On behalf of a retained client in Dubai/UAE, we are urgently looking for an exceptional and experienced Senior Project Manager to join the team of a rapidly growing shipyard facility.
Start date - ASAP
Salary - very competitive including benefits package
Position Summary:
The ideal candidate will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and implementing large super-yacht refit projects within agreed budgets, timelines, and scope of work. The appointed Senior Project Manager will also effectively monitor and present project updates to relevant stakeholders. As a senior figure within the team and facility, the appointed candidate will have significant input to the strategic direction and growth of the facility, this to include order book and pipeline management.
The Senior Project Manager will plan, direct, coordinate, monitor budget, track performance, negotiate changes, and report activity to senior management, with regard to activities associated with the overhaul or repair and refit of superyachts, ships and/or other marine vessels. Project organisation, scheduling, problem identification, customer interface and plan implementation are key responsibilities of this position.
The Senior Project Manager will report directly to the Director of Operations but will have regular contact with various stakeholders to include senior management and executive leadership. This position holds responsibility for managing the entire profit & loss for single, multiple, and/or large and complex projects, private and commercial, for projects which will carry value.
Please note that this position may require work hours beyond a standard work week to support business operations.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Develop refit implementation plans.
- Track, estimate, compile, submit, and work with all departments in negotiating any change to contracts and document concerns in formal correspondence, including dispute/issue resolutions.
- Recognise potential problems early, recommend solutions, and recommend/implement corrective actions.
- Work with and provide oversight to fellow project managers on assigned projects.
- Collaborate with wider shipyard team in order to develop metrics and reports.
- Confer with senior team, owners, contractors, and design professionals to discuss and resolve matters such as work procedures, complaints, and refit problems.
- Interpret specifications and contract requirements and explain plans and contract terms to administrative staff, workers, and clients.
- Assist in performing job cost projections / monitor cost, schedule and quality of the project(s) and immediately report any issues that would affect cost or schedule performance.
- Monitor, coordinate, and manage the required reports and required documentation submittals for each contract, to include but not limited to contract completion certifications, and lessons learned.
- Creates, maintains, and analyses budgets, records, logs, and production schedules to ensure work is accomplished within budget and on time.
Position will also:
- Coordinate with supervision, Ops Manager, Production Manager, QA, and Safety to ensure that planning requirements are established and met and allocate project resources efficiently.
- Ensure project supervisors develop daily and weekly plans consistent with overall project schedules.
- Coordinate with supervision and subcontractors to ensure that schedule conflicts do not arise between different trades.
- Review and submit all condition reports to senior leadership team, advising of cost and schedule impacts.
- Detailed oversight of all contract changes following negotiations.
- Facilitate daily production meetings with Superintendents, Supervisors, QA, and Safety to ensure that all aspects of projects are being planned and executed in a safe and productive manner.
- Other duties may be assigned as workload dictates.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in business preferred, engineering or related field or at least seven (7) years’ experience either in a shipyard facility or aboard a large superyacht program in a very senior capacity.
- Must have a working knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint and Microsoft Word, Outlook and Teams.
- Must be familiar with detailed project management protocols.
- Must be familiar with cost and schedule performance metrics.
- Must have effective negotiation, problem solving and decision-making skills leveraged with excellent communications skills, both verbal and written.
- Must be able to develop a vision for the future and create a culture in which the long-range goals can be achieved.
- Must have proven ability to drive improved cost and schedule performance with ability to manage risks and opportunities.
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