Project Lead Digital Transformation
TR/079351
Posted: 01/10/2025
- Competitive Salary
- Ireland
- Contract
Orion Group Life Sciences are currently recruiting a Project Lead - Digital Transformation on behalf of our Multinational Biopharmaceutical client based in Ireland (fully remote from Ireland) on an initial 12-month contract with huge potential to extend.
Background: We’re rolling out our Shop Floor Integration Layer (SIL) program using Inductive Automation's Ignition platform across multiple sites, and it’s a key initiative for seamless manufacturing connectivity. To keep things on track and avoid delays, the team is proposing we add a Project Lead /Project Engineer on the business side.
This role will handle coordination, planning, and issue escalation without the full weight of a traditional Project Manager, while staying deeply grounded in site-level work.
Why We Need This: The SIL program is essential for our digital manufactory maturity, enabling real-time data flow, automation, and efficiency in manufacturing. Ignition’s SCADA/MES capabilities require site-specific adaptations, and our current team is stretched. This role will bridge global goals with hands-on site execution, gathering requirements, documenting standards, and advancing progress to ensure we hit milestones and manage risks effectively. Most importantly this role would be dedicated to SIL and driving the execution as well as the change management.
Role Details: Mid-level role with 5+ years’ experience in project engineering or management, ideally with automation project management in pharma industry, industrial automation (Ignition SCADA/MES, shop floor integration, etc..). No direct reports but works with site PMs and global teams.
Key Responsibilities:
Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.
Background: We’re rolling out our Shop Floor Integration Layer (SIL) program using Inductive Automation's Ignition platform across multiple sites, and it’s a key initiative for seamless manufacturing connectivity. To keep things on track and avoid delays, the team is proposing we add a Project Lead /Project Engineer on the business side.
This role will handle coordination, planning, and issue escalation without the full weight of a traditional Project Manager, while staying deeply grounded in site-level work.
Why We Need This: The SIL program is essential for our digital manufactory maturity, enabling real-time data flow, automation, and efficiency in manufacturing. Ignition’s SCADA/MES capabilities require site-specific adaptations, and our current team is stretched. This role will bridge global goals with hands-on site execution, gathering requirements, documenting standards, and advancing progress to ensure we hit milestones and manage risks effectively. Most importantly this role would be dedicated to SIL and driving the execution as well as the change management.
Role Details: Mid-level role with 5+ years’ experience in project engineering or management, ideally with automation project management in pharma industry, industrial automation (Ignition SCADA/MES, shop floor integration, etc..). No direct reports but works with site PMs and global teams.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build detailed project plans for each site, including milestones, resources, and Ignition setups.
- Work with site PMs to customize plans, factoring in local needs and challenges.
- Follow up on tasks daily/weekly using tools like MS Teams or Ignition reports to stay on schedule.
- Send weekly updates to the global team with progress, risks, and integration metrics.
- Manage scope changes formally, checking impacts on timelines and system integrity.
- Flag and escalate issues (technical or integration-related) quickly for resolution.
- Track and coordinate support from the global team, like expertise or funding.
- Develop and document standards for shop floor integration, ensuring consistency across sites via Ignition.
- Gather key requirements from sites through consultations, workshops, or surveys to inform plans and standards.
- Advance the work forward overall, staying grounded in site realities to drive practical implementation and problem-solving.
- Expected travel up to 50% to EU and other sites globally.
Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.
Beatriz Olmedo
Lead Recruitment Consultant
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