Senior Project Recovery Director - Tiger Team

Kraken Robotics Inc; Mount Pearl; On-site; CAD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraken Robotics Inc. seeks a Project Director - Tiger Team to lead rapid recovery and performance improvements across multinational projects, manufacturing, and supply chains.

This senior role emphasizes influence, coaching, and disciplined execution, with ownership remaining with the current management teams. You will travel frequently and collaborate across Canada, UK, or Denmark offices to drive turnaround plans, governance, and knowledge transfer, embedding sustainable improvements in

Qualifications

• 15+ years in project or operational leadership roles.
• Experience in complex engineering, offshore, subsea, marine, energy, industrial, or manufacturing projects.
• Proven track record in recovering challenged projects and operations.
• Experience working within medium-volume manufacturing and production environments.
• Demonstrated capability in business transformation, operational improvement, and change management.
• Experience influencing senior leaders and executive stakeholders in complex matrix organisations.
• Experience working internationally across multiple regions and cultures.

Responsibilities

• Lead rapid diagnostic reviews of underperforming projects, manufacturing operations, and business units.
• Identify root causes of performance issues across commercial, operational, technical, organisational, leadership, planning, execution, and customer-facing activities.
• Identify critical project recovery actions to improve performance, profitability, quality, safety, and customer satisfaction through practical recovery strategies.
• Provide leadership and guidance on project controls, planning, cost management, contract management, change control, and risk mitigation.
• Define and implement turnaround plans with clear milestones, responsibilities, and measurable outcomes.
• Support management teams in stabilising performance and restoring predictability of delivery.
• Review manufacturing, production, engineering, procurement, supply chain, and operational processes.
• Identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, organisational barriers, and performance risks.
• Facilitate implementation of operational excellence initiatives focused on productivity, throughput, quality, cost, and delivery performance.
• Support the development of sustainable operating models and business processes.
• Partner with business leaders to build commitment to improvement efforts.
• Coach and mentor project and operational leadership teams.
• Facilitate difficult conversations and align stakeholders around recovery objectives.
• Drive adoption of new ways of working whilst maintaining employee engagement and operational continuity.
• Ensure improvements are embedded and sustainable following departure from the intervention.
• Establish clear performance baselines, recovery targets, and success measures.
• Provide regular updates to Executive Leadership and Business Unit management.
• Escalate risks, barriers, and decisions in a timely manner.
• Ensure interventions are supported by robust governance and accountability frameworks.
• Capture lessons learned from interventions and recovery activities.
• Effective implementation and embedding of sustainable corrective actions.
• Transfer of ownership and capability to local leadership teams.
• Support development of organisational best practices and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Contribute to strengthening project delivery and operational excellence capabilities across the Group.

Skills

Project recovery

Programme management

Manufacturing excellence

Operational improvement

Risk management

Leadership coaching

Contract management

Cross-region leadership

Stakeholder influence

Education

Engineering or related degree

Job description

Kraken Robotics Inc. seeks a Project Director - Tiger Team to lead rapid recovery and performance improvements across multinational projects, manufacturing, and supply chains.

This senior role emphasizes influence, coaching, and disciplined execution, with ownership remaining with the current management teams. You will travel frequently and collaborate across Canada, UK, or Denmark offices to drive turnaround plans, governance, and knowledge transfer, embedding sustainable improvements in