Project Controls Engineer
Position Summary:
The Project Controls Engineer will work collaboratively with clients, vendors, contractors, and =to support projects. The Project Controls Engineer is responsible for delivering high quality work, forming and maintaining valuable, long-term relationships with our clients, and continually strengthening their technical and industry knowledge.
Essential functions of the job include but are not limited to:
Project Performance and Delivery
- Create alignment with cross-functional client departments including but not limited to Design, Construction, Validation, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, and Engineering.
- Communicate updates internally in a timely manner and relay in-field project decisions to highlight long-range, down-stream project and team impacts.
- Perform due diligence on system and subject domains to generate high-quality project deliverables.
- Identify and close individual knowledge gaps with support from other team members, leads, or resources as needed.
- 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.
- Maintain internal site tools such as site dashboards, deliverable trackers, etc.
- Continually develop technical aptitude of Manufacturing Solution’s core services within the life science space including but not limited to:
- Capital Project Management, including Project Controls and Scheduling
- Facility Builds
- Tech Transfers
- Have a general understanding of Earned Value Analysis and PO management tool
- Produce key project controls deliverables including but not limited to:
- Budget estimates
- Detailed Project schedules and milestones
- Feasibility estimates, risks, forecasts and scenario analysis
- Project cost reports and trend analysis
- Comprehensive monthly project summary reports
- Analyze complex project data and then deliver clear, articulate and concise messages in a compelling manner to support decision making.
Client Management and Business Development:
- Build meaningful internal and external relationships.
- Solid Understanding of the Industry and our position within it.
- Continual networking within the industry.
- Communicate with clients in a professional manner.
- Ensure any client feedback or opportunities identified are being escalated properly.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree
- 3-5 years of scheduling and/or project controls experience
- Experience with Smartsheet's, Microsoft Projects, and/or Primavera highly preferred
- Willingness to travel up to 100%
- 100% onsite presence
- Great soft skills, excellent verbal and written communication
- Effective time management, prioritization, and follow through
- Value committed with a high level of integrity
- Dedicated work ethic
- Demonstrate strong personal attributes that include teamwork, professionalism, and the ability to see the “big picture”