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