Operations Project Manager
A hands-on operations project manager who owns the integrated master schedule across 15-25+ concurrent projects spanning Swiss engineering and US manufacturing, drives milestones, risks and change management, and selects, implements and administers the company's project management platform for a fuel cell power business.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Houston
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Category
- Project management
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Roughly 4-7 years of experience in project, program or PMO roles, with meaningful time at an early-stage or high-growth company, ideally in energy, hardware, manufacturing or another capital-intensive
- PMP certification (Project Management Professional, PMI)
- Track record of driving schedules, not only reporting them, with credibility and data to push back on senior engineers' dates
- Direct experience bringing structure to an organization without it: standing up a PMO, a portfolio process or a project management platform
- Hands-on depth in a modern project management platform (e.g. Jira, Smartsheet, Asana, Monday, Planview), including configuration and administration
- Comfort managing dependencies across many concurrent projects and knowing which need escalation
- Experience working across sites, countries and time zones
- Strong influence without authority
- Bias to action and a pragmatic view of process
- Excellent written and verbal communication in English; ability to work independently in a lean, global team
- Willing to be based onsite in Houston and to travel regularly, including to Switzerland
- Existing authorization to work in the United States
Nice to have
- Experience taking a company through the transition from prototype to volume production
- Experience incorporating AI into project management
- Exposure to large-scale customer deployments, construction or EPC-style project delivery
- Data and reporting skills, including building dashboards and automating status
- Engineering or technical background
- Working proficiency in French
Full description
Full-time, onsite | Houston, Texas | Reports to the Director of Operations | Regular travel to Switzerland and to manufacturing and customer sites
About EH Energy
EH Energy is a rapidly growing fuel cell power platform delivering onsite power to data centers, defense and industry, and mobile power to the aviation and maritime sectors. Our fuel-agnostic proton exchange membrane (PEM) systems run on natural gas, biogas or hydrogen, with options for integrated carbon capture and heat recovery. Founded in Switzerland, EH Energy is now expanding into the United States, fueled by a GW-scale, late-stage pipeline of US data center customers and a soon-to-be-announced major investment round.
As we scale, we have 15 to 25+ major projects with dependencies in-flight at once, spanning our Swiss engineering, product teams, US manufacturing, customer deployments, supply chain, facilities and hiring. We are hiring a hands-on project manager to replace that with something durable: one integrated view of the portfolio, a real dependency map and an operating cadence the team trusts. This role drives the schedule rather than reporting on it. It is a build-it role for someone who has already brought order to a fast-moving, under-structured environment once, and wants to do it again with more ownership.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the integrated master schedule across all active projects in one place, with the cross-project dependency map and the critical path through them
- Drive the schedule: set and defend milestone dates, push owners to commit, and escalate early when a date is at risk rather than reporting the miss afterward
- Force trade-offs in advance when projects compete for the same resources, parts or weeks, and build the capacity plan that shows where we are over-committed before we commit further
- Keep small slips from compounding: when one date moves, know the same day what else moves with it and who needs to hear about it
- Establish and run the operating cadence (planning, weekly execution reviews and monthly portfolio reviews) and support the reporting that goes to leadership and the Board
- Run risk, issue and change management, track decisions to closure, and chase down blockers so things move between the meetings
- Define the minimum standards every project follows (scope, schedule, milestones, risks, actions, issues, decisions and status), light enough that teams use them without being told twice
- Lead the stand-up of our project management platform: evaluate the options, make a recommendation, implement it, and own the migration from spreadsheets and status decks to a single source of truth, in-line with best-in-class tools
- Own the configuration, administration and data quality of the platform, and keep improving it as the portfolio grows from 20 projects to 60+