Project Manager

**Project Manager | Bedford, Nova Scotia**

**INNOVASEA | Aquatic Solutions Built for Life**

As a recognized leader in environmental monitoring and fish tracking technologies, Innovasea provides work-anywhere solutions that scientists around the world count on for real-time insights. We optimize our advanced acoustic telemetry tools and consulting services to shorten the paths from data collection to conclusion, observation to discovery, and detection to protection.

**Role and Responsibilities**

Are you passionate about innovation? Are you a Project Manager with experience in technology and manufacturing? Are you interested in conservation and stewardship of our planet’s aquatic resources?

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster HydroAware technology project, led by Innovasea, is aimed at developing and commercializing the next generation of Fish Tracking technology, advancing reliability of fish monitoring in harsh marine environments and providing remote real-time insights into fish movements around hydropower facilities. As Project Manager for this project, you will additionally be accountable for project deadlines, identifying and reporting risk areas, reporting status and progress to Innovasea’s executive team, and managing communications with key project stakeholders, including various government bodies and Innovasea’s scientific and industry partners. You will play a key role in successfully seeing the HydroAware project through to completion in March 2026.

If you are driven by a desire to make a real impact and thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, we invite you join us on this exciting journey of innovation to enable the sustainable use of our oceans and freshwater ecosystems.

**Primary areas of responsibility include**
- Working with Product Management, R&D, Manufacturing, and other departments to plan and schedule the Fish Tracking Business Unit’s new product introductions and product modification activities
- Coordinating the Fish Tracking Business Units Product Development Process, overseeing the planning, execution, control and closing of a portfolio of projects and ensuring timely completion of development phase gates and on-schedule market release of new products
- Engaging with product development teams to develop project management plans, including master project schedules, cross-functional dependencies, capacity planning, and project risk registers
- Engaging with product development teams to manage project work and ensure on time and quality delivery of project milestones and deliverables
- Engaging with product development teams to manage project risks, identifying risks items and developing and executing corresponding risk response actions at appropriate times during the project
- Engaging with product development teams to ensure resource availability and allocation to tasks and projects
- Tracking project plan deliverables, schedules, and milestones and reporting project progress to team members, internal stakeholders, and senior leaders
- Implementing and owning project management tools, providing visibility, and reporting as needed to multiple management levels within the organization
- Organizing and leading cross-functional project team meetings, including kickoff meetings, daily standups, weekly/biweekly syncs, and milestone meetings as needed
- Working with product development teams to prevent bottlenecks, resolve issues and drive corrective actions
- Facilitating cross-team communication, ensuring that projects are running smoothly and maintaining synchronicity among development teams and other internal stakeholders
- Working with Product Management, R&D, Manufacturing, and other departments to bring the HydroAware project to a successful conclusion
- Managing project change requests through a change management process
- Managing and continually communicating with key project stakeholders, including government bodies, Innovasea’s industry and scientific partners
- Measuring project performance using appropriate systems, tools, and techniques to permit accurate and timely reporting of program status throughout its life cycle
- Creating and maintaining comprehensive documentation to meet the requirements of the project funding stakeholders
- Reporting project progress and status to the project’s steering committee as well as to Innovasea’s executive team
- Ensuring project compliance with the project contribution agreement
- Escalating issues as appropriate in a timely fashion to internal and external stakeholders
- Using appropriate verification techniques to manage changes in scope, schedule, and costs

**Required Skills and Experience**
- At least 10 years of experience managing a portfolio of projects in a high-tech industry
- Proven track record overseeing the planning, scheduling, and execution of new product introductions from market requirements phase through to market launch phase
- Advanced project planning and management skills including project