As a CQV Project Planner/Scheduler, you will work with highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams nurturing a strong social dynamic and a shared sense of achievement. You will gain vast industry experience that will open doors for you, extend your skillset and expand your perspective. We will empower, support, and enable you to take real responsibility in your role so that you can take charge of your career progression with us. For us lasting trusted relationships are everything, both with our teams and our clients.​

In this role you will:​

• Build project schedules encompassing the full project scope, milestones and timelines, using critical path methodology, with specific attention to commissioning, qualification and validation (CQV) phases for process equipment.

• Ensure clear responsibility and ownership for all project outcomes is defined via Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) methodology, including equipment FAT, SAT, IQ/OQ/PQ activities.

• Align schedules with the project execution plan, contracting, procurement and project control strategy documents, ensuring CQV deliverables are fully integrated.

• Establish a clear method for baselining schedules and managing periodic updates, capturing key qualification milestones such as protocol approvals, execution, and final reports.

• Manage the fully integrated project schedule and structure it to allow review at a range of levels and details, ensuring visibility of construction, commissioning, and equipment qualification interdependencies.

• Negotiate and mediate timelines and project interdependencies between construction, engineering, CQV, QA, and vendor teams to ensure compliance with GMP and regulatory requirements.

• Provide regular updates on schedule progress, highlighting risks and mitigation strategies specific to equipment qualification and validation activities.

• Review external schedules to ensure they are compiled using scheduling best practices and that CQV activities are appropriately represented and resourced.

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We would love to hear from you if you:​

• 5+ years of planning and scheduling experience in pharmaceutical construction projects, including integration of commissioning and equipment qualification (FAT/SAT, IQ/OQ/PQ).

• Hands-on expertise with Primavera P6; able to develop, maintain, and analyze complex project schedules.

• Experience with Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) and strong ability to communicate findings to key stakeholders.

• Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or related field (or equivalent experience).

• Knowledge of GMP/regulatory requirements and how they impact project scheduling.

• Detail-oriented, quality-focused, and comfortable managing competing priorities in a dynamic environment.

• Willingness to be based in Tianjin for the duration of the project.

All interviews are conducted either in person or virtually with video required.

Linesight is a highly successful global project and cost management consultancy that keeps clients coming back. And for that we have our people to thank. You see we’re not like the others. We’re different. Unique. It’s our fresh thinking and focus on what matters that has led to our evolving. We are on a journey working in some of the most exciting innovative sectors with some of the world’s most prestigious companies delivering major projects that deliver a more sustainable built environment. We have an open culture and a flat structure where you can expect to be treated with genuine care, respect, and empathy. With Linesight, you can truly discover the power of team!

Diversity, inclusion and accessibility  

Linesight is committed to transparent, equal opportunity employment practices. We are building a diverse and inclusive organisation, accessible to all, based on having a safe culture which enables all our people to be their true selves. We are a people business, and we understand that the more inclusive we are, the happier our people and better our work will be. We will ensure that individuals with disability are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or recruitment process and are accommodated in the workplace. If you require assistance or accommodation of any kind, please mention this in your application, we would love to hear from you!