Director, Project Controls & Assurance

Role Summary

Director, Project Controls & Assurance. Location: Horsham, Pennsylvania or New Brunswick, New Jersey. Full-time on-site support.

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance on Front End Loading / early estimating supporting the Capital investment by obtaining agreement on project definitions, scope, and priorities, and ensures that resources, capabilities, and processes are in place.
• Supports the implementation of the IDEA Project Delivery Process, ensuring focus on cost and schedule objectives, identify and mitigate risk and are adhering to key financial procedures.
• Work with team to develop & align Capital Appropriation Request(s) estimates, cost accounting and detailed schedule to ensure seamless integration of project approval.
• Ensure key tools and processes are in place to track project deliverables. Monitor and report on progress of the project to all stakeholders and provides status reports defining project progress, problems and solutions. Ensure proper change control processes are in place and efficient.
• Ensures that projects are implementing key Risk processes at all stages of the IDEA project delivery process (Cost & Schedule Risks assessments)
• Attend meetings during the engineering and construction phases.
• Evaluate the AE, Construction Management (CM) and C&Q firm‚Äôs performance with respect to cost control and change management.
• Support project management in evaluating cost and analyzing change orders and forecasts.
• Review construction estimate trend reports prior to establishment of GMA contract with contractor.
• Assist with development and review of project estimates. Review will include analysis of scope definition, inclusions and exclusions, unit rates, subcontractor costs, fees and markups, and indirect costs including general conditions.
• Evaluate subcontract procurement plan, track performance against target dates.
• Review costs and schedules for subcontracts prior to award, validate against project budget.
• Evaluate project contingency budgets and monitor usage throughout the duration of the project.
• Review payment applications to validate progress claimed and ensure compliance with commercial/contract terms.
• Maintain and update 21-Tab / ESR that accurately: Reflect status against the funding authorization and target schedule, Identifies key accomplishments, critical issues and potential areas of concern, Tracks project cashflow against plan, Tracks project safety statistics.
• Manage the overall schedule development and integration, including engineering and design deliverables, procurement tasks, and construction management tasks, integrated with IT-automation tasks, commissioning and qualification, operational readiness, and process validation and technology transfer. This role will include hands-on schedule development, including updating, review, analysis and reporting to management, team leadership and team members.
• Ensure proper schedule integration and focus on identification of critical and near-critical paths so that the project team can begin to consider possible mitigation plans in case of schedule delay. Provide thorough review of the overall timeline and logic networks for all workstreams to ensure a true overall baseline.
• Support Teams to develop Programmatic / Project Specific Procurement Strategies.
• Identify areas of opportunities and risks and recommending courses of action which enable the project team to optimize its schedule performance and provide the owner with accurate and timely information.

Qualifications

• Education: Minimum of a Bachelor's or equivalent University Degree required; focused degree preferred in Business, Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or equivalent field.
• Experience and Skills: Minimum 10 years of relevant work experience; Project Controls experience leading complex capital projects > $500MM in Supply Chain, R&D, Medical Device, and/or equivalent regulated industry; Proven Project Management experience, including obtaining agreement on project definitions and priorities, and ensuring that key resources, capabilities, and processes are in place; Extensive knowledge of engineering, construction, and projects controls execution; Experience in estimating, cost and schedule development/integration, and risk control processes; Experience and knowledge of translating complex business needs into clear Final Project Objectives; Strong communication and listening skills; Strong people leadership experience with demonstrated competency interacting with multiple levels of the organization including senior leaders.
• Preferred: Familiarity with J&J Project Management approaches; PMP or equivalent certification; Primavera P6 and/or MS Project scheduling experience; Monte Carlo risk analysis; Web-based project management systems; FDA regulated industry experience.
• Other: Requires up to 50% domestic and/or international travel.