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From the employer's careers site First seen 27 Oct 2026 · Still live on 30 Oct 2026

Project Manager - Central Utilities Building / Incinerator / Wastewater Treatment

Pharmaceuticals Columbus, Ohio Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$176,000 - $264,000 per year

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Description

At Bayer, we believe work should matter. Every day, our teams push toward a future where 'Health for all, Hunger for none' is within reach, and every role, from the lab to the field to the boardroom, helps us get there.

As a Project Manager - Central Utilities Building / Incinerator / Wastewater Treatment, you will be accountable for the planning and delivery of the utilities and environmental-infrastructure scope within a greenfield API and DP manufacturing campus.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead the assigned scope from design development through procurement coordination, construction, commissioning, performance testing, qualification, and operational handover.
  • Ensure utilities and treatment systems are available, reliable, and capable of supporting campus start-up and sustained operation.
  • Establish the area execution strategy, scope baseline, system boundaries, delivery packages, and acceptance requirements.
  • Coordinate capacity, load diversity, redundancy, turndown, reliability, and future-expansion requirements with responsible stakeholders.
  • Own delivery against the approved area budget and schedule, including forecast inputs, progress assessment, and corrective actions.
  • Coordinate procurement packages and long-lead equipment priorities with Project Services.
  • Lead technical specifications, technical bid evaluations, vendor reviews, and equipment acceptance activities.
  • Assess proposed changes for capital cost, lifecycle implications, schedule, capacity, and operating performance.
  • Coordinate with EHS and permitting specialists to incorporate permit conditions, emissions limits, discharge requirements, and monitoring obligations.
  • Ensure design inputs address expected waste characteristics, operating ranges, abnormal conditions, and required safeguards.
  • Direct assigned construction activities through delivery partners and resolve equipment, piping, controls, and civil interfaces.
  • Coordinate safe energization, utility introduction, commissioning access, and transition of system ownership.
  • Lead integrated testing of utility generation, distribution, controls, and treatment-system interfaces.
  • Coordinate performance testing against approved capacity, reliability, emissions, discharge, and other acceptance criteria.
  • Ensure operating procedures, operator training, maintenance plans, calibration requirements, asset records, and critical spares are ready.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Chemical, Environmental, Civil Engineering, or a related discipline.
  • At least 10 years of relevant engineering or capital-project experience.
  • Demonstrated leadership of major utility, industrial-treatment, or environmental-infrastructure projects.
  • Strong understanding of central utility plants, wastewater treatment, incineration, environmental compliance, process safety, and commissioning.
  • Proven multidisciplinary leadership, contractor-management, commercial awareness, and cost and schedule management skills.
  • Fluent English required.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience on projects exceeding USD 500 million.
  • Pharmaceutical or regulated manufacturing experience.

Salary Range: $176,000.00 - $264,000.00 per year

Benefits: Health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc.

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
  • Regulated Manufacturing
  • Large-Scale Projects

Ready to apply?

You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://talent.bayer.com/careers/job/562949978794174

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