Construction Lead

Blackfield Associates are currently partnered with a global pharmaceutical manufacturer to support their search for an Construction Lead to join their project based in Indiana on an initial 12-month contract. Key Responsibilities Lead construction oversight activities across the project, ensuring work is delivered safely, compliantly, and in accordance with approved scope, schedule, budget, and quality requirements. Act as the primary construction interface between the owner, construction management partner, contractors, engineering teams, and commissioning and qualification teams. Monitor construction progress, contractor performance, schedule adherence, cost trends, and critical path activities, ensuring risks are identified and addressed proactively. Drive a strong culture of safety, quality, compliance, and right-first-time execution across all project stakeholders. Verify that construction activities are executed in line with approved designs, specifications, regulatory requirements, and GMP expectations. Lead field inspections, quality reviews, and compliance verification activities to ensure construction work meets project standards. Identify, assess, and elevate construction risks, quality concerns, schedule impacts, and interface issues to project leadership for resolution. Support mechanical completion, turnover readiness, and system handover activities by ensuring construction completeness and documentation readiness. Coordinate punch list development, tracking, and closure to support project milestones and turnover objectives. Review construction plans, schedules, forecasts, and performance metrics to validate delivery against project objectives. Collaborate with construction management partners and contractors to support issue resolution and implement corrective actions where required. Maintain regular communication with project leadership, providing updates on construction status, risks, progress, and readiness. Foster collaboration between engineering, construction, quality, CQV, and operations teams to ensure successful project delivery. Experience Required Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or a related technical discipline. Sufficient experience leading major construction projects within pharmaceutical, biotechnology, life sciences, or process manufacturing industries. Proven experience working in a client-side leadership role on large, complex capital projects. Strong knowledge of construction management systems, project controls, progress measurement, and reporting methodologies. Experience overseeing construction execution for process equipment, piping systems, HVAC, electrical, instrumentation, and utility installations. Strong understanding of mechanical completion, system turnover, commissioning readiness, and GMP documentation requirements. Demonstrated ability to manage contractor performance, construction quality, safety compliance, and project risk. Excellent leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills. Experience working in fast-paced, highly regulated project environments with multiple contractors and stakeholders. Professional certification such as PMP, CEng, MCIOB, or equivalent is preferred. #J-18808-Ljbffr