Project Controls Director - Project Farma

The Project Controls - Director / Senior Director is a senior leader responsible for setting direction, driving execution, and delivering results across a function, portfolio, or business segment. This role provides strategic leadership, oversees multiple teams or initiatives, and partners cross-functionally to align people, processes, and priorities with company objectives.

Key Responsibilities

Project Controls Execution

• Provide expert analysis of complex project data and deliver clear, strategic insights that drive executive level decision-making.
• Independently develop and oversee high-quality project controls deliverables, including reports, dashboards, and management summaries.
• Integrate and validate inputs from Project Coordinators, field teams, and cross functional stakeholders while maintaining full accountability for final project controls outputs.
• Communicate critical project information with clarity and urgency, ensuring field decisions are translated into long-range schedule, cost, and resource impacts.
• Offer hands-on technical support to clients navigating the engineering life cycle of advanced equipment and manufacturing systems.
• Lead the design and implementation of comprehensive project tools such as site level dashboards, integrated schedules, and deliverable tracking systems.
• Conduct rigorous due diligence and quality assurance reviews to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance of all project controls deliverables.
• Proactively identify risks, roadblocks, and performance gaps; escalate appropriately and apply advanced problem-solving skills to develop innovative solutions.

Schedule, Cost & Performance Management

• Lead the development, maintenance, and governance of integrated project schedules, including baseline establishment, progress updates, and forward looking planning.
• Establish and refine methodologies for tracking installed quantities, productivity, and earned value to support accurate forecasting and performance measurement.
• Monitor cost performance, change impacts, and emerging trends in partnership with Project Managers to ensure financial alignment and predictability.
• Identify and challenge schedule and cost variances, assess risks and opportunities, and recommend actionable mitigation or recovery strategies.

Reporting & Analytics

• Review, challenge, and enhance weekly, monthly, and ad hoc project controls reports to ensure clarity, accuracy, and strategic value.
• Develop and maintain advanced dashboards and performance metrics aligned with project, program, and corporate reporting standards.
• Conduct deep-dive analytics on schedule, cost, and performance data to support proactive, data-driven decision-making.

Systems, Standards & Data Integrity

• Design, implement, and maintain project controls systems, coding structures, and standardized procedures to ensure consistency across the project lifecycle.
• Safeguard the accuracy, integrity, and traceability of all project controls data across systems and reporting platforms.
• Provide expert guidance to project teams on controls processes, data governance, and reporting requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance project controls workflows, reporting efficiency, and system utilization.

Stakeholder & Team Leadership

• Serve as a senior Subject Matter Expert, providing technical leadership, mentorship, and performance feedback to project controls personnel.
• Direct and coordinate project controls activities, defining required inputs, formats, and timelines to ensure alignment and quality.
• Review and validate Project Coordinator inputs—including quantities, progress updates, and documentation—prior to integration into project controls systems.
• Ensure accurate representation of field execution within project controls outputs through close collaboration with construction, engineering, and operations teams.
• Lead initiatives and project teams by establishing clear goals, managing priorities, and ensuring timely, high-quality deliverables.
• Provide administrative leadership and oversight of the Project Controls team, including coaching, mentoring, performance management, career development, and completion of annual performance reviews.
• Maintain billable utilization by actively contributing to client projects while balancing team leadership responsibilities and ensuring successful project delivery.

Business Development

• Develop and execute strategies to strengthen and expand project controls service offerings, including planning, scheduling, estimating, risk management, and reporting.
• Represent the organization at industry events to promote capabilities and build market presence.
• Lead or contribute to thought leadership initiatives that advance project controls best practices.
• Build strong relationships with client leadership to identify opportunities for service expansion and value creation.
• Lead or support proposal development, including scope definition, resource planning, and cost forecasting.
• Actively support recruiting and talent development efforts to grow and enhance the project controls team.