(Senior) Project Manager
What is required?
- HBO/WO or equivalent experience in naval architecture or marine/mechanical engineering
- A minimum of five years of experience as project manager for naval architectural or marine engineering projects
- Optimistic, energetic, and social personality
- Pragmatic, structured, and accurate way of working
- Ability to take initiative and work independently
- Ability to work with deadlines
- Ability to lead and motivate a team
- Ability to read and analyse planning and cost sheets
- Good commercial/contractual insight
- Excellent communication skills in English, both written, and verbal. Dutch language skills are a bonus
- Living in the Netherlands
What will you get?
- 40 hours working week
- 25 days of leave per year plus 13 days ADV based on full time employment
- Professional development opportunities
- Hybrid working options
- Company laptop and mobile phone
- Discount on company fitness
- Pension allowance in accordance with the Dutch law
- International working environment with colleagues across five countries
- Frequently company organized trips, drinks, and festivities
What will you do?
- 20% Establishing and maintaining project planning
- 20% Directing project teams
- 20% Internal consultations, including with the operations manager
- 10% Client consultation and coordination
- 20% Administration/financial and project reporting
- 10% Supporting the sales department, e.g., during contract negotiations
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Monique Reulink
HR Business Partner
Vacancy
As a (Senior) Project Manager at C-Job Naval Architects, you are responsible for the planning and execution of a variety of engineering projects, aligning with established quality standards, time frames, and budgets. The projects you manage can vary significantly, depending on the type of vessels and specific requirements. This could range from overseeing monodisciplinary projects, such as shipbuilding design or mechanical scope, to leading multidisciplinary projects that involve a concept design, basic engineering or detailed engineering scope or multiple engineering phases combined and require extensive coordination and oversight.
In the sales phase, you'll establish the project scope, schedule, approach, and budget, and assist in contract negotiations. Working with the operations manager, you'll help form the core project team, which is finalized at project commencement. Throughout the project, your primary responsibilities include managing stakeholder expectations, conducting risk analyses, maintaining the project budget and schedule, addressing potential impediments, and implementing change management, with the ultimate goal to deliver the project.. You'll also be accountable for project handover, communication, progress reporting, and final results, ensuring up-to-date project planning and successful closure.
Your role may also involve participation in sustainable Research & Development projects. These projects could encompass initiatives aimed at exploring new form factors, advancing the use of alternative, eco-friendly fuels, and promoting electric propulsion systems. This aspect allows you to contribute directly to a greener maritime industry.
As part of your role, you will collaborate with the operations manager to form and be part of one or more dedicated project teams. Your teams, each unique in its composition and size based on project requirements, will tackle a broad spectrum of projects in the offshore, yacht construction, and dredging sectors. The global reach of C-Job also means you get to collaborate with clients, subcontractors and colleagues from different offices worldwide.
If you enjoy solving both technical and commercial issues as part of a team, and you find it challenging to continuously provide structure to both a team and a client throughout a project, all while communicating in a clear and diplomatic manner, then this is the job for you.
Working week
On an enjoyable day, you'll be challenged to solve a problem within a project, in collaboration with the right stakeholders. The issues you'll encounter are both technical and commercial in nature, which makes your work very varied.
During a less enjoyable day, a project might not proceed as planned or the desired quality isn't achieved. In these instances, your responsibility is to identify the issue promptly and motivate the team to turn the project into a success.
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- Reading and replying to mails
- Project meeting
- Lunch
- Reviewing and monitoring project progress
- Solving an ad-hoc problem together with the team
- Stand up meeting
- Calling with client
- Administrative tasks and financial reporting
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- Reading and replying to mails
- Team stand up meeting
- Following up project plans and updates
- Lunch
- Assisting sales department with contract negotiations
- Reading and replying to mails
- Calling with external stakeholder
- Performing ad-hoc tasks
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- Preparing a client meeting
- Meeting with client
- Following up action points
- Lunch
- Reviewing and monitoring project progress
- Meeting with operations manager
- Reading and replying to mails
- Following up project plans and updates
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- Reading and replying to mails
- Team stand up meeting
- Following up project plans and updates
- Lunch
- Kick-off meeting new project
- Calling with client
- Administrative tasks and financial reporting
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- Working on Research & Development project
- Lunch
- Working on a project planning
- Reviewing and monitoring project progress
- Calling with client
- Reading and replying to mails
- Performing ad-hoc tasks
Firsthand experience
Growth
A project manager is advancing to a role as a senior project manager in which you also become responsible for coordinating the work of other project managers within the project team. Overall, both 'horizontal' in-depth development as well as 'vertical' development are possible in this progression.
Working at C-Job Naval Architects
C-Job Naval Architects is an independent ship design and engineering company that operates worldwide, boasting a global team of dedicated engineers, R&D consultants, supervisors, and project managers.
At C-Job, they co-create designs with their clients, incorporating their knowledge, skills, innovation, and ingenuity into each design. They have a strong track record of projects in various industries, with a focus on dredging, offshore, passenger vessels, yachts, and commercial vessels for both national and international clients.
Their dedicated Research and Development team consistently seeks new ways to improve and innovate their designs and creation processes, focusing on alternative energy sources, autonomous shipping, and data science.
- Dutch headquarters in Hoofddorp
- Active in 6 countries
- 90 employees in The Netherlands
- 200 employees worldwide
- 22% / 78%
- Average age 36 years
- Business casual
- Hybrid working is part of the C-Job way of working
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