Project Controls Managers & Directors - Project Farma

PerkinElmer•Raleigh, NC

About The Position

Project Farma, part of PerkinElmer, is growing its Project Controls practice and is considering candidates with relevant experience. The role supports life-sciences and biomanufacturing projects throughout the engineering lifecycle. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with clients, vendors, contractors, and Project Farma colleagues, applying advanced project-controls expertise to deliver high-quality project work and maintain long-term client relationships. The position is based within 50 miles of Raleigh, North Carolina, and requires domestic travel as needed for client assignments and business needs. The manager or director leads project-controls deliverables and project-engineering team members. Deliverables include project plans and milestone reports; detailed schedules; activity and variance reports; budget estimates, cost reports, and forecast analyses; issue, risk, and scenario analyses; scope and change-impact analyses; and monthly project-status reports. The role includes hands-on support for clients working through engineering projects involving advanced equipment and manufacturing processes. The position leads schedule, cost, performance, reporting, analytics, systems, data-integrity, and stakeholder-management activities. It develops and maintains integrated schedules, cost models, tracking tools, dashboards, metrics, reports, project-controls systems, coding structures, and procedures. The role analyzes project performance, identifies risks and variances, recommends mitigation or recovery actions, and ensures project-controls data and reporting are accurate and consistent. The role also coordinates project-controls contributors and cross-functional client teams, provides technical direction and mentorship to team members, and supports service-line or market growth. Responsibilities include client-account management and seeking opportunities to maintain and grow accounts. Project Farma expects team members to be curious, personable, unselfish, patient-focused, and people-first, and to demonstrate professionalism, integrity, collaboration, clear communication, continuous improvement, and reliable project execution.

Requirements

7–13 years of experience required.
Bachelor’s degree and/or master’s degree in technical sciences, engineering, regulatory studies, or a related discipline; alternatively, equivalent experience in project controls, general construction, cGMP facility start-up, project management, or comparable military experience.
Advanced experience with Microsoft Excel.
Willingness to travel as required for client project assignments.
Must reside within 50 miles of Raleigh, North Carolina.
Must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis; the employer will not sponsor current or future work visas.
Must have a valid driver’s license.
Demonstrated advanced technical expertise in project controls and the ability to deliver high-quality project work.
Ability to communicate clearly and proactively, collaborate with clients and stakeholders, and manage priorities while delivering reliable, high-quality outcomes.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Microsoft Project, Oracle Primavera P6, and/or Smartsheet.
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.

Responsibilities

Analyze complex project data and communicate clear, concise insights to support decision-making.
Prepare project-controls reports, dashboards, management summaries, and performance metrics independently.
Integrate inputs from project coordinators, field teams, vendors, and cross-functional stakeholders, maintaining accountability for final project-controls outputs.
Communicate project status, schedule impacts, and field decisions promptly, including downstream impacts to scope, cost, schedule, and resources.
Provide hands-on client support and troubleshoot issues across the engineering lifecycle of equipment and manufacturing processes.
Develop project tools such as site dashboards, detailed schedules, and deliverable trackers.
Perform due diligence and quality checks to produce high-quality project deliverables.
Identify and escalate roadblocks and develop solutions using critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
Develop technical capability in life-sciences project-controls areas, including capital projects, facility shutdowns and turnarounds, technology transfers, enterprise integrations, validation, GxP automated systems, quality control, and operational readiness.
Lead and maintain integrated project schedules, including baselines, updates, metrics, and look-ahead planning.
Develop, maintain, and update schedules, cost models, progress-tracking tools, and performance reports.
Perform schedule-logic updates, status tracking, forecasting, variance analysis, and recovery planning.
Track and challenge installed quantities, productivity, and earned value to support cost and schedule forecasting.
Monitor cost performance, change impacts, and forecast trends with the Project Manager.
Identify schedule and cost variances, risks, and opportunities, and recommend mitigation or recovery actions.
Prepare and issue weekly, monthly, and ad hoc internal and external project-controls reports.
Develop and maintain project dashboards and performance metrics aligned with project and corporate requirements.
Analyze schedule, cost, and performance data and review, challenge, and improve project-controls reports.
Design, implement, and maintain approved project-controls systems, coding structures, and procedures.
Ensure the accuracy, consistency, and integrity of project-controls data across systems and reports.
Guide project teams on controls processes, data requirements, and reporting standards, and improve project-level workflows and reporting efficiency.
Align cross-functional client departments, including design, construction, validation, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and engineering.
Direct and coordinate project-controls support activities, defining inputs, formats, and timelines.
Review and validate project-coordinator inputs, including quantities, progress updates, and documentation, before incorporating them into project-controls systems.
Provide ongoing guidance and feedback to project coordinators to support accurate and consistent data.
Coordinate with other teams so that field execution is accurately reflected in project controls.
Lead initiatives and projects, clarify team and individual goals and responsibilities, manage priorities, and ensure timely, high-quality work.
Provide technical direction, training, mentorship, career development, and performance assessments for project team members.
Develop strategies and procedures for service-line or market success, including planning, scheduling, estimating, monitoring, progress measurement, risk management, training, and reporting.
Manage new and existing client accounts, focus on project delivery, and seek to maintain and grow accounts in line with organizational growth targets.
Travel as required for client project assignments and business needs.