Sr Project Manager, Ops Read

Location: Long Beach, California, United States

Employment Type: Full-time

Title: Sr. Project Manager, Operational Readiness

Location: Long Beach, CA

Department: Hospital Administration

Status: Full-time

Shift: Day

Pay Range*: $132,558-$192,192/annual

MemorialCare is a nonprofit integrated health system that includes four leading hospitals, award-winning medical groups – consisting of over 200 sites of care, and more than 2,000 physicians throughout Orange and Los Angeles Counties. We are committed to increasing access to patient-centric, affordable, and high-quality healthcare; your personal contributions are integral to MemorialCare's recognition as a market leader and innovator in value-based and other care models.

Across our family of medical centers, we support each one of our bright, talented employees in reaching the highest levels of professional development, contribution, collaboration, and accountability. Whatever your role and whatever expertise you bring, we are dedicated to helping you achieve your full potential in an environment of respect, innovation, and teamwork.

Position Summary

Responsible for leading operational planning, readiness, and execution activities associated with major capital, construction, infrastructure, and strategic initiatives across Long Beach Medical Center and Miller Children’s and Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital. Serves as the primary liaison between Operations, Facilities, Construction, Clinical Departments, Infection Prevention, Safety, Regulatory, and Administrative leaders to ensure projects are implemented with minimal disruption to patient care and hospital operations.

Oversees project governance, stakeholder engagement, risk mitigation, communication planning, issue escalation, and operational transition activities to ensure projects are completed safely, efficiently, and in alignment with organizational goals.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities of the Job

Serves as the operational lead for major construction and infrastructure projects.

Coordinates project impacts across patient care areas, support services, physician practices, and ancillary departments.

Develops operational readiness and activation plans for phased construction projects.

Partners with Facilities, Design and Construction and external contractors.

Leads readiness assessments and transition planning.

Develops swing-space, relocation, decanting, and activation strategies.

Coordinates clinical and operational sign-offs before construction and external contractors.

Leads readiness assessments and transition planning.

Oversees cutover and go-live planning.

Identifies operational, patient safety, infection prevention, and regulatory risks.

Coordinates mitigation plans with affected departments.

Supports regulatory survey readiness and construction documentation requirements.

Develops executive dashboards.

Maintains integrated project schedules.

Tracks milestones, risks, decisions, and action items.

Provides regular updates to executive leadership.

Develops communication strategies for impacted departments.

Facilitates stakeholder engagement.

Coordinated education and transition activities.

Performs other duties as assigned.

*Placement in the pay range is based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, relevant years of experience and qualifications. In addition to base pay, there may be additional compensation available for this role, including but not limited to, shift differentials, extra shift incentives, and bonus opportunities. Health and wellness is our passion at MemorialCare—that includes taking good care of employees and their dependents. We offer high quality health insurance plan options, so you can select the best choice for your family. And there’s more...Check out our MemorialCare Benefits for more information about our Benefits and Rewards.