Project Controls Managers & Directors - Project Farma
About The Position
Project Farma is expanding its Project Controls practice and is considering candidates with 5–15 years of relevant experience. Candidates must reside within 50 miles of Raleigh, North Carolina, and be willing to travel domestically as required by client projects. Project Farma delivers life-sciences projects across the full project lifecycle, supporting project planning, cost, schedule, and performance management through cross-functional collaboration and data-driven insights. Project Controls Managers and Directors collaborate with clients, vendors, contractors, and Project Farma team members on biomanufacturing projects throughout the engineering lifecycle. They apply advanced technical skills to deliver project-controls work, build and maintain long-term client relationships, and contribute to business growth. They also lead project engineers and are accountable for high-quality deliverables, including project plans and milestone reports, detailed schedules, activity and variance reports, budget estimates and forecasts, risk and scenario analyses, change-impact analyses, and monthly status reports. The role includes integrated schedule, cost, and performance management; analysis and reporting; project-controls systems and data integrity; stakeholder alignment; and team leadership. The successful candidate will provide technical direction, training, mentoring, career development, and performance assessments, and may support the development of service-line or market strategies and the growth of client accounts. Project Farma expects team members to be curious, personable, and unselfish, with a patient-focused and people-first mindset. Successful candidates demonstrate technical expertise, continuous improvement, professionalism, integrity, collaboration, reliable project execution, and openness to feedback and change. The role may require significant travel. Applicants must be authorized to work full-time in the United States; visa sponsorship is not available. A valid driver's license is required.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree (and/or master’s degree) in technical sciences, engineering, regulatory studies, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience in project controls, general construction, cGMP facility start-up, project management, or comparable military experience.
- 7–13 years of experience required; the posting states the practice will consider candidates with 5–15 years of relevant experience.
- Advanced experience with Microsoft Excel.
- Willingness to travel as required for client project assignments, including significant domestic travel when needed.
- Must reside within 50 miles of Raleigh, North Carolina.
- Must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis; visa sponsorship is not available.
- Must have a valid driver's license.
- Demonstrated advanced technical knowledge and professional expertise, strong communication and collaboration, reliable project execution, professionalism, integrity, and a growth mindset.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Microsoft Project, Oracle Primavera P6, and/or Smartsheet.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
Responsibilities
- Lead project-controls work for biomanufacturing projects across the engineering lifecycle and deliver high-quality project-controls outputs.
- Lead project engineers and coordinate their performance and deliverables, including project plans, milestone reports, detailed schedules, activity and variance reports, budget estimates, cost reports and forecasts, risk and scenario analyses, change-impact analyses, and monthly status reports.
- Analyze complex project data and communicate concise, clear findings to support decision-making.
- Prepare project-controls reports, dashboards, management summaries, and performance metrics independently.
- Integrate inputs from Project Coordinators, field teams, vendors, clients, and cross-functional stakeholders, and remain accountable for final project-controls outputs.
- Communicate project status, schedule impacts, field decisions, and downstream effects on scope, cost, schedule, and resources promptly.
- Provide hands-on client support and troubleshooting through the engineering lifecycle for equipment and manufacturing processes.
- Develop project tools, including site dashboards, detailed schedules, and deliverable trackers.
- Perform due diligence and quality checks to produce high-quality deliverables; identify and escalate roadblocks and develop solutions.
- Build technical expertise in life-sciences project-controls areas, including capital projects, facility shutdowns and turnarounds, technology transfers, enterprise system integrations, validation, quality and compliance, GxP automated systems, quality control, and operational readiness.
- Lead and maintain integrated project schedules, including baselines, updates, metrics, and look-ahead planning.
- Develop and maintain schedules, cost models, progress-tracking tools, and performance reports; perform schedule logic updates, progress status, forecasting, variance analysis, and recovery planning.
- Track and challenge installed quantities, productivity, and earned values to support cost and schedule forecasts.
- Monitor cost performance, change impacts, and forecast trends with the Project Manager; identify 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 dashboards and metrics aligned with project and corporate requirements.
- Analyze schedule, cost, and performance data; review, challenge, and improve project-controls reporting.
- Design, implement, and maintain approved project-controls systems, coding structures, and procedures; ensure data accuracy, consistency, and integrity.
- Guide project teams on controls processes, data requirements, and reporting standards, and improve project-level workflows and reporting efficiency.
- Align and coordinate with client departments such as Design, Construction, Validation, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, and Engineering.
- Define required project-controls inputs, formats, and timelines; review and validate Project Coordinator inputs before incorporation into project-controls systems.
- Provide ongoing guidance and feedback to Project Coordinators and coordinate with other teams so field execution is accurately reflected in project controls.
- Lead initiatives and projects by clarifying goals and responsibilities, managing priorities, and ensuring timely, high-quality work.
- Provide technical direction, training, mentorship, career development, and performance assessments for project team members.
- Develop service-line or market strategies and procedures for 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
