Project Controls Manager – Life Sciences

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.   • Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as different procurement routes, value management and value engineering.  • Advanced skills with spreadsheets, report writing and presentations.  • High proficiency in Microsoft Office and Google Suite of applications.  • Experience with cloud-based software.  • P6 scheduling knowledge preferred.  • Skilled in the use of industry accepted applications for cost, planning and progress measurement.  • Self-Motivated and proactive.  • Demonstrates a high level of self-organization, coordination and planning.  • Good organization skills, ability to multi-task, be a team player and integrate easily with others.  • Must have strong and professional English oral and written communication skills.  • Full passport with no geographical limitation.  *On-si