Responsibilities

The Senior Project Engineer is a fully billable role that will work collaboratively with clients, vendors, contractors, and other Team Members to support projects related to biomanufacturing across the entire engineering lifecycle.  The Senior Project Engineer is responsible for delivering high quality work, forming and maintaining valuable, long-term relationships with our clients, and continually strengthening their technical and industry knowledge. They will maintain a strong focus on Project Farma’s Patient Focused and People First mindset.

All roles within Project Farma will lead with a Servant leadership mentality, exemplifying the Project Farma culture of philanthropy, teamwork, training and development and commitment to the patient as the foundation of our teams’ and partners’ long-term success

Essential Functions:

Site Strategy

• Support the execution of site strategy under the direction of the Site Lead, contributing to specific project tasks that align with Project Farma’s services.
• Perform assigned tasks to meet strategic objectives, such as preparing and executing CQV Protocols
• Identify and reports client needs or project challenges to the Site Lead for further action.
• Maintain professional relationships with project team members and client POCs at the operational level (e.g., technicians, engineers) to facilitate task completion.

Business Growth & Development

• Contribute to project-level success by delivering high-quality work that supports business growth opportunities.
• Provides data or insights (e.g., project progress, risks) to the Site Lead for inclusion in dashboards or expansion discussions.
• Participate in project tasks that support extensions or proposals, such as preparing deliverables for clients.
• Build meaningful internal and external relationships.
• Possess a solid understanding of the industry and our position within it.
• Present Project Farma as a service to clients as needed.
• Attend networking events within the industry.
• Communicate with clients in a professional manner.
• Ensure any client feedback or opportunities identified are being escalated properly.

Talent Development

• Focus on professional development and support team collaboration under the Site Leads guidance.
• Seek mentorship from leaders to improve technical and professional skills.
• Share technical knowledge with peers to support project delivery.
• Report personal career goals or retention concerns to the Site Lead

Resource Management

• Provide input on task-level resource needs to the Site Lead to support project delivery.
• Report workload or skill gaps within assigned tasks.
• Assist in maintaining project schedules by communicating resource constraints.

Technical Delivery

• Create alignment with cross-functional client departments including but not limited to Validation, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, Engineering and Project Controls

• Communicate updates internally in a timely manner and relay in-field project decisions to highlight long-range, down-stream project and team impacts.
• Provide hands-on support and troubleshooting for clients navigating the engineering life cycle of cutting-edge equipment and manufacturing processes.
• Perform due diligence on system and subject domains to generate high-quality project deliverables.
• Execute specific technical tasks within a project, ensuring high-quality deliverables.
• Perform CQV tasks, such as protocol development or equipment testing, under the Site Lead’s guidance.
• Report technical issues to the Site Lead and support resolution efforts.
• Ensure tasks meet client specifications, regulatory requirements (e.g., FDA, GMP), and industry standards.
• Author technical documents such as SOPs, requirements specifications, testing protocols, summary reports, etc.
• Identify and close individual knowledge gaps with support from other team members, leads, or resources as needed.
• Execute system and process validation protocols by using GxP best practices.

• Proactively identify and escalate roadblocks and utilize critical thinking skills and knowledge of problem-solving skills to identify creative solutions to those problems and roadblocks.
• Support necessary billables as forecasted by site dashboards on billable targets per month. 
• Maintain internal site tools such as site dashboards, deliverable trackers, etc.
• Continually develop technical aptitude of Project Farma’s core services within the life science space including but not limited to: Capital Project Management, Facility Builds, Tech Transfers, Validation Life Cycles including CQV and Computer system Validation, Quality, Regulatory and Compliance, GxP Automated Systems, and Quality Control including clinical and commercial.

• General understanding of Earned Value Analysis (EVA) and PO management tool
• Analyze complex project data and then deliver clear, articulate and concise messages in a compelling manner to support decision making.
• May be requested to assist with Project Controls and Scheduling to include; Budget estimates, detailed project schedules and milestones, feasibility estimates, risks, forecasts and scenario analysis and project cost reports and analysis.

Operational Performance & Billability

• Maintain 100% individual billability by completing assigned project tasks.
• Escalate any roadblocks on achieving billable targets to the site lead.

Leadership and Philanthropy

• Contribute to and embody our Patient Focused and People First mission through the involvement in professional development and philanthropic opportunities.
• Actively seek out opportunities to enhance Project Farma’s culture, support internal initiatives, and begin to develop servant leadership skills.
• Seeks opportunities to support the team and leadership.
• Actively request continuous feedback in order to develop and seek out opportunities for improvement.

Qualifications:

Education and Experience Required:

• 2-3 years’ experience in consulting and/or engineering services.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Life Science, Engineering, or related discipline (OR a combination of equivalent work experience in CQV engineering, cGMP facility start-up, project management and/or comparable military experience).

Other Required:

• Full-time on-site client presence
• Willingness to travel up to 100% or as required.

Key Competencies:

• Customer Focused: Identify, prioritize and escalate client needs and recognize constraints. Seeks to find out more about our clients, build meaningful relationships with clients, and provide excellent service towards the customer.
• Problem Solving: Identify key components of problems, generate and evaluate proposed solutions or mitigation plans, and choose the most appropriate option with minimal oversight.
• Teamwork and Collaboration: Active participant in team environment and works together towards a common vision and/or goal. Encourages and embraces cooperation and collaboration.
• Initiative: Completes deliverables or work unassisted. Takes responsibility for their own time and productivity. Actively seeks out new things to learn.
• Flexibility and Adaptability: Responds positively to change and adapt to new situations quickly. Able to take on a diverse range of tasks while remaining equally effective. Handles competing demands, overcomes setbacks, welcomes, and learns from constructive feedback.
• Integrity: Demonstrates commitment to corporate and personal values. Takes accountability for their actions, decisions, and work. Exhibit a high standard of ethics. Builds and maintains trust and good working relationships. Demonstrates honesty and truthfulness at all times. 
• Accountability: Demonstrates a high level of self-awareness. Holds self and others accountable for measurable high-quality, timely, and effective results.  Determines objectives, sets priorities, and delegates work through to the end.