Managers, CAPEX Project Controls & Scheduling - Project Farma

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Job TitleManagers, CAPEX Project Controls & Scheduling - Project Farma
Location(s)Customer Site - AL, Huntsville, AL
Job Description
Project Farma is growing our Project Controls & Scheduling team, and will consider candidates' ranging from 7-15 years' relevant experience.
The successful candidate will reside within 50 miles of Huntsville, Alabama 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 Senior Manager, 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
PROJECT CONTROLS EXECUTION
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, Regulatory, and Compliance
GxP Automated Systems
Quality Control, including commercial and construction
Operational readiness
SCHEDULE, COST & PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
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 values 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
REPORTING & ANALYTICS
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.
SYSTEM, STANDARDS & DATA INTEGRITY
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 efficiency.
STAKEHOLDER & TEAM LEADERSHIP
Create alignment with cross-functional client departments including but not limited to Design, Construction, Validation, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, and Engineering groups.
Direct and coordinate project controls support activities, defining required inputs, formats, and timelines
Review and validate inputs provided by Project Coordinators, including quantities, progress updates, and documentation, prior to incorporation into project controls systems
Direct and coordinate project controls activities, defining inputs, formats, and timelines.
Provide ongoing guidance and feedback to Project Coordinators to ensure data accuracy and consistency
Coordinate closely with other teams to ensure field execution is accurately reflected in project controls
Lead initiatives and projects by ensuring Team Members understand team and individual goals and responsibilities, managing priorities, and ensuring timely and high-quality completion of work.
Act as a Subject Matter Expert providing technical direction, training, mentorship, career development, and performance assessments for project Team Members.
Develop strategies for the success of the service line or market target such as planning, scheduling, estimating, monitoring, progress measurement, risk management, training, and reporting procedures.
Manage new and existing client accounts, focus on project delivery, actively seeking to maintain and grow accounts in line with organizational growth targets.
Attributes for Success
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 outcom

Skills
Project Management, Risk Management, Quality Control, Due Diligence, Documentation