Validation Engineer III - Project Farma

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Validation Engineer III - Project Farma

Customer Site - KS

This is a full‑time salaried position with Project Farma, a Perkin Elmer 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. 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 planning, cost, schedule, and performance management.

All team members embody Project Farma’s values of curiosity, personable, and unselfish, while maintaining a strong commitment to a patient‑focused and people‑first mindset.

• 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 (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 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, downstream impacts.
• Provide hands‑on support and troubleshooting for clients navigating engineering life cycles of cutting‑edge equipment and manufacturing processes.
• Perform due diligence on system and subject domains to generate high‑quality deliverables.
• Proactively identify and escape roadblocks, utilizing critical thinking skills to develop creative solutions.
• Understand Earned Value Analysis (EVA) and project management tools.
• Assist with project controls and scheduling, including budget estimates, detailed schedules and milestones, feasibility estimates, risks, forecasts, and project cost reports.
• Focus on professional development and support team collaboration under Site Lead guidance.
• Share technical knowledge with peers and mentor less experienced team members.
• Participate in Project Farma internal qualification training program.
• Support execution of site strategy under the direction of the Site Lead.
• Perform assigned tasks to meet strategic objectives, such as preparing and executing CQV protocols.
• Identify and report client needs or project challenges to the Site Lead.
• Maintain professional relationships with project team members and client POCs at the operational level 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 escalated properly.
• Provide 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.

• Technical Delivery:
  Applies advanced technical knowledge and professional expertise.
• Innovation & Continuous Improvement:
  Seeks better ways, adapts to change, and champions new ideas.
• Customer Focus & Professionalism:
  Represents PF with consistency,…