Senior Project Controls Manager - Pharma

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the interpretation of the proposal or project contract.
• Develop and execute the strategy and plan for project control activities that support the overall proposal strategy or project requirements.
• Identify risk areas and recommend mitigation plans.
• Establish and effectively leverage cross-discipline relationships within the business unit to facilitate project controls.
• Provide leadership in interpreting, integrating, and communicating emerging business/industry trends and the implications of these trends for cost control, planning/scheduling, and estimating.
• Provide project control leadership on strategic initiatives within a business unit and project controls leadership on cross-business unit initiatives.
• Create, implement, and execute proper controls to proactively support, monitor, and communicate budget, actual status, and forecast costs, labor hours and quantities for business unit and cross-business unit projects.
• Develop, publish, and promote the use of procedures.
• Establish and maintain a work process that identifies and quantifies project cost trends.
• Take direct action to either include trends in the forecast or develop a mitigation program with the project or management team.
• Provide consistency between cost control, and scheduling.
• Supervise the development and issuance of timely cost control reports.
• Prepare and issue cost control analysis narratives including recommendations for corrective actions that are used by business unit management and project teams to manage the work.
• Define and advise the project team to take specific actions to effectively manage cash flow.
• Supervise the development, approval, and issuance of client and internal status reports that effectively communicate cost status and trends.
• Motivate the project team to define corrective actions for implementation.
• Establish and effectively leverage cross-discipline relationships within the business unit to facilitate project controls.
• Create and maintain a project program that identifies and quantifies project labor hour forecasts.
• Prepare and issue schedule analysis narratives including recommendations for corrective actions that are used by business unit management and project teams to manage the work.
• Work with contract administration to ensure projects comply with federal requirements and audits regarding TIA's and REA development and negotiations.
• Responsible for the career development and coaching of team members.
• Foster a positive and inclusive work environment to motivate and engage team members.
• Interpret and translate the organizational strategy, ensuring team understanding of their role in accomplishing strategic goals.
• Collaborate closely with business development to ensure seamless integration with sales strategies including performance metrics on your assigned projects, pursuits, and client deliverables.
• Actively participate in opportunities to strengthen client, partner, and industry relationships that position Gilbane as the “Builder of Choice”.

Qualifications

• BS or AA in Accounting, Finance, Business, Engineering, Architecture or related field
• 15-20 years of progressive experience with increasing responsibility
• Life sciences construction experience preferred but not required
• Or equivalent combination of education and experience

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Develop, implement and train on standard and project specific cost control procedures in accordance with the Division and/or Business Unit procedures.
• Identify and communicate key cost issues to project/construction and operations management in a timely manner to allow corrective action to be implemented.
• Tutor and guide project controls staff in project controls fundamentals, procedures and guidelines.
• Deploy and modify project control systems as appropriate to support project specific execution requirements.
• Implement / effectively use / train on company-standard and industry- standard project controls tools and systems to include Primavera Products, MS Project, Deltek Acumen Fuse, etc.