Sr Manager Project Controls

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When you're part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll do important work, like helping customers in finding cures for cancer, protecting the environment or making sure our food is safe. Your work will have real-world impact, and you'll be supported in achieving your career goals!

Location/Division Specific Information

Greenville, NC / Pharmaceutical Services Group

How will you make an impact?

The Sr Manager Project Controls will work to lead a team of both internal and external resources to provide daily support and execution of project controls functions for all the CAPEX projects being executed on the site. You will supervise and grow the Project Controls team and be responsible for cost, schedule, change control monitoring, analysis, forecasting, and reporting. You and your team will manage overall project cost, schedule, and change controls by supporting project management activities.

What you will do:

• Develop and supervise a Project Controls team for the CAPEX Project Engineering group

• Finance

  • Prepare management reports on the results of the monthly and quarterly CAPEX Project status

  • Initiate communication and coordinate with other departments to improve the quality of financial information

  • Maintain accurate and consistent reporting formats and data

  • Maintain written procedures relevant to major and minor financial activities

  • Reconcile monthly statements with vendors and internal costs centers

  • Support and perform internal financial audits for CAPEX projects

• Cost Controls

  • Develop baseline budgets from project cost estimates

  • Develop Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and apply to project budgets

  • Develop and provide cost reporting per project reporting schedules

  • Implement earned value systems to determine Estimate at Completion (EAC) and cost efficiency (CPI)

  • Support development of Rules of Credit for earned value tracking

  • Develop contingency tracking reports and manage contingency drawdown logs

• Schedule Controls

  • Develop baseline integrated project schedules for EPCMV projects

  • Resource load project schedules to assist with project staffing and construction labor requirements

  • Work with a multi-disciplined team, including Engineering, Construction, Validation, Technology Transfer, and Operational Readiness, to build schedules and track progress

  • Implement earned value systems to determine schedule efficiency (SPI)

• Change Management

  • Develop and maintain change management systems

  • Maintain project change/decision logs

  • Support the issuance and/or receipt of change orders as necessary throughout the life of a project

  • Provide linkage between project change and contingency management

• Risk Management

  • Support the risk management process by helping to identify and quantify cost, schedule, and scope risk

  • Support project risk assessments and Monte Carlo risk simulations

• Perform other duties as assigned such as purchase requisitions, invoicing, etc.

• It is the responsibility of each employee to work in a safe and responsible manner to create an injury-free and incident-free workplace

How you will get here:

Education, Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Business Administration, Engineering, or Construction Management along with 7+ years of relevant experience.

• Finance and Project Controls experience on EPCM Projects required (EPCMV Pharma Projects preferred)

• Financial forecasting and cash flow analysis experience required

• Experience building and maintaining Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project resource loaded schedules

• Experience with Earned Value Management and Rules of Credit

• Experience with project cost estimating preferred

• Demonstrated experience in Windows based software, especially spreadsheet or database programs

• Demonstrated experience with enterprise software systems (SAP R/3) preferred

• Experience in an industrial manufacturing environment preferred

• Experience with developing and managing a team preferred

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Advanced experience in Windows based software, especially spreadsheet or database programs

• Advanced experience with enterprise software systems (SAP R/3) preferred

• Advanced experience with Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project

• Experience with project cost estimating preferred

• Ability to self-audit to mitigate mistakes

• Strong organizational ability

• Effective at developing and managing a team

• Effective corporate communication skills

• Ability to consistently meet all deadlines

• Self-starter, mature, independent and dependable

• Ability to work in fast paced results orientated environment

• Effective time management, multitasking and prioritization skills

• Excellent interpersonal skills to establish and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external suppliers

• Highly effective verbal and written communication skills - English Language

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. As one global team of 100,000+ colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need.

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