Project Controls Manager - Project Farma

This is a full‑time salaried position with Project Farma, a Perkin Elmer company. 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.

All team members are expected to embody Project Farma’s values: curious, personable, and unselfish, while maintaining a strong commitment to a Patient Focused and People First mindset.

• 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 deliver clear, articulate and concise messages 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 escalated roadblocks and utilize critical thinking skills to identify creative solutions.

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, Regulatory, and Compliance
• GxP Automated Systems
• Quality Control, including commercial and construction
• Operational readiness

• Lead and maintain integrated project schedules, including baseline management, updates, metrics establishment and look‑ahead planning.
• Directly develop, maintain and update project schedules, cost models, progress tracking tools, and performance reports.
• Perform detailed schedule logic updates, progress status, forecasting, variance analysis, and recovery planning.
• Track and challenge installed quantities, productivity, and earned value to support accurate cost and schedule forecasting.
• Monitor cost performance, change impacts, and forecast trends in coordination with the Project Manager.
• Identify schedule and cost variances, risks, and opportunities, and recommend mitigation or recovery actions.

• Prepare and issue weekly, monthly, and ad‑hoc internal and external project controls reports.
• Develop and maintain project dashboards and performance metrics aligned with project and corporate requirements.
• Conduct in‑depth analysis of schedule, cost, and performance data to support proactive decision‑making.
• Review, challenge, and enhance weekly, monthly, and ad‑hoc project controls reports.

• Design, implement and maintain approved project controls systems, coding structures, and procedures on the project.
• Ensure accuracy, consistency, and integrity of all project controls data across systems and reports.
• Provide guidance to project teams on project controls processes, data requirements, and reporting standards.
• Support continuous improvement of project‑level controls workflows and reporting…