Operations Project ManagerFull-time, onsite | Houston, Texas | Reports to the Director of Operations | Regular travel to Switzerland and to manufacturing and customer sites
As we move from prototyping into full-scale execution, we have 15 to 25+ major projects in flight at once, spanning our Swiss engineering and product teams and our US manufacturing stand-up, customer deployments, supply chain, facilities and hiring. Today they are held together by people rather than systems. We are hiring a hands-on project manager to replace that with something durable: one integrated view of the portfolio, a real dependency map and an operating cadence the team trusts. This role drives the schedule rather than reporting on it. It is a build-it role for someone who has already brought order to a fast-moving, under-structured environment once, and wants to do it again with more ownership.
Key Responsibilities- Own the integrated master schedule across all 15 to 25+ active projects in one place, with the cross-project dependency map and the critical path through them
- Drive the schedule: set and defend milestone dates, push owners to commit, and escalate early when a date is at risk rather than reporting the miss afterward
- Force trade-offs in advance when projects compete for the same people, parts or weeks, and build the capacity picture that shows where we are over-committed before we commit further
- Keep small slips from compounding: when one date moves, know the same day what else moves with it and who needs to hear about it
- Establish and run the operating cadence (planning, weekly execution reviews and monthly portfolio reviews) and support the reporting that goes to leadership and the Board
- Run risk, issue and change management, track decisions to closure, and chase down blockers so things move between the meetings
- Define the minimum standards every project follows (scope, schedule, milestones, risks, actions, issues, decisions and status), light enough that teams use them without being told twice
- Lead the stand-up of our project management platform: evaluate the options, make a recommendation, implement it, and own the migration from spreadsheets and status decks to a single source of truth
- Own the configuration, administration and data quality of the platform, and keep improving it as the portfolio grows from 20 projects to 60+
- Build the reporting and dashboards so status is generated rather than assembled by hand, and anyone can see where a project stands without having to ask
- Run one portfolio across Switzerland and the United States, with the same schedule, definitions and view of status on both sides, working across time zones without losing days to them
- Manage the handoffs between Swiss engineering and US manufacturing and operations, where most of our dependencies and most of our risk live
- Partner with project and functional owners across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, customer deployment and finance so the process serves them rather than taxes them
- Give the CEO, CTO and COO a clear portfolio view of what is on track, what is at risk and what needs a decision, and shape how the function scales, including the first hire on your team
Skills and Experience Required- Roughly 4 to 7 years of experience in project, program or PMO roles, with meaningful time at an early-stage or high-growth company, ideally in energy, hardware, manufacturing or another capital-intensive environment
- PMP certification (Project Management Professional, PMI)
- A track record of driving schedules, not only reporting them: comfortable telling a senior engineer that their date does not work, with the credibility and the data to make it stick
- Direct experience bringing structure to an organization that did not have it: standing up a PMO, a portfolio process or a project management platform, including what you built, what you deliberately left out and how you got people to adopt it
- Hands-on depth in a modern project management platform (for example Jira, Smartsheet, Asana, Monday or Planview), including configuration and administration, not only use
- Comfort managing dependencies across many concurrent projects, and the judgment to know which need escalation
- Experience working across sites, countries and time zones, with the discipline that makes distributed work move rather than stall
- Strong influence without authority: the process only works if project owners choose to use it
- A bias to action and a pragmatic view of process: enough structure to make the chaos legible, not so much that it slows the company down
- Excellent written and verbal communication in English, and the ability to work independently in a lean, global team
- Willing to be based onsite in Houston and to travel regularly, including to Switzerland
- Must have existing authorization to work in the United States
Desirable- Experience taking a company through the transition from prototype to volume production
- Experience incorporating AI into project management to enable organization-level speed
- Exposure to large-scale customer deployments, construction or EPC-style project delivery
- Data and reporting skills, including building dashboards and automating status rather than assembling it by hand
- An engineering or technical background
- Working proficiency in French
What We Offer- The opportunity to build EHG's global project management function from the ground up, rather than maintain an existing one
- Close work with the Director of Operations and, through the portfolio view, with the CEO, CTO and COO
- Competitive compensation with equity
- Relocation support within the US
Start date: ImmediatelyOnly candidates selected for interview will be contacted.
