Life Sciences Project Manager - 12-Month Contract

QCS Staffing Ltd; Ohio; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

QCS Staffing Ltd is seeking a Project Manager for a major US, Ohio life sciences build. This contract role focuses on driving governance with the General Contractor, ensuring safety and regulatory compliance, and delivering the project from design through handover.

You will lead scope, schedule, cost management, and change control while maintaining clear communication with the project team and stakeholders to keep milestones on track on a high-profile pharmaceutical capital program.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or related technical discipline.
• Extensive experience delivering large-scale pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or life sciences capital projects.
• Proven experience managing EPC or General Contractors on complex, highly regulated construction projects.
• End-to-end project delivery capability across design, construction, commissioning, and handover phases.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary day-to-day governance interface for the General Contractor on the Building CSA scope, maintaining regular face-to-face engagement, being accessible, responsive, decisive, and proactively determining disposition and escalation pathways for issues and queries to maintain project progress.
• Ensure the scope is delivered safely and in full compliance with Client and external Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) requirements.
• Provide effective management by setting and communicating clear project expectations to the project team on scope, design, schedule, costs, and project change management.
• Maintain daily visibility of project activities to validate priorities, commitments, readiness, and risk exposure; identify sequencing impacts, resource constraints, and emerging risks and escalation pathways for issues and queries to maintain project progress.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Construction management

Regulatory compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related technical discipline (Master's degree preferred)

Job description

QCS Staffing Ltd is seeking a Project Manager for a major US, Ohio life sciences build. This contract role focuses on driving governance with the General Contractor, ensuring safety and regulatory compliance, and delivering the project from design through handover.

You will lead scope, schedule, cost management, and change control while maintaining clear communication with the project team and stakeholders to keep milestones on track on a high-profile pharmaceutical capital program.