Project Manager

What you'll do

In your daily work you will lead and deliver product development projects that align with Water Linked’s strategic objectives, ensuring high-quality, innovative, and reliable underwater acoustic sensor solutions reach the market efficiently and successfully. The Project Manager’s ultimate goal is to drive project execution from concept to production handover, balancing technical excellence, people motivation, and delivery performance.

• Leadership & Team Motivation: Build, organize, and inspire a multidisciplinary team (engineering, operations, and business functions) to deliver results.
• Project Delivery: Ensure delivery of the agreed project scope, on time, within budget, and to quality standards defined in the business case and product requirements.
• Stakeholder Management: Act as the main communication bridge between management, the technical lead, product management and other stakeholders, ensuring alignment on goals, risks, and expectations.
• Process Adherence: Manage projects in accordance with the company’s development framework and quality management system, following all defined phases from Business Case to Production Handover.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify process inefficiencies and suggest improvements to strengthen Water Linked’s overall project execution capability.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain project plans, including timeline, resources, budget, and milestones.
• Facilitate business case reviews, risk evaluations, and technical design reviews.
• Define and follow up on project KPIs (time, cost, quality, and risk).
• Lead regular team meetings to track progress, address challenges, and maintain motivation.
• Coordinate with the Project Technical Lead to balance technical delivery with project delivery needs.
• Ensure documentation, compliance, and reporting are completed according to the project quality process
• Prepare and present status reports to management, summarizing progress, risks, and mitigation plans.
• Manage scope, schedule and costs changes and ensure any deviations are evaluated, approved and implemented. 
• Promote cross-functional collaboration and foster a positive, performance-driven culture.
• Ensure timely delivery of prototype builds, design testing, 0-series production, and smooth handover to production.

Who you are

First and foremost, you are an expert in your domain, confident in leading complex projects and skilled at turning plans into results. You thrive in a fast-paced, growing company with high ambitions and take genuine pride in contributing to our shared success.

You’re a natural leader who motivates people through clarity and collaboration. With your strong communication skills, you ensure that stakeholders stay aligned and that teams work toward common goals. You combine an analytical and structured mindset with a practical, decisive approach that keeps projects moving forward.

At the same time, you’re someone who values teamwork and knowledge-sharing. You see the strength in being bold, collaborative, and reliable, and you live these values in your daily work. You enjoy learning from others just as much as helping others grow, and you bring a positive, solution-oriented energy to every project you take on.

What we offer

Yes, we offer a competitive package and we could have made that bullet-list of what most employers offer, however we want to show you what we think is quite unique with Water Linked:

With us, you will be granted the opportunity to excel in your chosen field, therefore we are organized into expert groups allowing you to become really good and learning from each other in your deep discipline. 

We firmly believe that true innovation and exceptional problem-solving stem from being great at a deep discipline and possessing knowledge across various areas of expertise. That's why we have created our very own Water Linked Academy, designed to foster well-rounded skill development and encourage interdisciplinary understanding.

With us, you will be expected to take part in our journey - not just to tag along. It is therefore only natural that you are offered ownership through stock options, which is a risk-free way to take part in the company's financial growth.

Your primary workplace will be situated in our contemporary offices at Nyhavna in Trondheim, which boasts exceptional lab facilities and is conveniently accessible by car, bus, and bicycle. 

Mayday, you say?

If you have any questions, big or small, about the role, please get in touch with the hiring manager directly and they would be delighted to help.