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Senior Project Planner (Pharma CAPEX Projects)
Location: Germany / DACH Region (Hybrid)
Travel: Approximately 50% across the DACH region
Employment Type: Permanent

Our client, a globally recognised project and programme management consultancy, is seeking an experienced Senior Project Planner to support the successful delivery of complex capital investment (CAPEX) projects within the pharmaceutical sector.

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled planning professional with extensive experience in large-scale projects, scheduling, and project controls. You will play a key role in driving project performance through robust planning, progress management, schedule analysis, and stakeholder engagement.

Key Responsibilities

Maintain, update, and quality assure project schedules using Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project in accordance with established planning standards. Support the development of integrated project schedules, consolidating inputs from multiple disciplines and project workstreams. Produce schedule analyses, look-ahead plans, project reports, KPI dashboards, and critical path analyses. Monitor and track project progress, providing trend analysis and performance reporting. Review and integrate contractor schedules, ensuring completeness and compliance with agreed planning standards. Support change management, risk assessments, scenario planning, and the maintenance of planning and progress data. Collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams, project stakeholders, and international partners to ensure successful project delivery.

Candidate Requirements

Degree or equivalent qualification in Engineering, Construction, Project Management, or a related discipline. Approximately 10 years or more of project planning and scheduling experience. Proven experience independently managing planning and scheduling activities on major capital projects. Experience working within pharmaceutical, life sciences, or highly regulated environments is preferred. Strong practical experience with Microsoft Project, with Primavera P6 expertise highly desirable. Sound understanding of WBS-based planning, scheduling logic, progress measurement, and project reporting. Experience managing complex project structures involving multiple stakeholders and contractors. Strong analytical, organisational, and problem-solving abilities. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively at all organisational levels. Fluent German and English language skills, both written and spoken. Willingness to travel throughout the DACH region as required.

Eden Brown is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

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M&E Senior Project manager
Location: Berlin

Great opportunity to work on multiple projects in a live data centre ensuring project are managed and handed back in a timely manner.
As the post holder, you will be expected to have expertise in working within mission critical facilities such as complex Tier 3 or above Data Centres.


A definitive understanding of building services systems, contingency procedures and be proactive in passing on this knowledge through development of the engineering team.

The Project Manager will be ensuring the required standards are met and exceeded when operating critical infrastructure and reducing the down time on Projects within that operating paradigm
To ensure the highest engineering standards are achieved and maintained at all times by both 3rd party specialist and engineering staff alike.
To oversee competencies of 3rd party specialist and engineering staff, train, coach and mentor the engineering team to ensure maximum critical infrastructure uptime.
Act as a champion for health and safety on the account and work with the local team, our vendors, and our client to maintain the highest standards.

Key Tasks

Ensure compliance with Client procedures and Client Risk Management Framework, through the effective management of SOP, MOP and EOP.
Operate all systems within the buildings in a competent, effective and efficient manner (including HV isolations/operations).
Having due regard to business risk and energy use.
Making recommendations for improvement and providing concise technical reports when required.
Working closely with the engineering team you should ensure that for Specialist Sub Contractors visits have been prepared and approved Standard Operating Procedures/ MOP/PTW/ Client change requests.
Ensure that Specialist Sub Contractor worksheets are signed off where necessary, that quality of work has been inspected and recommendations are communicated by the Site Personnel.
To provide technical support to the engineering team, and take ownership of Incident Reports and After Incident Reviews when required.
Take a leading role in the technical development of all members of the engineering team.

Working in partnership with Client stakeholders to drive improvements engineering competency.
Attend weekly operations meetings, client meetings as requested, in conjunction with the Account Manager.
Ensure the asset database and electronic O&M systems are correct and up to date.
Drive a culture within the team, where energy saving and environmental sustainability is a natural behaviour.
Production of quotation for critical infrastructure enhancement / remedial works

Project management oversight, Operation and trouble shooting


Personal Qualities:

Minimum of 5 years relevant experience in Data Centre or Critical Environment project delivery
A nationally recognised M&E qualification to at least HND standard or 10 year's relevant experience
Strong communication skills and the ability to deal with all levels of staff.
Ability to lead, motivate and direct a small team of technicians/operatives.
Proactive in achieving the highest standard of operation.
Have good IT and report writing skills.

Your expert recruitment consultant is Trevor Parsons, call today on 0207 422 7377 or email [email protected] Eden Brown is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Eden Brown is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

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