Project Manager - Synthesis

QCS Staffing; Kentucky; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

QCS Staffing is seeking a Project Manager - Synthesis for an Ohio-based, 12-month assignment on a leading pharmaceutical program. This role oversees governance with the General Contractor and drives safe, compliant delivery across design, construction, commissioning and handover.

You will coordinate scope, schedule, and cost with cross-functional teams to ensure project progress and adherence to client processes and expectations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related technical discipline (Master’s degree preferred).
• Extensive experience delivering large-scale pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or life sciences capital projects valued between $500 million and $2 billion, ideally within a greenfield environment.
• Proven experience managing EPC or General Contractors on complex, highly regulated construction projects.
• Demonstrated end-to-end project delivery capability across design, construction, commissioning, and handover phases.

Responsibilities

• Serving as the primary day-to-day governance interface for the General Contractor, maintaining regular face-to-face engagement, being accessible, responsive, decisive, and proactively determining disposition and escalation pathways for issues/queries to maintain project progress.
• Ensuring that the project is delivered safely and in full compliance with Client and external Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) requirements.
• Maintains structured and transparent engagement with the General Contractor to support governance decisions and issue disposition.
• Understands and works in full compliance with all Client Project Management processes.
• Provides decisive and accountable management, setting and communicating clear expectations to the project team regarding scope, design intent, schedule, cost, and change management.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related technical discipline

Job description

Project Manager - Synthesis - Ohio - 12 months

Be part of a next-generation pharmaceutical project that’s transforming how medicines are made.

We’re supporting a major new-build facility in Ohio, a multi-billion-dollar investment designed to push the boundaries of science and engineering. We’re looking for a Project Manager to support this project and help deliver this world-class program.

What You’ll Deliver

• Serving as the primary day-to-day governance interface for the General Contractor, maintaining regular face-to-face engagement, being accessible, responsive, decisive, and proactively determining disposition and escalation pathways for issues/queries to maintain project progress.
• Ensuring that the project is delivered safely and in full compliance with Client and external Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) requirements.
• Maintains structured and transparent engagement with the General Contractor to support governance decisions and issue disposition.
• Understands and works in full compliance with all Client Project Management processes.
• Provides decisive and accountable management, setting and communicating clear expectations to the project team regarding scope, design intent, schedule, cost, and change management.

What You’ll Need

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related technical discipline (Master’s degree preferred).
• Extensive experience delivering large-scale pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or life sciences capital projects valued between $500 million and $2 billion, ideally within a greenfield environment.
• Proven experience managing EPC or General Contractors on complex, highly regulated construction projects.
• Demonstrated end-to-end project delivery capability across design, construction, commissioning, and handover phases.