Project Manager II

About the role

This position involves directing and supervising medium to small-scale projects within the marine industry, ensuring they are completed on time and within budget. Key responsibilities include defining project plans, managing project teams, and adhering to regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Partners with business sponsors to define success metrics and criteria.
• Defines and creates project plans considering time frame, funding limitations, staffing requirements, regulations, resource availability, and customer contractual requirements.
• Acts as primary liaison between customer, project staff, subcontractors, vendors, and internal company personnel.
• Manages development of project execution strategy including planning, vessel selection, vessel modification, vendor and subcontractor support requirements, contractual requirements, Health, Safety, Security and Environmental impacts and mitigation measures.
• Directs overall Health, Safety, Security and Environmental standards for the project.
• Establishes staffing for each phase of the project, and arranges for recruitment or assignment of project team members and consultants/contractors.
• Confers with project staff to outline work plan and assign duties, responsibilities, and scope of authority; provides ongoing technical advice and problem resolution support.
• Coaches, mentors, motivates and directs project team members and contractors, and influences them to take positive action and accountability for their work to ensure project progresses on schedule and within prescribed budget.
• Supervises (including hiring, firing, evaluating, disciplining) project support staff.
• Analyzes and determines whether to perform work in-house or subcontract ("build vs. buy").
• Ensures company performance against contractual commitments with customer and ensures customer satisfaction with projects of moderate complexity and risk.
• Works with Supply Chain, sources and negotiates key subcontracts and vendors.
• Follows established processes for monitoring and integrating all project elements and communications concerning change management processes and decisions.
• Exercises project expenditure decisions up to $500,000 in value and less than 8 months in duration.
• Reviews status reports prepared by project personnel and modifies schedules or plans as required.
• Covers operational aspects of ongoing projects and serves as liaison between project teams and other parts of the organization.
• Proactively identifies dependencies between teams and ensures communications to align on project delivery criteria.
• Uses financial reporting, trend and variance analyses and other performance measures to develop/modify project plans to mitigate risk.
• Negotiates project or contract changes and incorporates changes into project control systems to maintain work statements, cost and schedule baselines.
• Ensures all projects adhere to project methodology compliance standards set by the company.
• Tracks project deliverables using appropriate tools and prepares project reports for management, customer, or others to ensure appropriate project cadence.
• Evaluates project upon close-out and documents lessons learned.
• Travels as required.
• Performs special duties and other projects as assigned.
• Adheres to all company policies.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in business, management or engineering required; minimum of 5 - 7 years' work experience in the marine industry or related field with EPC or related service company, with a minimum of four years' experience afloat as a USCG licensed deck officer / marine engineer, or similar level of experience in project management. Project management professional (PMP) certification highly desired.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of logistics, offshore marine construction or marine transportation projects is required and offshore wind experience preferred.
• Experience of ship and barge engineering, dynamic positioning (DP) systems, ballasting, stability calculations, marine operations, shipyard construction, vessel maintenance and repair.
• General knowledge of Coast Guard regulations and ABS Rules applicable to vessel operations and steel vessel construction/repair.
• Software technology platforms including Computer Aided Design (AutoCAD) and Engineering (e.g. Rhino 3D) software to develop engineering drawings and diagrams.
• Capabilities to develop, understand, interpret and analyze accounting and financial information for preparation of proposals.
• Computer proficiency, including MS Office Suite, SAP, CRM and MS Project.
• Knowledge of competitive marine industry environment and relationships between companies (vendors, customers, competitors).

Skills & Abilities

• Knowledge of the maritime industry required.
• Proven project management track record driving projects to 100% completion, on schedule and to stakeholder satisfaction.
• Experience writing and managing RFP's, scoring vendors and facilitating selection.
• Ability to communicate technical/complex information to non-technical people both verbally and in writing.
• Excellent interpersonal relationship skills to effectively interact with customers.
• Strong leadership qualities including diplomacy and ability to interface with cross-functional teams such as Finance, IT and Supply Chain.
• Comfortable creating and making presentations to all levels of the organization.
• Ability to establish and maintain cooperation, understanding, trust and credibility.
• Ability to meet budget requirements and track/contain expenses.
• Excellent time management and demonstrated ability to meet deadlines.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and organizational skills.
• Ability to work independently and accomplish work through others.

Pay

$119,962 to $179,943 annually based on experience.

Schedule

Full-time.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family.
• 15 days of vacation a year, accruing after six months of service.
• Life insurance equal to two times annual base salary.
• Accidental death and dismemberment insurance.
• Long term disability insurance.
• 401k program with a 4% match, vested immediately.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Business travel assistance program.
• Other voluntary benefits are available for purchase via payroll deduction at group rates.
• Nine (9) paid holidays with two (2) additional floating holidays available after six (6) months of service.
• Bereavement Leave - three (3) paid days off for a death in the immediate family, or five (5) days off if travel greater than 500 miles is required.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• All other benefits as required by law.