Project Controls - Lead Engineer

Summary

PerkinElmer’s Project Farma helps accelerate the delivery of life-changing therapies through life sciences project execution. The Project Controls - Lead Engineer will support and lead project controls deliverables for biomanufacturing projects, including schedules, budgets, forecasts, risk analysis, reporting, and project data analysis. The role collaborates with clients and cross-functional teams throughout the engineering lifecycle and provides troubleshooting and project execution support.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Create alignment with cross-functional client departments including but not limited to Design, Construction, Validation, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, and Engineering groups
• Communicate project information internally in a timely manner and relay in-field project decisions to highlight long-range, down-stream project and team impacts
• Provide hands-on support and troubleshooting for clients navigating the engineering life cycle of cutting-edge equipment and manufacturing processes
• Maintain 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
• Support necessary billables as forecasted by site dashboards on billable targets per month
• 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

Skills

• Bachelor's Degree in Life Science, Engineering, or related discipline
• A combination of equivalent work experience in capital project engineering, project management or construction, pharma cGMP facility start-up, CapEx/OpEx project management and/or comparable military experience
• 0-3 years required
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis
• We will not sponsor applicants for current or future work visas for this position
• We cannot employ anyone with an invalid driver's license
• Pharma and/or general construction industry experience

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Bachelor's Degree in Life Science, Engineering, or related discipline
• a combination of equivalent work experience in capital project engineering, project management or construction, pharma cGMP facility start-up, CapEx/OpEx project management and/or comparable military experience
• 0-3 years required
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis
• We will not sponsor applicants for current or future work visas for this position
• We cannot employ anyone with an invalid driver's license

Nice to Haves

• Pharma and/or general construction industry experience