Posted 25 days ago
Project Director (Tiger Team)
@ Kraken Robotics Inc.
Mount Pearl, NL · Dartmouth, NS
Overview
Kraken Robotics is hiring a Project Director (Tiger Team) for its Canada, UK, or Denmark office. The role leads rapid diagnostic reviews and recovery interventions across underperforming projects, manufacturing operations and business units, coaching management teams toward sustainable improvement. Frequent international travel is required.
Responsibilities:
- Lead rapid diagnostic reviews of underperforming projects and operations
- Identify root causes and define turnaround plans with measurable outcomes
- Coach project and operational leaders and embed sustainable improvements
- Report to Executive Leadership and escalate risks in a timely manner
- Capture lessons learned and transfer ownership to local leadership teams
Requirements summary:
- 15+ years in project, programme, operational or business leadership
- Experience leading complex engineering, offshore, subsea or manufacturing projects
- Proven record of recovering challenged projects
- Experience in medium-volume manufacturing environments
- Degree in engineering, manufacturing, project management or business
- Professional project management qualification such as APM, PMP or PRINCE2
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-13
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-14
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-14
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Job details
| Seniority | Lead |
| Department | Project management |
| Experience | 15+ years |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Travel | air: frequent · ground: moderate |
| Work setting | Office, Client sites, Plant or factory |
| Position | Sitting and standing |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer moderate |
| Languages | English |
| Licences & certifications | APM, PMP, PRINCE2, Lean, Six Sigma |
| Education | Bachelor’s degree (required), Master’s degree (preferred) |
| Fields of study | Engineering, Manufacturing, Project Management, Business |
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Kraken Robotics Inc.
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Advanced sensors, software, batteries and underwater robotics systems. Canada, UK, US, Brazil, Germany, Denmark.
Full company description
Kraken Robotics Inc. is a marine technology company engaged in the design, development and marketing of advanced sensors for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles used in military and commercial applications. We are recognized as world leading innovators of Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS), a revolutionary underwater imaging technology that dramatically improves seabed surveys by providing ultra-high resolution imagery at superior coverage rates.
- LinkedIn followers
- 49,873
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 314
- Reported office locations
- 189 Glencoe Dr, Mount Pearl Park, Newfoundland and Labrador A1N 4P7, CA
- 27 Parker St, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia B2Y, CA
- 1 Eglinton Ave E, Toronto, Ontario M4P 3A1, CA
- 12 Channel St, 02210, Boston, Massachusetts 02210, US
- Am Hohentorshafen 3, Bremen, Bremen 28197, DE
- Alter Hafen Süd 6, Rostock, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania 18069, DE
- Gammel Strand 44, Copenhagen, Capital Region 1202, DK
- Avenida Rio Branco 89, 401, Rio de Janeiro, 20040-004, BR
- Suite A, Pavillion 7, Kingshill Park, Venture Drive, Westhill, Aberdeen, AB32 6FL, GB
- 203 S Lee St, Alexandria, Virginia 22314, US
- Business categories
- National Security
- Robotics
- Marketing
- Marine Technology
- Other recorded names
- Kraken Robotics Inc.
- Kraken Robotics
- Specialties
- AUV
- UUV
- SAS
- SONAR
- AI
- ROBOTICS
- and Robotics as a Service
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- No
- Reported total investment
- 1,000,000
Currency and observation date were not supplied; this is not a current valuation or a funding round.
Kraken Robotics Inc. is a marine technology company engaged in the design, development and marketing of advanced sensors for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles used in military and commercial applications. We are recognized as world leading innovators of Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS), a revolutionary underwater imaging technology that dramatically improves seabed surveys by providing ultra-high resolution imagery at…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Maritime Transportation |
| Company size | 201-500 employees |
| Headquarters | Mount Pearl Park, Newfoundland and Labrador |
| Organization type | Public Company |
| Year founded | 2012 |
| Specialties | AUVUUVSASSONARAIROBOTICSand Robotics as a Service |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 12 |
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NEW CAREER OPPORTUNITY
Build your career with Kraken Robotics. Make a difference to others. If innovation drives you, and you want a career that makes a difference to the world, helping humanity overcome the challenges in our oceans – safely, efficiently, and sustainably – then come join us at Kraken Robotics.
Kraken Robotics is currently recruiting for a Project Director (Tiger Team) to join our Canada, UK, or Denmark office.
The Project Director - Tiger Team is a senior leadership role responsible for leading high-impact interventions across the Group's projects, business units, manufacturing operations, and functional teams to enhance performance, accelerate execution, and deliver sustainable business improvements.
Operating as part of a specialist internal "Tiger Team", the role will be deployed into underperforming projects, operational functions, manufacturing facilities, and business units globally to rapidly assess performance challenges, identify root causes, develop recovery strategies, and support management teams in implementing sustainable improvements.
The role holder will work collaboratively alongside accountable project and business leadership rather than assume direct operational control. Success will be achieved through influence, coaching, technical credibility, structured problem-solving, and disciplined execution, ensuring ownership and accountability remain with the existing management team whilst embedding lasting improvements.
This position requires extensive experience in delivering and recovering complex engineering projects within multinational environments, combined with a strong understanding of manufacturing, production, supply chain, and operational performance management.
Frequent international travel will be required.
ROLES AND RESPONSBILITIES
Performance/Project Recovery & Intervention
- Lead rapid diagnostic reviews of underperforming projects, manufacturing operations, and business units.
- Identify root causes of performance issues across commercial, operational, technical, organisational, leadership, planning, execution, and customer-facing activities.
- Identify critical project recovery actions to improve performance, profitability, quality, safety, and customer satisfaction through practical recovery strategies.
- Provide leadership and guidance on project controls, planning, cost management, contract management, change control, and risk mitigation.
- Define and implement turnaround plans with clear milestones, responsibilities, and measurable outcomes.
- Support management teams in stabilising performance and restoring predictability of delivery.
Business & Operational Improvement
- Review manufacturing, production, engineering, procurement, supply chain, and operational processes.
- Identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, organisational barriers, and performance risks.
- Facilitate implementation of operational excellence initiatives focused on productivity, throughput, quality, cost, and delivery performance.
- Support the development of sustainable operating models and business processes.
Change Leadership
- Partner with business leaders to build commitment to improvement efforts.
- Coach and mentor project and operational leadership teams.
- Facilitate difficult conversations and align stakeholders around recovery objectives.
- Drive adoption of new ways of working whilst maintaining employee engagement and operational continuity.
- Ensure improvements are embedded and sustainable following departure from the intervention.
Governance & Reporting
- Establish clear performance baselines, recovery targets, and success measures.
- Provide regular updates to Executive Leadership and Business Unit management.
- Escalate risks, barriers, and decisions in a timely manner.
- Ensure interventions are supported by robust governance and accountability frameworks.
Knowledge Transfer
- Capture lessons learned from interventions and recovery activities.
- Effective implementation and embedding of sustainable corrective actions.
- Transfer of ownership and capability to local leadership teams.
- Support development of organisational best practices and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Contribute to strengthening project delivery and operational excellence capabilities across the Group.
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Essential Experience
- 15+ years of experience in project, programme, operational, or business leadership roles.
- Significant experience leading complex engineering, offshore, subsea, marine, energy, industrial, or manufacturing projects.
- Proven track record of successfully recovering challenged or underperforming projects and operations.
- Experience working within medium-volume manufacturing and production environments.
- Demonstrated capability in business transformation, operational improvement, and change management.
- Experience influencing senior leaders and executive stakeholders in complex matrix organisations.
- Experience working internationally across multiple regions and cultures.
Technical & Professional Skills
- Project recovery and turnaround management
- Programme and portfolio management
- Manufacturing and operational excellence
- Commercial and contract management
- Project controls and planning
- Risk and opportunity management
- Root cause analysis
- Business process improvement
- Organisational change management
- Stakeholder management
- Leadership coaching and mentoring
Qualifications
- Degree qualified in Engineering, Manufacturing, Project Management, Business, or a related discipline.
- Professional Project Management qualification (APM, PMP, PRINCE2 or equivalent).
- Lean, Six Sigma, Operational Excellence or Continuous Improvement qualifications desirable.
- MBA or equivalent business qualification advantageous.
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