Senior Project Controls Leader for Pharma & Life Sciences

Rent a Recruiter; Cork; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Rent a Recruiter is seeking a Lead Project Controls Manager to join a global engineering and project management team in Cork. You will lead planning, cost, scheduling and risk across major pharmaceutical capital projects and provide governance across the lifecycle from concept to handover.

You will mentor a project controls team and partner with engineering, procurement, construction, CQV and operations to deliver world-class facilities for a global client.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in project controls or programme controls.
• Experience delivering large-scale capital projects, ideally pharma/life sciences.
• Strong expertise across cost, planning, scheduling, risk and change.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Proven ability to lead teams and influence senior stakeholders.
• Proactive, commercially aware with confidence to challenge and drive performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning, scheduling, cost, forecasting, risk and change management.
• Establish and maintain robust project controls governance and processes.
• Develop programme-wide KPI dashboards, reporting and performance insights.
• Provide strategic advice to senior client and project leadership teams.
• Monitor budgets, commitments, forecasts and contingency.
• Assess cost, schedule and risk impacts of project changes.
• Review contractor and consultant performance against baselines.
• Drive consistency, standardisation and continuous improvement.
• Lead and mentor a high-performing project controls team.
• Work closely with engineering, procurement, construction, CQV and operations teams.

Skills

Project controls

Planning

Scheduling

Cost management

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

PM Certification (PMP/PgMP)

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Project

Excel

Job description

Rent a Recruiter is seeking a Lead Project Controls Manager to join a global engineering and project management team in Cork. You will lead planning, cost, scheduling and risk across major pharmaceutical capital projects and provide governance across the lifecycle from concept to handover.

You will mentor a project controls team and partner with engineering, procurement, construction, CQV and operations to deliver world-class facilities for a global client.