Industrial Project Manager

Your mission

As our Industrial Project Manager, you will lead the end-to-end deployment of our first-of-a-kind industrial pilot plant — from permitting and engineering coordination to operational readiness. You will manage timelines, budgets, and cross-functional teams to ensure successful, high-quality delivery of the pilot project. This role requires a strategic, hands-on leader with strong technical insight, excellent organizational skills, and the ability to drive alignment across diverse internal and external stakeholders.

Key responsibilities

Pilot Project Deployment: Lead the execution of our pilot project, ensuring all components are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest standard. Manage the full project lifecycle including schedule development, risk-adjusted planning, and project controls.
Permits and Compliance: Oversee permitting and ensure compliance with all regulatory frameworks relevant to the pilot. Define and implement operational strategies for both deployment and post-deployment phases.
Stakeholder Coordination: Act as the central point of contact between internal engineering teams, EPC partners, external suppliers, and regulatory bodies. Drive alignment and foster collaboration across all project stakeholders.
Engineering & EPC Oversight: Ensure integration of all engineering disciplines (mechanical, electrical, process, civil, etc.) throughout the FEED and EPC phases. Review and steer key technical deliverables such as PFDs, Basis of Design, and engineering packages.
Team Leadership: Lead and support a multidisciplinary team, ensuring clarity of roles, accountability, and professional development. Cultivate a high-performance culture focused on quality, delivery, and innovation

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Skills and Experience

Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical field.
Project Experience: Proven track record in managing complex industrial engineering or infrastructure projects — ideally in hydrogen, desalination, or other new industrial scale-up or pilot projects.
EPC Expertise: In-depth understanding of the EPC project lifecycle, including key deliverables and milestones for industrial plant development.
Project Management: Strong experience in project controls, cost engineering, and planning tools (e.g. Primavera P6, MS Project), with proven ability to manage schedules, budgets, and risks. Familiar with permitting and regulatory frameworks for industrial projects.
Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage diverse stakeholders under high-pressure conditions to achieve ambitious project objectives.
Languages: Fluent in German (C1) and English (C1); additional languages are a strong advantage.

Workstyle and culture

Fast learning and quick to grasp complex topics
A team player with a hands-on mentality
Authentic and reflective self
self-Organizer and structures workstyle to keep focus and get things done
Good listener and effective communicator in cross-sectional team
Curious and open-minded

Other

Valid Work Permit for Germany, or able to obtain a permit
Location: Exiting industrial Co-Working Space in Mazahn where we have our own industrial halls to build

Benefits

Perks

Employee stock options
Flexible working hours
Hybrid working
Regular team events
Subsidized BVG ticket
Laptop and your individual work set-up
Development Budget

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About us

We are an early startup with a big vision - remove 500 million tons of global CO2 emissions from the air by 2035 through Direct Air Capture, roughly the same weight as all humans on earth combined!

To meet our climate targets the reduction of CO2 emissions is not enough, the world actively has to remove billions of tons of CO2 from our atmosphere. To achieve that we at Ucaneo develop an innovative electrochemical Direct Air Capture technology mimicking the human lung to remove CO2 from ambient air.

We are a science and mission-driven team, fast-moving with a break-or-make attitude. Our office and industrial hall is located at Schwarze-Pumpe-Weg 16, 12681 Berlin including a large outdoor area to build one of the largest industrial DAC plants in Germany.

Our commitment to you:

Impact: You will work on the biggest problem of our time, climate change, with the potential to impact the lives of billions of people
Day to day: Full responsibility to design your own workstream and control your working hours with a very high degree of freedom, flat hierarchy and teamwork
Professional growth: Join a disruptive high-growth tech startup from day 1 and grow / lead a high-performing team

Festanstellung, Vollzeit · Berlin

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