specification, design and integration concepts, machine concepts and coordination of all phases of projects from documentation and validation through startup and commissioning

Education:
BS in Mechanical Engineering Technology
Northeastern University, Boston, MA

Project Management
WPI Continuing Education, Worcester, MA

OSHA 10 Hour General Industry Course
OSHA certification number 700430321

Affiliations:
ISPE
NTSAD

Additional Information:
Applications / Project
• Parenteral filling
• High speed web based labeling
• Lidding, packaging, and blister line
• Topical filling
• Inhaled spray dry
• Dry powder filling
• Liquid suspension filling
• Integrated high speed packaging
• Bio diesel research laboratory
• Executive office renovation
• Current with cGMP practices

Technical Competencies
• Project feasibility
• Process line layout
• Laboratory design
• Capital equipment project management
• Construction project management
• Critical and Clean utilities
• Pharmaceutical and Bioprocesses
• Machine shop operations, scheduling and supervision
• Validation, Six Sigma
• HVAC
• Gackup Power, UPS Power, One Line Diagrams

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