Project Developer
About the role
The Project Developer is responsible for developing technical concepts, process solutions, and engineering deliverables during early project phases for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and life sciences. The role translates client requirements and user requirements specifications into practical project concepts, technical scopes, and proposal-ready engineering packages. Working closely with project managers, process engineers, automation engineers, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, fabrication and delivery teams, and external design partners, the Project Developer helps define project scope, evaluate technical alternatives, identify risks, and support successful project handover into execution.
Location: King of Prussia
Contract: Full-time employee, Start: 05.10.2026
Responsibilities
- Develop conceptual and basic engineering solutions for pharmaceutical, biotech, life sciences.
- Analyze client requirements, user requirements specifications (URS), technical design criteria, site constraints, and project objectives.
- Define process and facility concepts, including process flows, equipment requirements, utility interfaces, layout considerations, and project assumptions.
- Evaluate technical options, identify engineering risks, compare alternative concepts, and recommend practical, cost-effective project solutions.
- Support feasibility studies, conceptual design studies, basic engineering packages, and front-end engineering design (FEED) activities.
- Coordinate closely with process, mechanical, automation, electrical, fabrication, and delivery teams during project development.
- Coordinate with external partners for HVAC, MEP, architectural, civil, and other specialist design disciplines as required.
- Ensure technical concepts are aligned across engineering disciplines, stakeholder expectations, client requirements, and project execution strategy.
- Support multidisciplinary design packages, technical workshops, constructability reviews, and project transition from development to execution.