Project Manager - BESS
Job description
The Project Manager is the single point of accountability for contracted BESS projects, owning delivery from kick-off to final customer acceptance. The position leads both the customer relationship and internal cross-functional teams, ensuring scope, schedule, budget and quality commitments are met.
Own the full project lifecycle for contracted BESS projects — from kick-off to final acceptance and handover — ensuring scope, schedule, budget and quality targets are met.
Build and maintain detailed project plans covering milestones, resource allocation, dependencies and deliverables; keep them live, not just filed.
Drive schedule adherence by proactively identifying slippage early and implementing corrective actions before they become customer issues.
Manage project financials: track costs vs. budget, flag deviations, and work with commercial teams on change orders, claims or contract adjustments.
Act as the primary interface to the customer throughout the project — building trust, managing expectations, and escalating or resolving issues with confidence.
Provide structured, consistent project reporting to internal and external stakeholders: status, risks, decisions and outlook — no surprises.
Facilitate project reviews, steering meetings and technical workshops with customers, subcontractors and internal teams.
Manage scope changes formally: document, assess impact, obtain approvals and update the baseline — avoid scope creep eroding margin.
Lead a virtual project team spanning engineering, procurement, logistics, commissioning and service — align priorities, resolve blockers and keep everyone moving in the same direction.
Coordinate with supply chain and manufacturing to protect material availability and avoid site readiness failures.
Ensure compliance with contractual obligations, internal quality standards and relevant safety and regulatory requirements.
Organise structured handover of completed projects to operations, service or the customer's own teams, with full documentation in place.
Maintain a live risk register; present risks and mitigation options clearly to support management decisions - don't sit on problems.
Capture lessons learned from each project and actively feed them back into improved processes, templates and estimating assumptions.
Contribute to the development of BESS project management standards, tools and best practices within the team.
Benefits
Flexibility in working hours. We are a result-driven organization and we let our colleagues manage their time.
Enjoy 5 extra days of paid holiday! We value work-life balance and understand the importance of spending quality time with family and friends.
Transportation allowance – Commuting made easy! At our company, we support our employees by covering a portion of their transportation costs, whether they travel to work daily or only occasionally.
Enjoy daily meal vouchers worth €4.29 to support your healthy eating habits at work!
A company culture that is based on trust, openness, meritocracy and heart-centered leadership, that we shape together and every opinion matters.
Diversity! We are a cultural melting pot!
Co-creation of the company processes and organization. Your ideas are what we need.
Professional growth
Fast career growth. We believe in the internal promotion.
Personal and professional growth through various learning opportunities, especially through work with top industry experts and the international management team.
Exposure to a fast-developing, disruptive project that will shape the future of mobility;
Possibility to support Company scale-up towards Giga factories securing strategic customers;
Access to a broad network of experienced colleagues and clients from a variety of industries across the globe.
Requirements
Experience requirements:
5+ years of project management experience in preferably in energy, power systems, EPC or industrial capital projects
Proven experience managing cross-functional projects with multiple stakeholders
Proven track record delivering projects with direct customer accountability
Other requirements:
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Project Management, Business or a related field.
Willingness to travel to project sites and customer offices as required
Strong communicator — able to simplify complexity for customers and escalate cleanly to management
Fluent English (written and spoken); additional languages are a plus
Strong organizational and planning skills
Selection process
Company description
InoBat is a Slovakia-based company established in January 2019 aiming to create an R&D cluster and accelerator focusing on the development of battery solutions in the energy and e-mobility sectors. InoBat develops technologies with international partners looking to expand their global reach to the European continent in general, especially Central and Eastern Europe.
InoBat Auto, one of its flagship projects, is a Slovak battery production and R&D company. Together with its technological partner Wildcat Discovery Technologies, its aim is to build the first vehicle lithium-ion battery production line and research center in Slovakia.