Turner & Townsend is seeking an ambitious Project Controls Manager to join our growing Life Sciences team. The ideal candidate is a driven construction professional with experience supporting project controls, cost management, and scheduling on large-scale capital projects and programs. Experience delivering highly regulated facilities such as pharmaceutical manufacturing plants, biotechnology facilities, laboratories, R&D centers, cleanrooms, or other life sciences environments is preferred. The successful candidate will play a key role in providing project controls leadership, driving schedule performance, managing project reporting, and supporting the successful delivery of complex life sciences projects from planning through commissioning and closeout.
Responsibilities:
- Progress each project every month to ensure all projects are monitored for project controls in line with the monthly reporting cycle, checking accuracy and consistency of data.
- Report milestones of planned value and earned value data, % complete on projects and provide project commentaries.
- Attend project status meetings report on major material status; update forecast and schedule per progress discussion.
- Summarize project performance metrics and provide specialized direction and recommendations to project teams and management for the resolution of diverse project controls issues.
- Develop, monitor and update owners of Project Integrated Master Schedule (IMS).
- Interface with project stakeholders as a trusted advisor to provide guidance and recommendations for the project.
- Actively work with project managers and construction firms to maintain schedule integrity.
- Track and review change orders with project management and cost management team.
- Produce monthly reports for management.
- Contract Administration (retention, T&Cs, insurance, allowances, contingency, incentives).
- Prepare baseline schedules and schedule basis documents for approval by project teams.
- Conduct schedule for resource loading and leveling.
- Consolidate contractors schedule to incorporate into IMS.
- Assess impacts on the critical path and near-critical activities and report to the project team.
- Monitor schedule deviations and variances and assist in the development of alternative methods for corrective action.
- Review schedules with project team members on a regular basis to ensure that accurate and timely data is incorporated in the schedule.
- Facilitate interactive planning sessions and quantitative risk assessments when required.
- Maintain record of scope changes, trends and variances that potentially affect performance.
- Maintain liaison with clients and other consultants at all projects stages.
- Implement best practices and reporting trends both internally and externally.
- SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.