We are looking for an experienced R&D Project Manager to own the delivery of our most important projects — the person accountable for making sure each one is planned properly, moves at pace, and lands on time and in scope. As we scale towards our first international MW-scale pilot deployments, and a manufacturing pathway, the number of moving parts is growing fast. This role exists to bring structure, visibility, and momentum to all of it.
Job Title: R&D Project Manager
Job Type: Full-time
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Salary: Unspecified
Location: Oxford, United Kingdom
Tasks
- Define project scope, deliverables, and milestones for each project, working with the founders and technical leads to turn ambitions into a clear, realistic plan
- Build and own detailed project plans — Gantt charts, critical paths, dependency maps, and timelines — and keep them live as reality changes
- Coordinate delivery across R&D, engineering, and external partners: align owners on what needs to happen, in what order, and by when
- Own the critical path — anticipate blockers, resolve dependencies, and keep work moving so projects don’t slip
- Own the risk and issue register: surface risks early, drive mitigations, and escalate what needs a founder’s decision
- Run project reviews and steering meetings — driving decisions, tracking commitments, and keeping delivery on plan
- Read and synthesise technical documents well enough to understand real status and ask the right questions (you don’t need to be the expert)
- Give leadership and the board visibility — clear status reporting, dashboards, and straight read-outs on what’s on track and what isn’t
- Hold delivery to account across several projects in parallel without letting any of them drift
Essential Skills
- 5+ years in project or programme delivery, or 3+ years having independently owned complex, multi-workstream projects end to end
- A track record of actually landing technical projects on time — owning the plan, not just supporting someone else’s
- Fluency with project planning tools (e.g. MS Project, Smartsheet, or equivalent) and genuine command of Gantt charts, critical path, and dependency management
- Strong stakeholder management — able to align, influence, and hold technical and non-technical people to delivery commitments, at all levels
- Excellent written communication and structured, clear reporting to leadership
- Solid risk and issue management
- Comfortable reading technical documentation and operating in a scientific or engineering environment
- Autonomous and senior in mindset — owns outcomes and drives delivery without supervision
Desirable Skills
- Project management experience within R&D, engineering, deep-tech, or another hard-science or regulated environment
- A recognised project management qualification — PRINCE2 and/or APM PMQ (or working toward one); PMP is a plus given our international projects
- Experience delivering hardware, manufacturing scale-up, or pilot and commissioning projects
- Familiarity with grant-funded or publicly funded projects (Innovate UK, Horizon Europe, or similar)
- Comfort coordinating delivery across countries and time zones
- Spanish language skills is a plus.
Why us?
- Own the delivery of the projects that define our next few years — from international pilot deployments to manufacturing scale-up
- Direct access to the founders and board-level visibility from day one
- Work at the frontier of green hydrogen, on a technology with genuine potential to change the economics of the industry
- Real breadth and variety — no two projects are the same
- A role that grows as we scale from a small team toward 20+ people, with a path into programme and delivery leadership
- A mission-driven team building real technology for the energy transition
- Competitive salary, discussed during the interview process
Visa sponsorship is available for the right candidate.
Note:
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Application Process:
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