Project Controls Director - Project Farma

This is a full-time salaried position with Project Farma, a PerkinElmer 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. Project Farma (PF) team members collaborate with cross-functional teams to build trusted client relationships, deliver an exceptional customer experience, and contributeto 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.

The Project Controls - Director / Senior Director is a senior leader responsible for setting direction, driving execution, and delivering results across a function, portfolio, or business segment. This role provides strategic leadership, oversees multiple teams or initiatives, and partners cross-functionally to align people, processes, and priorities with company objectives. At more senior levels, this role is accountable for shaping strategy, leading leaders, and driving sustained business impact across a significant area of the organization, while influencing enterprise-level decisions, ensuring operational excellence, and developing leadership talent to balance short-term execution with long-term growth objectives.

Key Responsibilities

PROJECT CONTROLS EXECUTION

• Provide expert analysis of complex project data and deliver clear, strategic insights that drive executive level decision‑making.
• Independently develop and oversee high-quality project controls deliverables, including reports, dashboards, and management summaries.
• Integrate and validate inputs from Project Coordinators, field teams, and cross functional stakeholders while maintaining full accountability for final project controls outputs.
• Communicate critical project information with clarity and urgency, ensuring field decisions are translated into long-range schedule, cost, and resource impacts.
• Offer hands-on technical support to clients navigating the engineering life cycle of advanced equipment and manufacturing systems.
• Lead the design and implementation of comprehensive project tools such as site level dashboards, integrated schedules, and deliverable tracking systems.
• Conduct rigorous due diligence and quality assurance reviews to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance of all project controls deliverables.
• Proactively identify risks, roadblocks, and performance gaps; escalate appropriately and apply advanced problem-solving skills to develop innovative solutions.
• Continuously expand subject‑matter expertise across life sciences project controls, including:
• ·        Capital project management (CAPEX) for new and existing facilities
• ·        Facility shutdowns and turnarounds
• ·        Technology transfers
• ·        Enterprise system integrations
• ·        Validation Life Cycle (CQV, PV, CSV)
• ·        Quality, Regulatory, and Compliance frameworks
• ·        GxP automated systems
• ·        Quality Control (construction & commercial)
• ·        Operational readiness and startup

SCHEDULE, COST & PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

• Lead the development, maintenance, and governance of integrated project schedules, including baseline establishment, progress updates, and forward looking planning.
• Establish and refine methodologies for tracking installed quantities, productivity, and earned value to support accurate forecasting and performance measurement.
• Monitor cost performance, change impacts, and emerging trends in partnership with Project Managers to ensure financial alignment and predictability.
• Identify and challenge schedule and cost variances, assess risks and opportunities, and recommend actionable mitigation or recovery strategies.

REPORTING & ANALYTICS

• Review, challenge, and enhance weekly, monthly, and ad hoc project controls reports to ensure clarity, accuracy, and strategic value.
• Develop and maintain advanced dashboards and performance metrics aligned with project, program, and corporate reporting standards.
• Conduct deep‑dive analytics on schedule, cost, and performance data to support proactive, data‑driven decision-making.

SYSTEMS, STANDARDS & DATA INTEGRITY

• Design, implement, and maintain project controls systems, coding structures, and standardized procedures to ensure consistency across the project lifecycle.
• Safeguard the accuracy, integrity, and traceability of all project controls data across systems and reporting platforms.
• Provide expert guidance to project teams on controls processes, data governance, and reporting requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance project controls workflows, reporting efficiency, and system utilization.

STAKEHOLDER & TEAM LEADERSHIP

• Serve as a senior Subject Matter Expert, providing technical leadership, mentorship, and performance feedback to project controls personnel.
• Direct and coordinate project controls activities, defining required inputs, formats, and timelines to ensure alignment and quality.
• Review and validate Project Coordinator inputs—including quantities, progress updates, and documentation—prior to integration into project controls systems.
• Ensure accurate representation of field execution within project controls outputs through close collaboration with construction, engineering, and operations teams.
• Lead initiatives and project teams by establishing clear goals, managing priorities, and ensuring timely, high-quality deliverables.
• Provide administrative leadership and oversight of the Project Controls team, including coaching, mentoring, performance management, career development, and completion of annual performance reviews.
• Maintain billable utilization by actively contributing to client projects while balancing team leadership responsibilities and ensuring successful project delivery.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

• Develop and execute strategies to strengthen and expand project controls service offerings, including planning, scheduling, estimating, risk management, and reporting.
• Represent the organization at industry events to promote capabilities and build market presence.
• Lead or contribute to thought leadership initiatives that advance project controls best practices.
• Build strong relationships with client leadership to identify opportunities for service expansion and value creation.
• Lead or support proposal development, including scope definition, resource planning, and cost forecasting.
• Actively support recruiting and talent development efforts to grow and enhance the project controls team.

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 outcomes
• Growth Mindset: Shows openness to new ideas, feedback and change

Experience Required

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree (and/or Masters) in technical Sciences, Engineering, Regulatory or related discipline OR a combination of equivalent experience project controls, general construction, cGMP facility start-up, project management and/or comparable military experience.
• Years of Relevant Experience: 13-16 (Director) 16-20+ (Senior Director) years required
• Advanced experience with Microsoft Excel; Microsoft Project, Oracle Primavera P6, and/or Smartsheet.
• Willingness to travel as required for client project assignments.

Other Preferred

• Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Certified Cost Professional (CCP)
• PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP)

Project Farma is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, or veteran status or any other characteristics protected by applicable law. PerkinElmer is committed to a culturally diverse workforce.

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. This position may require significant travel to support project and business needs. We cannot employ anyone with an invalid driver's license.

The annual compensation range for this full-time position is $160,000 - 185,000. The final base pay offered to the successful candidate will be determined by factors including internal equity, work location, as well as individual qualifications, such as job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.