Senior Project Manager

KSAT – Kongsberg Satellite Services; Tromsø; On-site; NOK 1,100,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Health insurance

Pension schemes

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

KSAT – Kongsberg Satellite Services seeks a Senior Project Manager to own and govern the KSATlite investment portfolio, coordinating with management, engineers and suppliers to ensure antennas rollout and system readiness on time and within budget.

The role covers complex, multi-year delivery with significant budget accountability across a global ground network, with candidates based in Tromsø, Trondheim or Oslo and fluent in English and Norwegian.

Qualifications

• Experience managing large, complex multi-site project portfolios.
• Strong budget planning, tracking and cost control.
• Experience with project management and reporting tooling.
• Structured approach to risk management in demanding technical environments.
• Ability to discuss numbers and priorities with management and detail with technicians.
• Experience working with external suppliers and contractors.
• Fluent in English and Norwegian.

Responsibilities

• Own planning and execution of the KSATlite investment portfolio.
• Lead rollout of 100+ antennas across the global ground network over the next five years.
• Drive the tech refresh and maintenance program across 150+ systems.
• Manage budgets, cost control, and financial reporting across concurrent projects.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate risk across a complex, multi-site portfolio.
• Select and run the tooling that keeps planning, budget, and reporting under control.
• Coordinate suppliers and contractors on delivery, contracts, and schedules.
• Be the connecting point between management, engineers, and technicians.

Skills

Portfolio management

Budget management

Multi-site projects

Stakeholder communication

Risk management

External suppliers

Education

PM certification (PMP/IPMA/PRINCE2)

Job description

Project & portfolio management - budget & risk - complex delivery environment

The opportunity

KSATlite is scaling fast. Over the next five years, we will deploy more than 100 new antennas across our global ground network, while running the tech refresh and maintenance of a fleet of 150+ systems already in operation. Behind this growth sits an investment portfolio of more than 1,000 MNOK, and we want someone who can own it end to end. For KSATlite, having the network growth management close to the business it serves is critical and we need a Senior Project Manager who plans, executes, and controls the KSATlite investment portfolio directly, working together with KSATlite management, engineers, and suppliers to get antennas in the ground and systems running, on time and on budget. This is a role with real scope: complex, multi-site, multi-year delivery, real budget accountability, and a direct line of sight from the plan you make to the network that goes live. The position can be based in Tromsø, Trondheim, or Oslo.

What You Will Do

• Own planning and execution of the KSATlite investment portfolio
• Lead the rollout of 100+ new antennas across our global ground network over the next five years
• Drive the tech refresh and maintenance program across 150+ systems
• Manage budgets, cost control, and financial reporting across concurrent projects
• Identify, assess, and mitigate risk across a complex, multi-site portfolio
• Select and run the tooling that keeps planning, budget, and reporting under control
• Coordinate suppliers and contractors on delivery, contracts, and schedules
• Be the connecting point between management, engineers, and technicians

What You Bring

• Solid experience managing large, complex, multi-site project portfolios
• Strong budget management skills, planning, tracking, and controlling
• Experience with project management and reporting tooling
• A structured approach to risk management in demanding technical environments
• The range to talk numbers and priorities with management, and detail with technicians
• Experience working directly with external suppliers and contractors
• Good written and spoken English & Norwegian

Who You Are

• Decisive and structured, you drive projects to completion without waiting to be asked
• Comfortable owning a complex, high-value portfolio and making calls under uncertainty
• A natural communicator who adapts easily between boardroom and construction site
• Pragmatic under pressure, and calm when several projects compete for attention at once
• Collaborative: you bring management, engineers, and suppliers onto the same page

Nice to have

• Formal project management certification (PMP, IPMA, PRINCE2, or similar)
• Experience with capital-intensive infrastructure, telecom, or network rollout programs
• Background in the space, satellite, or defense indust

KSAT - A Stellar Workplace

We Are a Rapidly Growing Organization With Solid Finances. With Us, You Get Skilled And Committed Colleagues, a Flexible And Varied Everyday Life, Opportunities To Grow And a Unique Opportunity To Help Develop An Exciting Future For KSAT. If This Wasn't Enough, We Also Offer, Among Other Things

• A central role in a 70-person team that punches well above its weight in the global space industry
• We are a social group who do things outside of work, both under the auspices of the company and on private initiative. Here you will be included from day one.
• Competitive salary conditions, training courses, training room at work that employees are free to use, very good health insurance and pension schemes, telephone and mobile subscriptions, company cabin, support for sports, etc
• An environment you are guaranteed to learn from - regardless of your level of expertise today. You will join an environment with high competence and with a strong desire and will to deliver world-class quality - at all levels of the organisation.

KSAT sees the importance to ensure diversity in the company by taking gender, age, and cultural background into account during recruitment. Candidates must be eligible to obtain Norwegian security clearance. This is a firm requirement for the position, and candidates in final stages will go through a background check done by Semac. We review applications on an ongoing basis.

Simen Kristoffersen, KSATlite Product Manager.