Director, Engineering - Project Control

MSD • Wilmington, DE

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Director of Project Control is a key position in the Global Estimating Solutions, Project Business Services (PBS) Organization. The role provides effective and innovative cost and schedule solutions to business partners and supports successful execution across large strategic programs. The Director ensures essential planning, scheduling, and control elements are in place for assigned programs, leads adoption of emerging project-delivery and project-controls technologies, monitors trends and leading indicators to identify issues early, collaborates with project teams to prevent overruns and missed deadlines, and advances control and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering or a relevant discipline.
• 15+ years of applicable Project Control or Delivery-related experience in the pharmaceutical industry.
• Experience in capital project or program management from Front End Loading (FEL) through start-up and licensure.
• Strong leadership, interpersonal, and communication skills, and willingness to accept and drive change and innovation.
• Working knowledge of project cost and financial management in SAP or similar software.
• Working knowledge of scheduling and risk-analysis software, such as Primavera P6, Primavera Risk Analysis, or Microsoft Project.
• Demonstrated experience managing multidisciplinary staff and interfacing with senior leaders across an organization.
• Ability to travel across the Americas up to 25% of the time.
• Required skills include collaboration, engineering management, engineering standards, estimation and planning, leading project teams, Lean Six Sigma continuous improvement, Microsoft Project, people leadership, process improvements, project budgeting, project controls, project delivery, project implementations, and project planning.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Lean Project Delivery methodologies, such as Target Value Delivery and Last Planner.
• Lean/Six Sigma experience.
• Understanding of Microsoft Power Applications and AI.

Responsibilities

• Establish and implement Project Control-related procedures and execution plans.
• Ensure delivery of overall monthly project cost reports, including cost budgeting, forecasting, and reporting; earned-value analysis; progress measurement and schedule status; change management; risk management; and early warnings of issues.
• Support implementation of Target Value Delivery.
• Ensure development and maintenance of overall Project Spending Plans and represent submittals to Finance.
• Interface with Architect Engineer (AE) and Construction Management (CM) Project Control personnel to support timely compliance with GES procedures and reporting requirements.
• Work with internal subject matter experts in estimating and strategic scheduling to support transition from planning to execution.
• Manage project-controls staffing within the assigned program or portfolio.
• Ensure implementation of Change Management and Risk Management processes.
• Ensure timely project closures, including asset definition and assignments for fixed asset management.
• Liaise with groups outside the Engineering organization.
• Ensure minimum essential planning, scheduling, and controlling elements are in place for programs in the assigned portfolio.
• Lead change related to emerging technologies and innovations in project delivery and project controls.
• Monitor leading indicators and trends to provide early warning of issues to project teams, the E&C Lead, and Regional Directors.
• Collaborate with teams to resolve problems before they result in overruns or missed deadlines.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision healthcare, and other insurance benefits for employees and their families.
• Retirement benefits, including 401(k).
• Paid holidays, vacation, compassionate days, and sick days.
• Eligible for an annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director