Project Manager Senior

Thousand Oaks, CA

Location: Onsite - Thousand Oaks, CA

Employment Type: Contingent Worker (Contract, W2)

Contract Length: 18 months (possible extension)

Compensation: $52/$59 per hour (based on experience)

Summary of the Role

Seeking a Senior Project Manager to provide centralized project management for deviations across a major Combination Product Organization.
This role will coordinate with cross-functional stakeholders - quality, engineering, manufacturing - to organize deviation activities and manage timelines. The Senior Project Manager will not serve as deviation owner or technical investigator, but will ensure teams progress deviations efficiently while meeting all quality system requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Deliver project management support from deviation initiation through investigation, action completion, and record closure
Assemble and manage complex project plans, assign teamwork, identify resources, and monitor daily progress
Perform quality review and escalate functional, quality, or timeline issues appropriately
Track key project milestones; adjust plans and resources to meet customer needs
Coordinate communication among all impacted enterprise areas including scope, budget, risk, and resource management
Maintain deviation trackers, project plans, timelines, dashboards, action logs, and reporting tools
Facilitate regular deviation review meetings, working sessions, and leadership updates
Monitor progress, aging items, due dates, overdue actions, extension needs, and escalate unresolved issues
Support prioritization based on compliance risk, product impact, and organizational commitments
Maintain organized records of meetings, decisions, action items, and supporting documentation

Required Experience & Skills

Demonstrated ability to coordinate multiple concurrent projects with competing priorities and deadlines
Experience supporting deviations, nonconformances, investigations, corrective and preventive actions, change controls, or other quality system records
Proficiency with electronic quality management systems, project management or data visualization tools
Strong cross-functional communication and stakeholder coordination skills
Organized, collaborative, and able to provide clear status reporting to leadership
Skilled in facilitating meetings and focused working sessions

Preferred Qualifications

Experience supporting root cause investigations

Top 3 Must Have Skills

1. Experience coordinating multiple concurrent projects with competing priorities, dependencies, and deadlines

2. Experience supporting deviations, nonconformances, investigations, corrective and preventive actions, change controls, or other quality system records

3. Experience using electronic quality management systems and project management or data visualization tools

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

Assemble and maintain complex project plans and teamwork assignments
Direct and monitor daily work efforts and identify resource needs
Track project milestones and adjust plans or resources as needed
Maintain and use deviation trackers, dashboards, and reporting tools
Coordinate activities, clarify deliverable ownership and due dates across functions
Facilitate deviation review meetings and leadership updates

Basic Qualifications

Doctorate degree and 3 years of experience
Masters degree and 5 years of experience
Bachelors degree and 7 years of experience
Associates degree and 12 years of experience
High school diploma / GED and 14 years of experience

This posting is for Contingent Worker, not an FTE