Join Us as a Project Manager!
Are you ready to make a significant impact in an innovative environment? At ORBCOMM, we’re on the hunt for a passionate Project Manager who thrives in a fast-paced, agile setting. We want you to transform your ideas into action and drive our mission forward!
Why You’ll Love Working Here
We are seeking an experienced, self-driven Project Manager to lead high-impact technical and business initiatives from concept through production launch. This role drives operational excellence, ensures stakeholder alignment, and owns end-to-end project execution across cost, quality, and schedule.
The Project Manager leads cross-functional teams across Product, Hardware, Firmware, Software, Operations, Manufacturing, Technical Publications, and Marketing, delivering disciplined planning and execution while proactively managing scope, risk, and dependencies through clear communication, tracking, and phase-gate reviews.
This role also supports continuous improvement of product development processes by enhancing project management tools, methodologies, and documentation to enable scalable, repeatable execution.
This role is based out of our Ottawa, Ontario office. We operate in a hybrid work environment, requiring a minimum of three (3) days per week onsite at our Kanata office, with the option to work remotely for up to two (2) days per week.
What You’ll Do
Leadership to manage multiple projects while meeting goals for cost, quality and delivery.Interfaces with product management and cross-functional representatives to ensure robust requirements and design specifications in step with overall project needs.Conducts planning with functional managers and project team to breaking down work and determine tasks, durations, dependencies, key milestones, deliverables, budget and risks. Project schedule is created based on project plan.Creates schedule including activities, milestones, keydeliverablesand resources.Efficiently manage and communicate milestones to stakeholders throughout the project.Understands, drives and monitors development activities and deliverables across functional areas, and with external organizations, ensuring timely execution against plan.Manages contracts, requirements and specifications with external partners/collaborators.Ensures key project engineering documentation (functional/design specs etc.) are generated and maintained throughout development.Conducts status meetings andmaintains, action and risk registers. Facilitates technical reviews with project team and holds gate review meetings with key stakeholders.Leads cross-functional teams in the identification, assessment and management of project risk, development of mitigation plans and their execution.Assesses changes in development scope to determine impacts to project.Tracks project activity to ensure execution within budget, schedule and scope.Reports project progress regarding scope, schedule and budget, deliverables/documentation and approval of changes to scope, timeline or cost.Supports the development, maintenance and ongoing improvement of efficient and effective product development process, project management tools and techniques, and related documents. Ensure that team members understand and adhere to project requirements, providing assistance and training as needed.Who You Are
You’re a strategic thinker with a knack for operational excellence, ready to tackle multiple priorities with agility and grace.
Collegediploma/University degree (Technical/Engineering) with coursework or certification in project management5+ years of experience in project management with a proventrack recordof independently leading technical and cross-functional projects.3+ years product development project management experience including interaction with project teams including remote members and cross-functional managers.Ability to work on concurrent projects with diverse scope and teams of varying size.Ability to work independently, multi-task, prioritize and organize work to meet deadlinesAbility to function well in a fast-paced environment under tight deadlinesKnowledge of project management processes,workflowand…
