Project Manager

Mission Zero Technologies; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading climate tech startup in London is seeking a Project Manager to oversee projects from concept to delivery, focusing on scalable carbon capture technology. The role involves leading cross-functional teams in a hybrid work environment, ensuring projects meet budget and quality requirements. Candidates should have over 5 years of project management experience, preferably in hardware or manufacturing sectors. The company offers significant growth opportunities and a collaborative culture.

Benefits

30 days of Annual Leave

3 months Paternity/Maternity Leave

£500 annual Learning & Development Grant

Unlimited mental health support

Employee Share Options Scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in project management, ideally in hardware or manufacturing industries.
• Proven ability to take products from concept to delivery.
• Experience in technology transfer from R&D into pilot and commercial scale-up.

Responsibilities

• Oversee complex projects from pre-FEED to delivery.
• Lead cross-functional teams to deliver key strategic projects.
• Effective stakeholder communication and risk mitigation.

Skills

Project management

Communication

Stakeholder management

Problem-solving

Attention to detail

Education

Engineering, Science or Financial qualification

Project Management Qualification (e.g. APM)

Tools

Google Workspace

Microsoft Office

ERP systems (e.g. NetSuite)

Job description

Overview

We’re a London-based climate tech startup working to reinvent carbon for a thriving planet. Since 2020, we have rapidly pioneered the world’s most versatile direct air capture (DAC) technology to recover historic CO₂ emissions from the atmosphere, anywhere at any scale. Backed by Breakthrough Energy Ventures, the XPRIZE foundation, Stripe, and the UK Government, we’ve moved a brand new climate technology from lab to commercial plants in under three years to rapidly empower carbon removal and sustainable utilisation.

About The Role

You have the opportunity to join MZT at a pivotal point in our company’s history — our transition from an early-stage R&D startup into a product offering, revenue-generating company poised to rapidly scale our DAC technology across the world.

Our vision for our early stage employees is that they own the business with us (literally), grow it with us and become part of the collective story of Mission Zero, taking a catalytic role in its early history and the fight against climate change.

MZT is hiring a Project Manager with a can-do attitude who thrives in providing clarity from ambiguous briefs. The role is a hybrid-based position with regular interfaces in the office and at site, with flexibility to work remotely at reasonable frequencies.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Overseeing a complex project from pre-FEED to delivery, ensuring the project is delivered on time, within budget and to the desired quality. You will be considered the CEO of your project with full support from the Leadership Team.
• Delivering against an agreed project scope, removing ambiguity where it exists.
• Lead the cross-functional squad to deliver key strategic projects from conceptualisation through to construction, with the view to scale our products across the world from pilot plant scale to full commercial deployment.
• Identifying, mitigating project risks, assigning responsibilities in your project squad and, if necessary, escalating for support to remove blockers, request budget or make cross-functional decisions.
• Ownership of the Bill of Materials and budgetary activity of the MZT product choice deployed and wider project interdependencies.
• Developing project plans, timelines and resource allocation strategies, adapting as necessary to meet evolving project demands with a holistic view of other projects within the business, to know where resource pinch points may be.
• Keeping a team focused through challenges in a fast-evolving industry, bringing order and direction to complex situations.
• Effective stakeholder communication, aligning with squad members, founders, cross-functional leads, finance and customers, having difficult conversations that are action-biased.
• Influencing a matrix organisation that does not directly report into you.
• Overseeing the fabrication for equipment and packages as ordered, working across the delivery team to ensure feasible deployment on time to project sites.
• Assessing, in collaboration with partners, customers and product development teams, possible routes for manufacturing scale-up considering geographical, cultural, carbon intensity and quality impacts.

The role will demand a smooth inheritance of our existing projects and will require careful attention to involve Commercial, Brand, Research & Development, Engineering, Procurement, Site Operations, Certification/Legislation, Customers, Government Entities and our Consortium Partners.

What You’ll Need To Be Successful In This Role

• 5+ years experience in project management, ideally in hardware or manufacturing industries (such as chemicals, heavy industry, automotive or technology with a hardware component).
• Proven ability to take products from concept to delivery, within a startup or high-growth environment.
• Experience in technology transfer from research and development into pilot and commercial scale-up.
• A passion for delivering tangible outputs, a people person, a stickler for detail whilst keeping an eye on the high-level mission.
• Be willing to work with a level of autonomy, while involving cross-functional stakeholders and knowing when to update upwards.
• Ability to interface with key science and engineering disciplines, even without a technical background. An ability to distil and clearly communicate this to potential downstream stakeholders with strong leadership.
• A thorough understanding of project management practices and tools, including adaptability between Google Workspace and Microsoft suites, budget planning and management.
• Passion for and experience in the energy and climate sector with a global perspective: understanding that Net Zero is a global challenge and issue.

Ideally You\'ll Also Have

• Engineering, Science or Financial undergraduate / postgraduate qualifications.
• Useful understanding: NetSuite / other ERP system, Change management system (of any kind, but not strictly necessary).
• Understanding of hazard and risk identification, especially relating to HAZOP, HAZID.
• Experience project managing the commissioning, running and supporting pilots or commercial plants.
• Basic industrial chemistry knowledge or strong heavy industry knowledge.
• Project Management Qualification through an appropriate body, e.g. APM.

What Can We Offer You?

• 30 days of Annual Leave
• 3 months Paternity/Maternity Leave
• £500 annual Learning & Development Grant
• Unlimited mental health support
• Employee Share Options Scheme
• Christmas Holidays office closure
• Cycle to work scheme
• Opportunities to directly impact where our company is headed
• A high-growth, high-trust environment that encourages bold creativity

At Mission Zero, we value diversity of cultural backgrounds, experience, and perspectives, and leverage these qualities to create exceptional outcomes. We are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, sex, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, age, disability, citizenship, marital or domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis as protected by applicable law. Please do not hesitate to let us know if you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation.

Our Hiring Process

Kindly allow us up to 2 weeks to review your application. Provided our schedules align, the total hiring process should take 4-6 weeks in total to wrap up.

• Application Review
• Getting To Know You - (Partner Assessment)