Project Director; Tiger Team

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Kraken Robotic sis currently recruiting fora 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.

• 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.

• 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.
• 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.

• 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…