Assistant Project Responsible

Burnaby, BC, Canada

Full-time

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Job type: Full-time
Apply by: Nov 15, 2026
Posting language: English
Posted: Oct 16, 2026

Original job description

10/16/2026

Assistant Project Responsible

What We Offer

At Evonik, you’re part of a global chemical company working in many sectors that go beyond chemistry. From lipids for tomorrow’s medicines, biosurfactants for green detergents, additives for plastics recycling or membranes to help drive forward the energy transition, you’ll play an essential part in helping the world’s most essential industries succeed.

Our success hinges on a diversity of ideas powered by people, not egos. Whether you’re a scientist or engineer, new to the team or established, in business, production, or anything in between – we cheer each other on. Because we believe we can do anything. Explore everything. And Be Part of Something Special!

Find Out More About The Many Benefits We Offer

https://www.evonik.com/en/careers/why.html

Meet the team and get to know the people behind Evonik:

https://www.evonik.com/en/news/meet-the-team.html

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership for the project by establishing, maintaining, and governing the technical basis of design while ensuring alignment with business, operational, maintenance, and regulatory requirements.
Lead the review, coordination, and approval of engineering designs, specifications, drawings, calculations, and technical deliverables to ensure compliance with project objectives, cGMP requirements, and corporate standards.
Coordinate technical activities across internal stakeholders, subject matter experts, consultants, contractors, suppliers, and project teams to ensure effective execution and integration of project deliverables.
Support execution of the Project Execution Plan through active participation in technical decision-making, change management, risk management, issue resolution, and project governance processes.
Develop, maintain, and control technical project documentation, including scopes of work, equipment and systems inventories, action registers, decision logs, and turnover documentation.
Support project reporting, stakeholder communications, and project administration activities through preparation of presentations, updates, and performance tracking metrics.
Lead technical procurement activities, including development of bid packages, evaluation of vendor proposals, technical assessments, supplier selection, and management of vendor deliverables.
Oversee supplier and contractor performance by coordinating inspections, Factory Acceptance Tests (FATs), equipment acceptance activities, and compliance with technical and project requirements.
Coordinate commissioning, qualification, validation (CQV), and operational readiness activities to ensure successful startup, testing, and transition of systems into routine operation.
Provide technical oversight and support during construction, including resolution of field issues, design clarifications, construction reviews, site inspections, and readiness assessments.
Ensure effective management of handover and project closeout activities, including as-built documentation, turnover packages, system acceptance, and transition to Operations and Business Line ownership.
Maintain compliance with project quality, document control, and continuous improvement requirements by ensuring document integrity, revision control, procedural adherence, and optimization of project workflows and processes.

Requirements

Education and Experience:

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Life Sciences, Construction Management, or a related technical discipline.
Experience supporting pharmaceutical, biotechnology, life sciences, cleanroom, healthcare, or industrial capital projects.
Familiarity with GMP facilities, commissioning, qualification, and validation processes.

Skills/Training

Strong understanding of engineering deliverables, procurement processes, and construction execution.
Experience working with multidisciplinary project teams and external contractors.
Proficient with MS Office, SharePoint, document management systems, and project collaboration tools.
Strong organizational, communication, and technical problem-solving skills.

Your Application

To ensure that your application is proceeded as quickly as possible and to protect the environment, please apply online via our careers portal. Further information about Evonik as Employer can be found at www.evonik.com/en/careers.html.

Please address your application to the Talent Acquisition Manager, stating your earliest possible starting date and your salary expectations.

Your Talent Acquisition Manager

Robin Rose

Company is

Evonik Canada Inc.

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Job Details

Canada | Burnaby, BC

Full time

10/16/2026

Engineering

R52431

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Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership across project design, procurement, construction, commissioning, qualification, validation, and operational readiness while ensuring alignment with project, business, regulatory, and cGMP requirements. Coordinate stakeholders and suppliers, manage technical documentation and project controls, resolve field issues, and support system handover and project closeout.

Requirements

A bachelor's degree in engineering, life sciences, construction management, or a related technical discipline is required, along with experience supporting pharmaceutical, biotechnology, life sciences, cleanroom, healthcare, or industrial capital projects. Candidates should be familiar with GMP facilities and commissioning, qualification, and validation, and have strong engineering, procurement, construction, collaboration, organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.

Skills

Technical Leadership
Engineering Design Review
Project Coordination
Project Execution
Change Management
Risk Management
Technical Documentation
Technical Procurement
Vendor Evaluation
Contractor Management
Factory Acceptance Testing
Commissioning
Qualification
Validation
Construction Oversight
GMP Compliance

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Hiring contact

Robin Rose

Keywords

Engineering
Capital Projects
Pharmaceutical
Biotechnology
Life Sciences
GMP
cGMP
Cleanroom
Commissioning
Qualification
Validation
CQV
Project Execution Plan
Technical Basis of Design
Engineering Deliverables
Procurement
Vendor Proposals
Factory Acceptance Tests
Construction Execution
Operational Readiness
Change Management
Risk Management
Document Control
SharePoint
MS Office
Project Collaboration Tools
Turnover Documentation
Equipment Acceptance
As-Built Documentation

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