Senior Automation Engineer; cGMP - Project Farma

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.

• Market locations include but are not limited to:
  Boston, Philadelphia, DMV, Northern New Jersey, Chicago, Indianapolis, Columbus, St Louis, Kansas City, Raleigh‑Durham, Houston, Dallas, Boulder, Portland, San Francisco, San Diego, and Los Angeles.

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.

This role contributes to organizational success by supporting financial performance, operational efficiency, and continuous improvement, while also investing in people through mentorship, knowledge sharing, and professional development.

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.

• Provides technical guidance for assigned project team members
• Creates an approachable, inclusive team environment
• Encourages active participation in project team discussions
• Engages with leadership to provide continuous improvements suggestions to the DT&A and overall PF Strategy

• Lead medium sized projects or scope of work for large projects
• Builds a strong collaborative relationship with clients
• Supports scope definition, change management, and client communications.
• Builds a strong relationship with other 3rd party vendors or system integrators
• Identifies opportunities to expand work for PF

• Continues to broaden knowledge of the overall Digital Transformation and Automation pillars
• Develop project execution and Configuration Strategy
• Build knowledge of estimating automation projects (Schedule, Hours, Tasks, etc)
• Resolves moderately complex operational and people‑related challenges.

• Provide mentoring and coaching for the engineers working on your project
• Monitor emerging technologies and evaluate the potential strategic impact to our business.
• Encourages teams to explore new methods, tools, and industry developments.

• Identifies execution risks and takes corrective action proactively.
• Ensure compliance with global regulatory standards (GMP, FDA, ISO, EHS).
• Champion a culture of safety, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Reviews deliverables for quality and compliance before client submission.
• Addresses quality issues through coaching and process improvement

• Balances schedule, quality, and client priorities in decision‑making.
• Manages team utilization and workload forecasting to meet billability goals.
• Escalates high‑risk decisions appropriately.
• Ensure quality assurance, risk management and compliance across all aspects of DT&A

• 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 consistent professionalism, appropriate escalation and respect for internal stakeholders, even during high stress delivery situations
• Integrity & Humility:
  Demonstrates self‑awareness and puts PF mission above ego
• Collaboration & Communication:
  Communicates clearly and proactively and drives transparent alignment with clients.
• Project Execution:
  Delivers reliably, manages priorities and drives for high quality outcomes
• Growth Mindset:
  Shows openness to new ideas, feedback and change

• Education:
  
  Bachelor’s Degree (and/or…