Quality Systems Project Manager (12-Month Contract)

Pacer Group; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 69,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401(k)

Job summary

Pacer Group in Plano, TX is seeking a Project Manager to coordinate planning, governance, implementation, and ongoing support of regional Quality Systems initiatives across North American manufacturing organizations.

This role serves as a central point of coordination between Quality, Information Systems, Enterprise Architecture, database and data teams, Finance, Communications, Agile delivery teams, and manufacturing-site stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Experience coordinating complex, cross-functional programs or technology-enabled business initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of project planning, status reporting, risk and issue management, dependency tracking, and stakeholder coordination.
• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and executive-communication skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Teams, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Power Apps, and other Microsoft 365 applications.
• Experience maintaining project records, dashboards, or similar project-management tools.
• Ability to manage multiple initiatives, priorities, and deadlines across geographically distributed organizations.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate program and project planning, execution, governance, and delivery across multiple Quality Systems initiatives.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration among technical teams, business stakeholders, manufacturing sites, and leadership.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, timelines, milestones, dependencies, and program documentation.
• Track project progress, deliverables, risks, issues, and impediments, escalating concerns as needed.
• Coordinate system releases, stage and production deployments, infrastructure readiness, and change-control activities.
• Facilitate meetings with technical teams, business stakeholders, and leadership to ensure alignment and timely decision-making.
• Prepare program status reports, executive presentations, governance reviews, and stakeholder communications.
• Support business planning, budgeting, business cases, value realization, and capacity-planning discussions.
• Maintain project records, dashboards, and other program-management tools.
• Support quality-system initiatives, strategic planning activities, database transitions, and technology implementations.
• Promote continuous improvement, standardization, and efficiency across regional Quality Systems activities.
• Manage competing priorities and coordinate work across geographically distributed teams.
• Travel to manufacturing sites as required, including potential international travel.
• Follow manufacturing-site safety requirements, including the use of hard hats, safety glasses, and safety shoes.

Skills

Cross-functional coordination

Project planning & reporting

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Teams

Excel

PowerPoint

SharePoint

Power Apps

Job description

Pacer Group in Plano, TX is seeking a Project Manager to coordinate planning, governance, implementation, and ongoing support of regional Quality Systems initiatives across North American manufacturing organizations.

This role serves as a central point of coordination between Quality, Information Systems, Enterprise Architecture, database and data teams, Finance, Communications, Agile delivery teams, and manufacturing-site stakeholders.