Controls Manager - Project Farma

This is a full-time salaried position with Project Farma,a PerkinElmer 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.

Project Farma’s purpose is to improve patient lives by acceleratingthe delivery of life-changingtherapies. 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.

The Manager is responsible for leading teams and overseeing the execution of work aligned to project, client, and business objectives. This role balances people leadership with operational accountability, including coaching, performance management, resource planning, and ensuring high-quality delivery within defined scope, timelines, and budget. At more senior levels, this role provides experienced leadership and operational oversight across multiple projects or functional areas, with accountability for team performance, talent development, and consistent execution of business priorities, while partnering with senior leaders to drive continuous improvement, scalability, and organizational effectiveness.

Key Responsibilities:

As a Project Controls 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

• Utilize inputs from Project Coordinators, field teams, and other disciplines while retaining accountability for final project controls outputs

• 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.

• 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, incl…