Validation Engineer III - Project Farma
About The Position
This is a full-time salaried position with Project Farma, a PerkinElmer company. The successful candidate will reside in one of Project Farma's primary markets and be willing to travel domestically to meet client project requests. Project Farma’s purpose is to improve patient lives by accelerating the delivery of life-changing therapies. We accomplish this through the successful execution of high-quality life sciences projects across the full project lifecycle. Project Farma (PF) team members collaborate with cross-functional teams to build trusted client relationships, deliver an exceptional customer experience, and contribute to business growth by identifying opportunities and applying data-driven insights to support project planning, cost, schedule, and performance management. All team members are expected to embody Project Farma’s values by being curious, personable, and unselfish, while maintaining a strong commitment to a Patient Focused and People First mindset. The Validation Engineer III is an experienced technical leader who serves as a subject-matter expert and drives complex workstreams from planning through execution. This role applies advanced technical expertise and strong understanding of project objectives to solve complex problems, influence technical direction, and deliver high-quality outcomes. Senior Engineers independently lead workstreams, proactively identify risks and improvement opportunities, and ensure alignment with client and business expectations. They act as trusted advisors to project teams and stakeholders while demonstrating leadership through mentorship, quality ownership, and cross-functional collaborations. This role requires strategic problem-solving, sound judgement, and a high level of accountability in driving results.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Life Science, Engineering, or related discipline (OR a combination of equivalent work experience in capital project engineering, pharma cGMP facility start-up, CapEx/OpEx project management and/or comparable military experience.
- 2-4 years in consulting and/or engineering services
- Willingness to travel as required for client project assignments.
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
- This position may require significant travel to support project and business needs.
- We cannot employ anyone with an invalid driver's license.
Nice To Haves
- Full-time on-site client presence
- Willingness to travel up to 100% or as required.
Responsibilities
- Execute specific technical tasks within a project, ensuring high-quality deliverables.
- Perform CQV tasks, such as protocol development or equipment testing, under the Site Lead’s guidance.
- Report technical issues to the Site Lead and support resolution efforts.
- Ensure tasks meet client specifications, regulatory requirements (e.g., FDA, GMP), and industry standards.
- Author technical documents: SOPs, requirements specifications, testing protocols, summary reports, etc.
- Identify and close individual knowledge gaps with support from other team members or leads as needed.
- Execute system and process validation protocols by using GxP best practices.
- Support necessary billables as forecasted by site dashboards on billable targets per month.
- Report workload or skill gaps within assigned tasks.
- Communicate updates internally in a timely manner and relay in-field project decisions to highlight long-range, down-stream project and team impacts.
- Provide hands-on support and troubleshooting for clients navigating the engineering life cycle of cutting-edge equipment and manufacturing processes.
- Perform due diligence on system and subject domains to generate high-quality project deliverables.
- Proactively identify and escalate roadblocks and utilize critical thinking skills and knowledge of problem- solving skills to identify creative solutions to those problems and roadblocks.
- General understanding of Earned Value Analysis (EVA) and project management tools
- May be requested to assist with Project Controls and Scheduling to include; Budget estimates, detailed project schedules and milestones, feasibility estimates, risks, forecasts and scenario analysis and project cost reports and analysis.
- Focus on professional development and support team collaboration under the Site Leads guidance.
- Share technical knowledge with peers to support project delivery.
- Mentor less experienced team members.
- Participate in Project Farma internal qualification training program.
- Support the execution of site strategy under the direction of the Site Lead, contributing to specific project tasks that align with Project Farma’s services.
- Perform assigned tasks to meet strategic objectives, such as preparing and executing CQV Protocols
- Identify and reports client needs or project challenges to the Site Lead for further action.
- Maintain professional relationships with project team members and client POCs at the operational level (e.g., technicians, engineers) to facilitate task completion
- Contribute to project-level success by delivering high-quality work that supports business growth opportunities.
- Build meaningful internal and external relationships.
- Present Project Farma as a service to clients as needed.
- Communicate with clients in a professional manner.
- Ensure any client feedback or opportunities identified are being escalated properly.
- Provides data or insights (e.g., project progress, risks) to the Site Lead for inclusion in dashboards or expansion discussions.
- Participate in project tasks that support extensions or proposals, such as preparing deliverables for clients.
- Maintain 100% individual billability by completing assigned project tasks.
- Escalate any roadblocks on achieving billable targets to the site lead.
Benefits
- full-time salaried position
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
