Engineering Project Manager

Job Description - Engineering Project Manager (71030)

November 2026

Level II Engineer

About G2V Optics

G2V Optics is a global leader in advanced lighting technologies. Founded in 2015 based on technology invented at the U of A, the company now provides solutions to world-leading organizations (e.g. NASA, Meta, Tesla, NREL). They use our light to power the most critical developments in solar renewable energy, advanced materials, and space exploration.

We are an agile team that functions on a startup-style culture based on quick learning, honesty and personal development, flexibility, and balance. If you want to be part of a team that's making a global impact from right here in Edmonton, join us.

Summary

The Engineering Project Manager (EPM) reports to the Director of Product Development and is accountable for delivering a portfolio of multiple hardware development projects on time and on budget against committed baselines. The EPM is measured on on-time milestone rate, cost variance against forecast, and forecast accuracy.

Our team consists of engineers, technical product owners, and technologists building scientific-instrumentation-level LED lighting products. The technical product owners decide what is worth doing next within a project. The EPM owns the feasibility order across the portfolio: what can actually happen when, given shared people, vendor lead times, and dependencies between projects, and whether the plan is still true. The EPM decides sequencing and resourcing across projects; the Director arbitrates escalations.

The EPM maintains timelines, risk registers with owners and dates, and milestones across all projects, and levels work across projects and people through regular conversations with technical product owners and engineers.

The ideal candidate has the technical experience to follow an argument across optics, mechanics, electronics, and software, and the confidence to tell engineers and product owners, constructively, that their plan is optimistic. Experience with project management tooling matters, as does an appetite for using new tools and AI workflows to take the overhead out of the work.

Stewardship of G2V Core Values

Every member of the G2V team is expected to embody these core values as the lived standard of how we work, communicate, and make decisions every day.

1. Do the Right Thing — This is who we are when no one is watching. We do right by people and the planet. We make hard calls, tell uncomfortable truths, own mistakes, and hold each other accountable. Letting something slide is its own kind of dishonesty. G2V exists to build a better future. We leave things better than we found them.
2. Sharpen the Team — This is the environment we build. We add energy instead of draining it. We assume good intent. We make it safe to be honest, take risks, and admit mistakes. We offer and receive tough feedback because the team matters more than our egos. Our confidence doesn’t depend on being right. We listen to understand, not to rebut. We get mad at problems, not people. We hold the door open for others to grow. We invest in the team we want to be a part of.
3. Make it Happen — This is our engine. We don’t wait to be told what matters. We keep going when others might stop. We treat “I don’t know” as a starting point, not a destination. We act before we're certain. We learn from small, quick bets. We take ownership of outcomes. We value impact more than effort.
4. Close the Loop — Everything else leads here. Integrity, team, drive — together they build something that matters. We close the loop. We seek feedback from each other and our customers. We learn equally from our successes, our failures, and our surprises. We don't solve the same problem twice. Our learning compounds, improving us as individuals, as a team, and as a company.

Primary Responsibilities

• Project Planning & Scheduling. Build and maintain the project plan for every project in the portfolio: milestones, dependencies, critical path, and contingency. Collate milestones across projects into a single time-resolved view and keep it current through a regular cadence of timeline refreshes and project conversations. Record the causes of baseline moves. Report to the Director and the technical product owners what each project is on track to deliver this quarter, and flag early when that answer changes.
• Risks, Scenarios & Trade-offs. Meet regularly with engineers, product owners, and stakeholders to keep each project's risk register and scenarios current. Keep a continual eye on how the schedule could be resourced differently (scenarios) to hit the milestones. Mentor the technical product owners through schedule thinking. When conflicts occur, decide between options with clear trade-offs between risk, timeline, and cost. Reallocate engineering time between projects within agreed limits to protect critical paths. Place and expedite critical-path orders within purchasing authority.
• Stakeholder Communication. Communicate project status to the Director, product owners, and customers grounded in data, with the top risks and scenarios alongside the dates. Keep the process light enough that engineers want the conversations.
• Tools & Automation. Select and configure the project timeline and risk tooling, building lightweight tools where off-the-shelf ones fall short. Connect workflows and data so updates flow with minimal manual re-entry, including using AI to turn project conversations into timeline and register updates. Prototype, measure, keep what works.
• Continuous Learning. Build enough technical understanding of G2V's products across optics, electronics, mechanics, and software to follow a schedule trade-off and ask the right question. Learn the products and G2V's gate process. Contribute to how the team improves its own process.

Target Skills & Qualifications

The successful candidate will have:

• A degree or diploma in Engineering, Engineering Technology, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience
• Enough technical footing to follow an engineering argument across optics, mechanics, electronics, and software, and to challenge an estimate without being the expert; a high learning trajectory
• 4+ years of project management or coordination experience, including a period of managing 3+ projects at once with a shared team
• Hardware-adjacent experience: has worked inside a hardware product development or manufacturing team (engineering, tests, new product introduction). Preference for candidates who know have experienced electronic PCB manufacturing and mechanical form factor designs
• Strong project management fundamentals: critical path, dependency chains, estimating, contingency, and risk register hygiene
• Has been accountable for schedule and project budget end to end, in the hundreds of thousands of dollars or more: built the estimate, tracked actuals against it, forecast the variance, and reported it to a sponsor or funder
• Strong in-person and written communication: able to run a short, candid conversation with an engineer, push back when the answer is optimistic, and turn it into a scenario, a risk, and a date
• Working knowledge of more than one project management tool, and an appetite for exploring new ones
• AI-oriented: already using AI tools in daily work, and willing to experiment, prototype, and connect workflows and data pipelines

Assets (Nice to Have)

• Electronics and mechanical product development experience
• Experience reporting to government funding programs such as IRAP or SR&ED
• Experience with purchasing, supplier lead-time management, or supply chain coordination for hardware
• Scripting (Python or similar) and data tooling for dashboards, pipelines, and automation
• An engineering or technologist credential (EIT, CET, or P.Eng), or project management certification (PMP, CAPM) or formal training

Mandatory Employment Requirements

• In-office presence in Edmonton for a minimum of 3 days per week; the role depends on high cadence in-person conversations with the engineering team
• International travel to customer sites as required, up to 5% of the role