Job Description
Position: Senior Project Manager – Capital Engineering
Location: Lake County, IL | Onsite 5 days per week - local candidates are preferred
Duration: 24–36-month contract
Duration: 24–36-month contract
Pay Range $70.00 -$85.00
Join our Sterling Engineering team supporting a pharmaceutical manufacturer’s Global Engineering Services organization. We’re seeking a Senior Project Manager with 10+ years of U.S. experience to lead multiple concurrent capital engineering projects across Lake County facilities.
This role requires someone who can take ownership of project scope, budgets, schedules, and execution while coordinating engineering teams, contractors, vendors, and internal stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Independently manage multiple capital engineering projects simultaneously.
- Own project scope, budgets, schedules, execution, and deliverables.
- Coordinate internal engineering teams, contractors, vendors, and stakeholders.
- Manage project risks, scope changes, capital expenditures, and timelines.
- Lead projects through design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and turnover, as applicable.
- Communicate project status, resolve issues, and keep stakeholders aligned.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.
- Proven experience managing capital engineering projects.
- Demonstrated ability to independently manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Strong project scheduling, budgeting, vendor management, and stakeholder coordination skills.
- Pharmaceutical, medical device, or regulated manufacturing experience.
- Experience with facilities, utilities, infrastructure, or manufacturing CapEx projects.
- Background working within an established corporate engineering organization.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Waukegan, IL |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $70–$85 Per Hour |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://www.sterling-engineering.com |
About Company
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.
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