Project Controls & Scheduling Engineers & Leads - Project Farma

Project Controls & Scheduling Engineers & Leads - Project Farma

Concord, NC, Customer Site - NC, Greenville, NC, Huntsville, AL, Raleigh, NC

Project Farma is growing our Project Controls practice, and will consider candidates' ranging from 0-7+ years' relevant experience. The successful candidate will be willing to travel domestically to meet client project requests and will reside in one of Project Farma's Southeast markets:
Huntsville, AL;
Charlotte, NC;
Greenville, NC; or Raleigh, NC 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. 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 work streams, 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.

• Summary project plans and milestone management reports
• Detailed project execution schedules
• Activity tracking and variance reports
• Budget estimates, project cost reports and forecast trend analysis reports
• Issue, risks and scenario analysis reports
• Scope and change management impact analysis reports
• Comprehensive monthly project status reports
• Analysis of complex project data and then deliver clear, articulate and concise messages in a compelling manner to support decision making.
• Create alignment with cross-functional client departments including but not limited to Design, Construction, Validation, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, and Engineering groups.
• Communicate project information 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.
• Maintain project tools such as site dashboards, detailed schedules, deliverable trackers, etc.
• Perform due diligence and quality checks on subject domains to generate high-quality project deliverables.
• Proactively identify and escalation roadblocks and utilize critical thinking skills and knowledge of problem-solving skills to identify creative solutions to those problems and roadblocks.
• Support necessary billables as forecasted by site dashboards on billable targets per month.
• Continually develop a technical aptitude of project controls services within the life-science space including but not limited to:
  Capital project management (CAPEX) for new/existing facility builds Facility shutdowns/turnarounds Technology transfers Enterprise system integrations Validation Life Cycle, including Commissioning and Qualification, Process…