Project Controls Lead

Role Summary

Project Controls Lead responsible for overseeing the delivery of project controls including cost, schedule, and risk management within the R&D Engineering Services portfolio. Acts as a strategic partner to project teams, implementing best practices and enabling data-driven decision-making for a capital portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Drive excellence in cost estimation, budgeting, scheduling, and risk mitigation across projects.
• Coach and train service partner staff to ensure compliance with the Project Management Framework.
• Maintain and leverage benchmarking data to validate project cost estimates and schedules.
• Endorse procurement and contracting strategies while ensuring effective lifecycle contract administration.
• Own annual spend forecasts and end-of-year close-out activities, including capital accruals.
• Conduct Independent Project Reviews to ensure project assurance and health checks.
• Verify risk and contingency allocations for project budgets and schedules.
• Monitor critical milestones, risks, and KPIs to enable timely interventions and ensure project delivery success.
• Implement a formalized scope change approval process with clear accountability.
• Maintain site project performance dashboards to identify trends and drive efficiencies.

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years experience in project controls, project planning, scheduling, cost estimation, budgeting, and/or risk management tools.
• Required: Experience with data analysis and financial forecasting, and project controls systems.
• Required: Experience with stakeholder management.
• Preferred: Master’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business, or Project Management.
• Preferred: Experience in pharmaceutical industry.
• Preferred: Strategic thinking to align project goals with organizational objectives; exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills; passion for continuous improvement; ability to build cross-functional relationships.

Skills

• Project controls systems
• Cost estimation and budgeting
• Scheduling and risk management
• Data analysis and forecasting
• Stakeholder management
• Leadership and communication

Education

• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred

Additional Requirements

• This role is hybrid, requiring in-office presence a minimum of 3 days per week.