Project Controls Managers & Directors - Project Farma

Project Controls Managers & Directors – Project Farma

Customer Site – NC, Greenville, NC, Huntsville, AL, Raleigh, NC

Project Farma is growing our Project Controls practice, and will consider candidates ranging from 5-15 years’ relevant experience. The successful candidate will reside within 50 miles of Raleigh, NC 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.

As a Project Controls Manager or Director, you will work collaboratively with clients, vendors, contractors, and other Project Farma Team Members to lead projects related to biomanufacturing across the entire engineering lifecycle. You will apply your advanced technical skills to meet project team and client needs for all project controls deliverables. You will be responsible for delivering high quality work, forming and maintaining valuable, long‑term relationships with our clients, and continually strengthening your technical and industry knowledge.

Additionally, you will lead a team of project engineers in both performance and deliverable including but not limited to:

• 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. Independently prepare project controls reports, dashboards, and management summaries, and performance metrics. Utilize and integrate inputs from Project Coordinators, field teams, vendors, and cross‑functional stakeholders while maintaining accountability for final project controls outputs. Communicate project status, schedule impacts, and field decisions promptly while highlighting downstream impacts to scope, cost, schedule, and resources.

Provide hands‑on support and troubleshooting for clients navigating the engineering life cycle of cutting‑edge equipment and manufacturing processes. Develop 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 escalate roadblocks and utilize critical thinking skills and knowledge of problem‑solving skills to identify creative solutions to those problems and roadblocks.

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 Validation, Computer System Validation, etc. Quality,…