Project Controls Assoc Director

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Job Description

Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do.

Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– we reach millions of patients each year. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.

Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Associate Director, Project Controls

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this role the Associate Director of Project Controls will be accountable for leading, managing, forecasting, and tracking costs, schedules, estimates, compliance, and risks on a portfolio of capital projects at Amgen’s manufacturing site located in North Carolina.

This position partners with all internal multi-functional groups that supports capital projects, including Engineering Technical Authority, Project Management, Facilities Management, Global Site Engineering, Capital Finance, and various Amgen internal business partners.

The candidate should have the experience and ability to lead, develop, train, and manage a project controls team of cost managers, estimators, and schedulers through partnership with our outside service providers.

Role Location:

The Project Controls Associate Director required to work local at Amgen’s manufacturing site in Holly Springs, North Carolina.

Key Responsibility:

The Project Controls Associate Director will be responsible to lead project controls for region portfolio of capital projects.

• Lead multiple direct reports and multi-functional teams of project controls staff.
• Overall responsibility for managing project controls for the North Carolina executing key capital projects within project schedule and budget a greater than $1B at a portfolio level.
• Exhibits proactive safety leadership and behavior.
• Delivers presentations of project controls performance for the Region
• Oversees the Region’s project controls effectiveness and compliance applying strong analytical views to lead the project teams to ensure proper evaluation and analysis.
• Provides leadership support for risk analysis reviews for cost estimates, cost forecasts, and schedules using applicable software packages.
• Managing project controls from funding through close out, including compliance to processes and policies.
• Assisting Project Controls Director in developing project strategies and associated financing
• Working closely with the Front-End Planning team to develop conceptual estimates and schedules.
• Developing strategies and negotiating pricing for subcontractor scopes of work, reviewing, and analyzing engineer/contractor bids with GSS
• Monitoring and evaluating engineering and contractors’ physical progress.
• Addressing progress and delay claims from contractors
• Analysis and accurate review of engineering / construction cost forecasts against scope
• Reviewing and approving engineer and contractor buy outs, change orders and invoices.
• Preparing monthly cost reports and project status reports for senior management both on site and corporately.
• Lead the development, monitoring and reporting of project schedules and cash flow to enable accurate capital LE predication for their portfolio.
• Leading risk analysis reviews for cost estimates, forecasts and schedules using applicable software packages.
• Working with Amgen Buying Centre and Accounts Payable to resolve invoice payment issues and queries.
• Leading all aspects of the closeout of contracts, purchase orders and subsequent projects within their portfolio.
• Monitoring and managing Capitalized Overhead across all projects and sites including planning, hiring, and charging processes.
• Exhibiting proactive safety leadership and behavior
• Communicating on and escalating on project matters and/or project controls performance for their portfolio to Site Sponsors and Engineering leadership
• Overseeing their portfolio’s project controls effectiveness and compliance using strong analytical views to lead the project teams to ensure proper e