Global Hydrogen Project Lead

Nel Hydrogen; Oslo fylke; On-site; NOK 1,100,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Nel Hydrogen is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead complex customer projects using alkaline and PEM technologies. You will own execution from contract handover through close-out, coordinating cross-functional teams across engineering, procurement, manufacturing, and site activities.

You will manage scope, schedule, cost, quality, and risk, while maintaining strong customer relationships and ensuring compliance with contract commitments. International travel may be required.

Qualifications

• Higher education in engineering, business administration, project management or another relevant discipline.
• Typically 8–10+ years of relevant project management experience.
• Experience from industrial, manufacturing, EPC, energy, hydrogen, process or technology environments is an advantage.
• Solid commercial and contractual understanding, including risk management and customer negotiations.
• Experience with project governance and senior stakeholder communication.
• Proficiency in relevant project planning and reporting tools.
• Able to build, understand and actively manage an integrated project schedule, rather than relying solely on a project planner.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally as required.

Responsibilities

• Take responsibility for assigned customer projects from sales/contract handover through delivery, commissioning, acceptance and contractual close-out.
• Act as the main project interface towards the customer and establish clear communication, decision-making and escalation routes.
• Lead the cross-functional project team, ensuring clear responsibilities, deliverables, priorities and deadlines across engineering, procurement, manufacturing, quality, logistics and site activities.
• Establish and maintain the project execution plan, schedule, budget, resource plan, risk register and project reporting.
• Manage the project against the contract, identify changes to scope or contractual requirements and lead the preparation and negotiation of change and variation orders within your authority.
• Work closely with Technology, Product Management and Engineering where product maturity or technical decisions affect project commitments, schedule or risk.
• Ensure that quality and HSE requirements are incorporated into project execution and that significant issues are followed through to closure.
• Contribute to the continuous improvements of our methods by applying lessons learned from completed projects to future deliveries.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder communication

Risk management

Contractual understanding

Project governance

Scheduling

Education

Higher education in engineering, business administration, project management or another relevant discipline

Job description

Nel Hydrogen is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead complex customer projects using alkaline and PEM technologies. You will own execution from contract handover through close-out, coordinating cross-functional teams across engineering, procurement, manufacturing, and site activities.

You will manage scope, schedule, cost, quality, and risk, while maintaining strong customer relationships and ensuring compliance with contract commitments. International travel may be required.