Project Manager

Coalesce Management Consulting; Oslo; On-site; NOK 1,000,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Coalesce Management Consulting is seeking a Senior Project Manager for a green hydrogen facility project in Norway. You will be embedded in the owner's team, reporting to the Chief Project Officer, with execution ownership across dual packages and a critical EPC/EPCM interface.

The role focuses on schedule, quality, and cost, with immediate priorities to close RFQs for electrolyser and liquefier packages, run parallel contract structuring and supplier negotiations, and define interface ownership

Qualifications

• 15+ years of project delivery on capital projects (€50M+)
• Owner-side or client-representative experience on EPC/EPCM projects
• Background in process, chemical, petrochemical, refinery or industrial gas
• Experience managing parallel RFQ/negotiation workstreams under time pressure
• Experience assigning interface responsibility across split-package scopes
• Able to challenge contractors and protect capex
• Willing to be onsite in Norway; not remote

Responsibilities

• Own execution — schedule, quality and cost across dual-package interface
• Drive RFQ evaluation to close on both packages without schedule slippage
• Lead contract structuring and supplier negotiations in parallel with RFQ
• Document interface ownership across EPC/EPCM boundary
• Build owner\'s engineer and site manager resource plan for Q4 mobilisation
• Note: procurement and contracts administration is handled separately; focus on delivery

Skills

Owner-side experience

Contract negotiation

RFQ evaluation

Interface management

Schedule discipline

Cost control

Stakeholder management

Job description

Senior Project Manager — Green Hydrogen Facility | Norway

Freelance/Contract | Owner-Side | Onsite

The Project

A greenfield liquefied green hydrogen facility currently in active RFQ evaluation for both the electrolyser and liquefier packages, with offtake heads of terms running in parallel. Contracting structure is split: full EPC wrap on the electrolyser plant.

This is a greenfield industrial capital project at a pivotal execution stage. The decisions made in the next two to three months will define cost, schedule and risk exposure for the full build.

The Role

You will sit within the owner organisation, embedded in the project team and reporting to the Chief Project Officer. Your mandate is execution ownership — schedule, quality and cost across a dual-package structure where the interface boundary between the EPC and EPCM scopes is the single highest-value risk currently unresolved.

Immediate priorities on entry:

• Drive RFQ evaluation to close on both electrolyser and liquefier packages without schedule slippage
• Run contract structuring and supplier negotiation in parallel with RFQ — not sequentially
• Assign and contractually document interface ownership across the EPC/EPCM boundary before award
• Build the owner's engineer and site manager resource plan to support a Q4 mobilisation target

Procurement and contracts administration is covered separately. This role is delivery-focused — if your background is primarily contract administration rather than execution ownership, this is not the right fit.

What We're Looking For

• 15+ years of project delivery experience on capital projects of comparable scale (€50M+)
• Demonstrable owner-side or client-representative experience on EPC or EPCM-structured projects
• Background in process, chemical, petrochemical, refinery or industrial gas — environments where multi-contractor interface management and schedule discipline are standard practice
• Direct experience managing parallel RFQ/negotiation workstreams under time pressure
• Specific evidence of assigning interface responsibility across split-package scopes and documenting it contractually
• Comfortable challenging contractor positions and protecting capex — not just reporting risk
• Willing and able to be present onsite in Norway; this is not a remote role

Hydrogen experience is useful but not a prerequisite. What matters is proven delivery on complex, multi-contractor industrial capital projects at the right scale.

Location

Norway, onsite. Candidates must be prepared to relocate or commit to regular onsite presence for the duration of the engagement.

Engagement Type

Freelance contract. Day rate commensurate with senior owner-side PM experience on comparable capital programmes.