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# Project Manager at North Vector Dynamics Inc.

- **Company:** North Vector Dynamics Inc.
- **Location:** Calgary, Canada
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/northvectordynamics/52534e79-17a2-45b1-8273-c4ad564db41a

## Job description

Calgary, AB │ On-Site │ Full-Time

## About the Role

North Vector Dynamics is building technology that matters, and we’re looking for a sharp, well-organized Project Manager who will coordinate projects across engineering, manufacturing, operations, finance, and leadership while owning several critical administrative and reporting processes. A central part of the role will be ensuring that project hours, milestones, costs, risks, deliverables, and supporting records are accurately captured and reported. The successful candidate will prepare specialized timesheets, monthly client reports, invoice documentation, government funding submissions, and SR&ED support materials. They will also serve as the primary administrator of the company’s project management platform, [Monday.com](http://Monday.com). This is a hands-on position suited to someone who can move comfortably between detailed administrative work and broader project leadership. The Project Manager will assist in the transition from prototyping to scalable defence production. The position is full-time onsite at NVD’s Calgary location.

## What You’ll Do

- Project Planning and Coordination o Lead project meetings, coordinate cross-functional activities, track deliverables, and provide clear status updates to leadership and external stakeholders.
- Timekeeping and Labour Reporting o Work with employees and contractors to ensure project hours are entered accurately, coded correctly, and submitted on time. o Prepare specialized government timesheet forms and reconcile labour records with project budgets, invoices, funding claims, and internal systems.
- Government Client Reporting and Invoicing o Prepare monthly client reports using government-provided templates, including updates on progress, milestones, expenditures, risks, and upcoming activities. o Prepare monthly invoice forms and supporting documentation while ensuring accuracy, confidentiality, appropriate approvals, and compliance with contractual requirements.
- Government Funding and Compliance o Coordinate documentation, reporting, claims, and application support for government contracts and non-dilutive funding programs. o Maintain a master reporting calendar and ensure that technical, financial, timesheet, invoice, and project information remains complete, consistent, and audit-ready.
- SR&ED Documentation o Coordinate the collection and organization of technical, financial, and project documentation required by the company’s SR&ED consultant. o Work with technical teams to capture eligible activities, technical uncertainties, experiments, design iterations, test results, labour records, and supporting evidence throughout the year.
- Project Management Software Ownership o Serve as the primary administrator of [Monday.com](http://Monday.com), including boards, dashboards, templates, automations, permissions, workflows, and reporting views. o Establish consistent project-management standards, train users, monitor data quality, and improve adoption across teams.
- Production Scale-Up and Operational Improvement o Support the transition from prototyping to mass production by coordinating production-readiness activities, supplier dependencies, resources, tooling, testing, engineering changes, and manufacturing risks. o Help implement scalable project controls, reporting processes, document management, stage-gate reviews, performance metrics, and continuous-improvement practices.
- Cross-Functional Company Support o Contribute to other operational, strategic, and administrative initiatives as company priorities evolve. o Support leadership with project analysis, internal reporting, process development, customer requests, audits, and special projects.

## What You Bring

Required

- Bachelor’s degree or diploma in engineering, business, operations, finance, project management, or a related field, with at least four years of relevant project, program, operations, or technical-administration experience.
- Strong experience with project coordination, formal reporting, spreadsheets, invoicing, timekeeping, documentation, project-management software, and confidential information.
- Excellent attention to detail, coordination with multi-disciplinary teams, and comfort with meeting tight deadlines
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to summarize relevant metrics to leadership.
- Eligibility for a Government of Canada security clearance (reliability stauts level minimum)
- Comfort operating with autonomy in an unstructured environment: you set your own priorities, manage your own calendar, and hold yourself accountable to outcomes.

## Preferred

- Project management experience in aerospace, defence, advanced manufacturing, robotics, hardware, or another regulated deep-technology sector, particularly during the transition from prototype development to production.
- Experience working in a startup, emerging technology company, or a government-contracting environment where structure was limited and initiative was essential.
- Familiarity with government funding, SR&ED, project accounting, [Monday.com](http://Monday.com), manufacturing systems, AS9100 or ISO 9001, and project-management methodologies or certifications.

## Why North Vector Dynamics

- Real ownership from day one, the pipeline you build and the relationships you develop will be foundational to how this company grows in its home market for years to come.
- We’re working on technology that matters at a national and global level, and every person on the team feels that weight and that purpose.
- A tight-knit, high-calibre team that moves fast, holds each other to a high standard, and doesn’t waste time on bureaucracy for its own sake.

## About North Vector Dynamics Inc.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: North Vector Dynamics is a Canadian defense and autonomy technology company building precision autonomous systems and counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) weapons for the future battlefield.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture-backed)
- **Headquarters**: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- **Founded**: 2022 (originally as Think Solutions Engineering; rebranded to North Vector Dynamics in 2025)
- **Founders**: Paul Ziadé (Co-founder & CEO), Dr. Craig Johansen (Co-founder & Chief Science Officer), and a third co-founder (aerospace engineers specializing in hypersonics, rocket propulsion, and high-speed aerodynamics)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Defense technology, aerospace, counter-UAS systems, hypersonics, autonomous systems
- **Target customers**: Canadian Department of National Defence (DND), allied military forces, NATO partners
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "On the battlefield, survival isn’t a feature – it’s the requirement." The company is building Canada's first full-spectrum air and missile defence company, focused on sovereign capability for Canada and its allies.

## Products & Services
- **CM-70**: A low-cost, highly-maneuverable, attritable mass, precision-guided missile designed to neutralize Group I-III drone threats. It measures 0.72m in length, weighs ~2 kg, has a range of 3.5 km, and a speed of over 1,000 km/h. Features semi-active laser homing (SALH) guidance supported by AI and a blast fragmentation warhead.
- **SHIELD**: An expeditionary counter-UAS system that uses the Arctos sensor and launch node. It can loiter for hours and deploy air-launched CUAS effects.
- **CI-60**: A next-generation expendable UAV available in two configurations: a threat simulation system (subscale aerial target for air defense training) and a CUAS vehicle designed to neutralize hostile drones with speed and agility.
- **SPIKE**: A subscale aerial target system for use by land, naval, and air forces, providing realistic, threat-representative targets for air defense qualification and live-fire training.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Backed by the Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) and venture capital firms
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Canadian Department of National Defence (DND), venture capital firms (specific names not publicly disclosed)
- **Growth Signals**: Rebranded from Think Solutions Engineering in 2025 to go all-in on air-defense development; shifting focus to the CM-70 C-UAS missile to meet growing demand; building Canada's first full-spectrum air and missile defence company; backed by DND for hypersonic and advanced interception work

## Competitive Advantages
- **Sovereign capability**: Building a Canadian-controlled technical base for counter-UAS and hypersonic interception, reducing reliance on foreign supply chains
- **Deep technical expertise**: Founders and team trained at top institutions (Waterloo, Oxford, Calgary) and organizations (NASA, Atomic Energy of Canada, national aerospace labs)
- **First-of-its-kind systems**: SHIELD is described as a first-of-its-kind expeditionary counter-UAS system
- **Attritable mass approach**: The CM-70 is a low-cost, precision-guided missile designed to invert the battlefield economics of drone warfare
- **Full-spectrum ambition**: Building toward hypersonic interception capability, positioning as Canada's first full-spectrum air and missile defence company

## Strategic Focus
- **Near-term**: Low-cost, precision-guided missile system (CM-70) for intercepting Group I-III drones and providing short-range force protection
- **Long-term**: Hypersonic interception capability for North American air defence and allied partners
- **Sovereign capability**: Building a Canadian-controlled technical base for defense technologies to reduce reliance on fragile supply chains
- **Product expansion**: Shifting focus to the CM-70 C-UAS missile to meet growing demand for counter-UAS interceptors

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven work**: Directly contributing to national defense and sovereignty for Canada and its allies
- **Deep tech focus**: Work on cutting-edge technologies including hypersonics, autonomous drone guidance, AI-driven flow control, and rocket propulsion
- **Elite team**: Colleagues include engineers and applied scientists from institutions like Waterloo, Oxford, and Calgary, with experience at NASA, Atomic Energy of Canada, and national aerospace research labs
- **Growth stage**: Recently rebranded and "all in" on air-defense development — a high-growth, high-impact environment
- **Remote-friendly**: Listed as having remote options across 27 locations, with an in-office presence in Calgary
- **Small, agile team**: Approximately 9-12 total employees, offering significant ownership and impact
- **Government backing**: Supported by Canada's Department of National Defence, providing stability and strategic importance

## Sources
1. [northvectordynamics.com](https://www.northvectordynamics.com/)
2. [northvectordynamics.com/about-us](https://www.northvectordynamics.com/about-us)
3. [northvectordynamics.com/advanced-systems](https://www.northvectordynamics.com/advanced-systems)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/north-vector-dynamics)
5. [janes.com](https://www.janes.com/defence-intelligence-insights/defence-news/industry/north-vector-dynamics-aims-to-bring-missile-production-to-canada)

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