Project Manager - Maritime

Are you looking to be part of a growing team with the opportunity for growth or your next career step? Do you have a true passion to align business growth ambitions with the external world? This role will provide you the opportunity to drive our business agenda with a key focus on defence facilities.

Following continued success within the London region, Royal HaskoningDHV look to expand upon their current Liverpool team through the growth of the maritime business. Liverpool offers an exciting opportunity for maritime engineers of all fields within a sought-after region of the U.K. offering excellent work life balance.

About Royal HaskoningDHV:

Royal HaskoningDHV has been connecting people for 140 years. Together, through our expertise and passion, we have helped contribute to a better society and improved people's lives with work underpinned by our sustainable values and goals. We are an independent international engineering and project management consultancy leading the way in sustainable development and innovation.

Royal HaskoningDHV is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We have the clear goal of driving diversity and inclusion across all dimensions. Together, we are embarking on a journey where each and every one of us, individually and collectively, welcomes and celebrates individual differences. We recognise that embracing diversity unlocks innovation and creativity and fosters collaboration. We want our employees to reflect the diversity of our communities and the customers we serve.

About our Maritime business:

Our Maritime team are at the forefront of innovative maritime planning, design, and development. We are multi-disciplinary experts that work on international projects to create successful ports and maritime infrastructure worldwide. We have provided expert commercial, technical and operational advice and created master plans across the five continents for a wide range of port projects.

We are one of the largest and most experienced teams of port professionals globally operating from our Maritime offices in Edinburgh, Exeter, Newcastle, Liverpool, London, and Brighton.

Role context:

The role will focus on the project design management and delivery of medium to large single or multi-disciplinary projects. This will require someone with the ability to lead the team and to deliver quality, robust deliverables on time and within budget. This role will provide great exposure to local and global projects alike, whilst working with the leading professionals within the Maritime sector.

• To manage medium / large projects and deliver successful results.


• To develop and deliver good practice in project and design management.


• Liaison and co-ordination with other Project Managers and Project Teams.


• Business development support including leading bids and proposals.


• Project Design Management, achieving profitable results on programme.


• Ensure compliance with internal procedures.


• Design manage documentation to support the delivery of designs (project management plan, programme, RFI register, risk and opportunities register etc.).


• Managing commercial aspects of projects, including proactive change control procedures and maintaining project finances.


• Develop and implement good techniques/systems for project management.


• Ensure that design reviews are held for projects.


• Lead the preparation of bids and proposals where required.


• To monitor delivery against the Client brief and produce design reports, design programmes, deliverables registers, reporting internally and to the Client.


• To deliver medium to large multi-disciplinary design projects for Clients ensuring excellent technical delivery against the brief according to the RHDHV Management Systems.


• To manage and co-ordinate internal design resource, facilitate design meetings with both internal and external designers.


• To ensure commercial control over design projects involving setting of project budgets, allocating fee targets, monitoring fee spend, carrying out change control to achieve profitable results.


• To act as key interface with Clients on allocated projects, understanding and seeking out opportunities.


• Provide guidance to more junior staff including project managers, engineers, graduates, technicians, and admin staff working on your projects.


• Your technical and commercial experience, and liaison with multi-disciplinary teams will be vital to the success of the projects you work on.


Required skills and experience:


• Communication Skills - clearly articulate orally and in writing the reasons behind your decisions. Show confidence in presenting to team members, clients and stakeholders.


• Client Orientation - maintain a professional client-facing approach.


• Problem Solving - think laterally and develop solutions to problems with others and on your own.


• Relationship Building - build a network within the immediate team, and the wider organization as a trusted advisor to our clients.


• Solution Orientation - deliver project objectives without losing focus in the detail.


• Organised - show organisation, discipline, and a structured, consistent approach in the way you work.


• Personable - approachable, relatable, and empathetic.


Ideal:

• Demonstrate experience in the development of port and shipyard infrastructure, such as heavy-duty quays, dry docks, floating structures, shiplifts, moving structures.


Note: Even if you feel you do not meet all the role requirements described above, please still apply. We value applications from a range of backgrounds - so please highlight additional skills you could bring to the role.

What we can offer you:

Ambitious. Exciting. Lively. Collaborative. Dynamic. That's how our colleagues describe our company. Want to contribute to enhancing society with your expertise? Be part of an open network where you're connected with the brightest and smartest people and technologies? Join us!

You can look forward to growing your career in a dynamic workplace with development opportunities and support on your career path. We have flexible working models to ensure a balance of family and working life.

Location:

Liverpool


• Communication Skills - clearly articulate orally and in writing the reasons behind your decisions. Show confidence in presenting to team members, clients and stakeholders.


• Client Orientation - maintain a professional client-facing approach.


• Problem Solving - think laterally and develop solutions to problems with others and on your own.


• Relationship Building - build a network within the immediate team, and the wider organization as a trusted advisor to our clients.


• Solution Orientation - deliver project objectives without losing focus in the detail.


• Organised - show organisation, discipline, and a structured, consistent approach in the way you work.


• Personable - approachable, relatable, and empathetic.


Ideal:

• Demonstrate experience in the development of port and shipyard infrastructure, such as heavy-duty quays, dry docks, floating structures, shiplifts, moving structures.
  
  Are you looking to be part of a growing team with the opportunity for growth or your next career step? Do you have a true passion to align business growth ambitions with the external world? This role will provide you the opportunity to drive our business agenda with a key focus on defence facilities.


Following continued success within the London region, Royal HaskoningDHV look to expand upon their current Liverpool team through the growth of the maritime business. Liverpool offers an exciting opportunity for maritime engineers of all fields within a sought-after region of the U.K. offering excellent work life balance.

About Royal HaskoningDHV:

Royal HaskoningDHV has been connecting people for 140 years. Together, through our expertise and passion, we have helped contribute to a better society and improved people's lives with work underpinned by our sustainable values and goals. We are an independent international engineering and project management consultancy leading the way in sustainable development and innovation.

Royal HaskoningDHV is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We have the clear goal of driving diversity and inclusion across all dimensions. Together, we are embarking on a journey where each and every one of us, individually and collectively, welcomes and celebrates individual differences. We recognise that embracing diversity unlocks innovation and creativity and fosters collaboration. We want our employees to reflect the diversity of our communities and the customers we serve.

About our Maritime business:

Our Maritime team are at the forefront of innovative maritime planning, design, and development. We are multi-disciplinary experts that work on international projects to create successful ports and maritime infrastructure worldwide. We have provided expert commercial, technical and operational advice and created master plans across the five continents for a wide range of port projects.

We are one of the largest and most experienced teams of port professionals globally operating from our Maritime offices in Edinburgh, Exeter, Newcastle, Liverpool, London, and Brighton.