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Project Manager

The Shipboard Project Manager manages a team of technicians for projects related to cabling infrastructure deployments onboard maritime vessels. Project Manager must maintain mission-critical and high‑visibility scope. The ideal candidate for this role has a technical leadership background in addition to a deep and modern project‑management foundation. The Shipboard Project Manager is expected to continually evolve internal development processes and procedures, effectively manage a team, and deliver projects on time and within budget in a highly diverse, dynamic, and evolving environment.

Adaptability is a must.

Working Hours: Between 50‑84 hours weekly will be required, including nights, weekends, and holidays, to be available when required.

Responsibilities, qualifications, required travel and reporting structure for this role are listed below.

• Understanding of the project approach, responsibilities, and schedule.
• Define team member roles and expectations, and ensure timely feedback. Ensure that project resources receive any necessary training and are used effectively.
• Review and be responsible for the overall development and integration of requirements.
• Measure and monitor progress at clearly defined points in the process to ensure that the project is delivered on time, within budget, and that it meets or exceeds expectations.
• Define the project iterations strategy. Manage and evaluate iterations.
• With other leads, develop, implement, and maintain the Project Plan, including configuration management, risk management, project measurement, and quality management plans.
• Ensure that all requirements, project plans, and changes to commitments are communicated to all affected team members.
• Manage relationships and coordinate work between different teams at different locations. Manage relationships with subcontractors and customers.
• Participate in quality management reviews.
• Represent the project team in IT and business meetings. Obtain buy‑in from senior management for all key project plans, commitments, and changes, including requirements, quality assurance plans, budget, schedule, and scope changes.
• Ensure that the end product fulfills the contract and meets the customers' expectations.

Approximately 100%. Travel is required for each project for actual deployments.

Project Manager will report directly to the Vice President, Mike Dowd.

• 5+ years of experience in Project Management, preferably in a technical environment (ship project experience preferred).
• Ability to work well with a wide variety of people with varying technical skill sets and business knowledge, from the very abstract to the very granular.
• Proven team leadership or project management experience.

• Strong technical shipboard infrastructure experience.
• Excellent communications (oral and written) and the ability to interface effectively with all levels of management as well as the technical team, presenting issues verbally and in written format concisely, logically, and accurately.
• Effectively coordinate communications between and among cross‑functional teams, resolve conflict, and maintain confidentiality.
• Strong problem‑solving, supervisory experience, and team leadership skills.
• Strong team player with good interpersonal and collaborative skills.
• Fosters a team environment and demonstrates the ability to promote teamwork while also working individually on each person's skill development.
• Excellent organizational, time‑management, judgment, and decision‑making skills.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks.
• Reliable, self‑motivated, and focused on high‑quality delivery of work products; willing to accept responsibility and accountability.
• Outstanding motivational, people, and task management skills.