Strategic Automation Program Lead (Life Sciences)

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

Job summary

QCS Staffing Ltd. seeks an Automation Program Manager to lead a new-build life sciences facility project in Ohio. You will orchestrate cross-functional teams across engineering, IT/infrastructure, and operations to deliver the automation program on schedule and within budget.

You will establish governance, track readiness, and maintain dashboards for milestones, risks, and dependencies, while coordinating handovers and readiness reviews from design through commissioning.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant technical experience.
• Extensive project management experience delivering technical, engineering, infrastructure, automation or manufacturing projects.
• Personally managed at least one automation, computerized system or IT/OT deployment project, covering planning, deployment and readiness or handover.
• Managed at least three concurrent technical workstreams within one project or program, tracking milestones and dependencies across engineering, IT/infrastructure and operations teams.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain program governance, including coordination forums, action and decision logs, risk registers, dependency tracking and escalation pathways.
• Build and maintain dashboards showing cross-functional milestones, progress, dependencies, roadblocks and operational readiness status.
• Facilitate recurring meetings and readiness reviews, converting discussions into documented actions, decisions and issues with accountable owners and target dates.
• Track system onboarding, infrastructure and network readiness, automation platform deployment and non-PLC Vendor Packaged Equipment readiness.

Skills

Project management

Automation deployment

Cross-functional workstreams

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/CS/IT or related field

Job description

QCS Staffing Ltd. seeks an Automation Program Manager to lead a new-build life sciences facility project in Ohio. You will orchestrate cross-functional teams across engineering, IT/infrastructure, and operations to deliver the automation program on schedule and within budget.

You will establish governance, track readiness, and maintain dashboards for milestones, risks, and dependencies, while coordinating handovers and readiness reviews from design through commissioning.