Operations Project Manager

EH Group•Houston, TX

8d•Onsite

About The Position

EH Group Engineering (EHG) is a rapidly growing fuel cell power platform delivering onsite power to data centers, defense and industry, and mobile power to the aviation and maritime sectors. Our fuel-agnostic proton exchange membrane (PEM) systems run on natural gas, biogas or hydrogen, with options for integrated carbon capture and heat recovery. Founded in Switzerland, EHG is now expanding into the United States, fueled by a GW-scale, late-stage pipeline of US data center customers and a soon-to-be-announced major investment round. 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.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

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

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