Senior Project Manager

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

At Nel, we deliver electrolyser solutions to customers internationally. Our projects require close coordination between the customer and EPC partners, engineering, procurement and supply chain, manufacturing, quality, logistics, commissioning and site activities.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager to take responsibility for complex customer projects using Nel’s Alkaline and PEM technologies.

You will take over projects following contract award and lead them through execution, delivery, commissioning, customer acceptance and contractual close-out. You will be accountable for keeping the project team aligned with the contract, schedule, cost, quality requirements and customer commitments.

If this sounds like the kind of challenge you enjoy, this could be an exciting opportunity to bring your project leadership and industrial delivery experience to a global company contributing directly to the green transition.

Your New Role

As Senior Project Manager, you will take ownership of executing assigned customer projects using Nel’s Alkaline and PEM technologies. The primary focus will be on delivering projects relying on Alkaline technology (Atmospheric and Pressurized).

You will be the main project interface towards the customer and will lead the cross-functional Nel team responsible for delivering the project. Your responsibility is to keep the project aligned with the contract and to maintain control of scope, schedule, cost, cash flow, quality, risk and customer commitments. When problems arise, you will be expected to establish the facts, bring the right people together, define the available options and drive the issue towards a decision.

Some projects will involve technology or products that are still being industrialised. In these cases, you will work closely with the relevant technology and product teams to understand maturity, dependencies and delivery risks and reflect them in the project plan and customer communication. Technical design and product approval remain with the responsible technical functions.

Your 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.

What We Are Looking For

We are looking for an experienced professional who has already managed complex customer projects and understands what it means to be accountable for their delivery.

You should be comfortable working directly with customers and senior stakeholders, leading teams whose members do not report directly to you, and dealing with the commercial and contractual consequences of changes, delays and competing priorities.

We are particularly interested in candidates who have worked in an industrial, EPC, energy, process-technology or equipment-delivery environment where engineering, manufacturing, suppliers and customer/site activities must come together to deliver a contractual scope.

You bring with you:

• Higher education in engineering, business administration, project management or another relevant discipline.
• Typically 8–10+ years of relevant project management experience, including complex customer delivery projects.
• 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.

What You Will Get From Working With Us

• An opportunity to work in a company in a leading position in the hydrogen and clean energy market.
• Responsibility for international customer projects in the hydrogen industry.
• The opportunity to work across Nel’s Alkaline and PEM technologies.
• A role with direct exposure to customers, EPC partners, engineering, manufacturing and site execution.
• The opportunity to influence not only individual projects but also how Nel executes future projects through lessons learned and improved project practices.
• Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits, pension and insurance schemes.

About Nel Hydrogen

Nel Hydrogen is the global leader in on-site hydrogen generation and the largest electrolyser manufacturer in the world. Nel Hydrogen is leading the charge into the new green hydrogen economy.

If you are driven by personal initiative combined with loyalty and commitment to your team and the ability to convert complex issues into simple solutions, then we want to talk to you. Join a company that is on the cutting edge of new energy innovations, with an energized, progressive culture.

At Nel, you will join a community where your expertise does more than service a company – it supports a vision. Step into a role where your professional skills will impact the future of green energy.

Nel has a history tracing back to 1927 and is today a leading pure play hydrogen electrolyser technology company with a global presence. The company specializes in Alkaline and PEM technology for production of renewable hydrogen. Nel's product offerings are key enablers for a green hydrogen economy, making it possible to decarbonize various industries such as transportation, refining, steel, and ammonia.