Project Controls - Director - Project Farma

Key Responsibilities

• Provide expert analysis of complex project data and deliver clear, strategic insights that drive executive level decision-making.
• Independently develop and oversee high-quality project controls deliverables, including reports, dashboards, and management summaries.
• Integrate and validate inputs from Project Coordinators, field teams, and cross-functional stakeholders while maintaining full accountability for final project controls outputs.
• Communicate critical project information with clarity and urgency, ensuring field decisions are translated into long-range schedule, cost, and resource impacts.
• Offer hands-on technical support to clients navigating the engineering life cycle of advanced equipment and manufacturing systems.
• Lead the design and implementation of comprehensive project tools such as site level dashboards, integrated schedules, and deliverable tracking systems.
• Conduct rigorous due diligence and quality assurance reviews to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance of all project controls deliverables.
• Proactively identify risks, roadblocks, and performance gaps; escalate appropriately and apply advanced problem-solving skills to develop innovative solutions.
• Continuously expand subject-matter expertise across life sciences project controls, including: Capital project management (CAPEX) for new and existing facilities, Facility shutdowns and turnarounds, Technology transfers, Enterprise system integrations, Validation, Life Cycle (CQV, PV, CSV), Quality, Regulatory, and Compliance frameworks, GxP automated systems, Quality Control (construction & commercial), Operational readiness and startup.
• Lead the development, maintenance, and governance of integrated project schedules, including baseline establishment, progress updates, and forward-looking planning.
• Establish and refine methodologies for tracking installed quantities, productivity, and earned value to support accurate forecasting and performance measurement.
• Monitor cost performance, change impacts, and emerging trends in partnership with Project Managers to ensure financial alignment and predictability.
• Identify and challenge schedule and cost variances, assess risks and opportunities, and recommend actionable mitigation or recovery strategies.
• Review, challenge, and enhance weekly, monthly, and ad hoc project controls reports to ensure clarity, accuracy, and strategic value.
• Develop and maintain advanced dashboards and performance metrics aligned with project, program, and corporate reporting standards.
• Conduct deep-dive analytics on schedule, cost, and performance data to support proactive, data-driven decision-making.
• Design, implement, and maintain project controls systems, coding structures, and standardized procedures to ensure consistency across the project lifecycle.
• Safeguard the accuracy, integrity, and traceability of all project controls data across systems and reporting platforms.
• Provide expert guidance to project teams on controls processes, data governance, and reporting requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance project controls workflows, reporting efficiency, and system utilization.
• Serve as a senior Subject Matter Expert, providing technical leadership, mentorship, and performance feedback to project controls personnel.
• Direct and coordinate project controls activities, defining required inputs, formats, and timelines to ensure alignment and quality.
• Review and validate Project Coordinator inputs—including quantities, progress updates, and documentation—prior to integration into project controls systems.
• Ensure accurate representation of field execution within project controls outputs through close collaboration with construction, engineering, and operations teams.
• Lead initiatives and project teams by establishing clear goals, managing priorities, and ensuring timely, high-quality deliverables.
• Provide administrative leadership and oversight of the Project Controls team, including coaching, mentoring, performance management, career development, and completion of annual performance reviews.
• Maintain billable utilization by actively contributing to client projects while balancing team leadership responsibilities and ensuring successful project delivery.
• Develop and execute strategies to strengthen and expand project controls service offerings, including planning, scheduling, estimating, risk management, and reporting.
• Represent the organization at industry events to promote capabilities and build market presence.
• Lead or contribute to thought leadership initiatives that advance project controls best practices.
• Build strong relationships with client leadership to identify opportunities for service expansion and value creation.
• Lead or support proposal development, including scope definition, resource planning, and cost forecasting.
• Actively support recruiting and talent development efforts to grow and enhance the project controls team.

Experience Required

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree (and/or Masters) in technical Sciences, Engineering, Regulatory or related discipline OR a combination of equivalent experience project controls, general construction, cGMP facility start-up, project management and/or comparable military experience.
• Years of Experience: 13-20+ years required
• Advanced experience with Microsoft Excel; Microsoft Project, Oracle Primavera P6, and/or Smartsheet a plus.

Other Preferred

• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certified
• Cost Professional (CCP)
• PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP)