engineering service project manager

Nord Quantique; Sherbrooke; On-site; CAD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

5 weeks vacation

Group insurance (dental care)

Virtual care

Lifestyle spending account

Job summary

Nord Quantique is building a Project Management Office (PMO) to support and scale its scientific roadmap. The PMO role will coordinate priorities, track progress, and ensure consistency in project coordination across the organization.

As a Project Manager, you will partner with technical leads and management to bring clarity and structure to evolving research programs, enabling teams to deliver on milestones in a dynamic R&D environment.

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating R&D or complex technical programs.
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams and priorities.
• Strong written and verbal communication in English and French is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate project timelines, deliverables, and milestones across R&D teams.
• Maintain clarity on priorities, dependencies, and overall project status.
• Support technical leads in planning, resource coordination, and milestone definition.
• Facilitate cross-team communication and ensure alignment across projects.
• Maintain up-to-date project documentation and tracking tools.
• Identify execution bottlenecks and support resolution of operational issues.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Scheduling

Communication

Job description

R&D Project Manager

Job details: (permanent position, 40 hour per week)

Contact: [phone], [e-mail]

About Nord Quantique

At Nord Quantique, we strive to build impactful technology by relentlessly pushing our understanding of quantum science. We are an interdisciplinary team of scientists, engineers, innovators, builders, and enthusiasts on a mission to make quantum computing a reality. Our quantum processors are designed to reduce errors in quantum computation to facilitate long-term scaling toward fully-foledged quantum computers. We believe it is our responsibility to deliver this transformative technology for the greater good of society.

Located at the heart of the beautiful Eastern Townships region in the province of Quebec, Canada, we develop our technology in the vibrant quantum ecosystem of Sherbrooke. Leaning on more than a decade of vertical integration of quantum hardware, we are leveraging a comprehensive pool of quantum technology and micro-electronic infrastructure to deploy our quantum computing technology

Salary: $95,000? $125,000

Benefits: 5 weeks of vacation, group insurance (including dental care), virtual care, lifestyle spending account (all available after 3 months of service)

Our current needs

Nord Quantique is building its Project Management Office (PMO) to support and scale the execution of its scientific roadmap in a context of growing R&D complexity.

As a Project Manager within this function, you will work under the guidance of the Head of PMO and play a key role in coordinating and supporting the execution of R&D projects across the organization.

You will act as a strategic operational partner to technical and team leads, helping bring clarity, alignment, and structure to fast-moving and evolving research programs. Through hands-on involvement in day-to-day coordination, you will ensure that priorities, dependencies, and milestones remain visible, aligned, and actionable, while facilitating communication across interdisciplinary teams.

In an initial phase, you will work closely with multiple R&D teams to coordinate priorities, track progress, identify bottlenecks, and support execution. This phase is critical for developing a deep understanding of team workflows, building strong working relationships, and ensuring consistency in project coordination practices.

As the PMO matures, your role will progressively evolve toward increased ownership of project coordination activities and active contribution to the implementation and continuous improvement of project management practices, tools, and processes tailored to an exploratory R&D environment where priorities evolve and uncertainty is inherent.

This position is ideal for someone who enjoys operating at the intersection of science, engineering, and operations, who thrives in dynamic and complex environments, and who is motivated by enabling technical teams to do their best work by bringing structure without rigidity.

Working in close collaboration with technical and management staff at Nord Quantique, the chosen candidate will:

• Coordinate project timelines, deliverables, and internal milestones across R&D teams
• Maintain clarity on priorities, dependencies, and overall project status
• Support technical leads in planning, resource coordination, and milestone definition
• Facilitate cross-team communication and ensure alignment across projects
• Maintain up-to-date project documentation and tracking tools
• Identify execution bottlenecks and support resolution of operational

• Location Sherbrooke , QC
• Work location On site
• Salary $ 95,000 to $ 125,000 YEAR annually
• Terms of employment Permanent employment Full time
• Starts as soon as possible
• vacancies 1 vacancy
• Source Jobillico #17456829

Advertised until

2026-09-18