Senior Project Controls Engineer | Life Sciences Projects

PerkinElmer; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 76,000 - 111,000; Full time

Job summary

PerkinElmer is seeking a Project Controls - Engineer III/Lead Engineer to support Project Farma initiatives across multiple U.S. sites. The role requires strong technical discipline, extensive scheduling and cost analysis, and travel to client sites nationwide as needed.

You will work with cross-functional teams to produce high-quality project controls outputs, dashboards, and management summaries while advancing standards and best practices within the life sciences domain.

Qualifications

• Advanced experience with Microsoft Excel and project controls tools.
• Strong scheduling, cost, and performance analytics capabilities.
• Ability to develop and communicate clear project controls messages.

Responsibilities

• Summary project plans and milestone management reports.
• Detailed project execution schedules.
• Activity tracking and variance reports.
• Budget estimates, project cost reports and forecast trend analysis reports.
• Issue, risks and scenario analysis reports.
• Scope and change management impact analysis reports.
• Comprehensive monthly project status reports.
• Prepare and issue weekly, monthly, and ad-hoc project controls reports.
• Develop dashboards and performance metrics.

Skills

Excel advanced

Scheduling analytics

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in technical sciences/engineering

Tools

MS Project

Primavera P6

Smartsheet

Excel

Job description

PerkinElmer is seeking a Project Controls - Engineer III/Lead Engineer to support Project Farma initiatives across multiple U.S. sites. The role requires strong technical discipline, extensive scheduling and cost analysis, and travel to client sites nationwide as needed.

You will work with cross-functional teams to produce high-quality project controls outputs, dashboards, and management summaries while advancing standards and best practices within the life sciences domain.