Project Manager Uncrewed Solutions - Marine

Projects# Project Manager Uncrewed Solutions - Marine Location+ Houston, Texas, United States
** Job Description
** MAI and MSC Uncrewed Solutions focuses on growing and commercializing Fugro’s uncrewed marine inspection and asset integrity services in the Americas by aligning advanced USV technologies with client needs, operational delivery, and scalable offshore business models.

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** Project Manager Uncrewed Solutions
** supports the delivery of a growing portfolio of uncrewed solutions initiatives across the region. The role is responsible for managing projects and work packages across multiple programs, including first‐of‐kind deployments, new asset integration, and R&D work streams.
** Key Programs & Initiatives:
** This role will support projects and work packages across initiatives such as (but not limited to):
• Blue Amp eROV deployment
• Blue Prism (first geophysical USV implementation in the Americas)
• Blue Evolution program
• DWUSV and other uncrewed R&D work streams
• Shallow Water USV program
• Future uncrewed subsea and surface solutions initiatives
** Job Responsibilities
*** Lead by example and place Quality, Health & Safety, Security, and the protection of the Environment as core values while never intentionally placing employees, our processes, customers, or the communities in which we live and work at risk.
* Lead end‐to‐end management of assigned projects and work packages within uncrewed solutions programs, including receipt of USVs into the region and transition from delivery to first operations.
* Develop, maintain, and control core project documentation, including Project Execution Plans, risk assessments, and change records, ensuring alignment with approved scope, schedule, and budget.
* Manage project start‐up and close‐out activities, including internal briefings, client kick‐off meetings, acceptance of deliverables, lessons learned, and final financial settlement.
* Plan, execute, monitor, and close project scopes, supporting first‐of‐kind operational deployments and ensuring readiness across people, processes, and technology.
* Control project expenditures and procurement of equipment and materials, providing accurate and timely reporting on financial, schedule, and QHSSE performance.
* Maintain effective internal and external client relationships and collaborate with commercial teams to ensure USV tendering aligns with capabilities, timelines, resources, and approved rate structures.
* Apply company project governance frameworks, standards, and best practices across all assigned work.
* Establish and maintain project schedules, budgets, risk and opportunity registers, and formal change control processes.
* Proactively identify, manage, and escalate risks and opportunities to support informed decision‐making and delivery assurance.
* Support service line project teams with specialist USV knowledge, ensuring successful integration of the USV platform within wider projects.
* Provide functional oversight of project management activities within the Uncrewed Solutions Group’s sphere of influence, recognising regional and service‐line variations.
* Coordinate standardisation initiatives and share best practices, tools, and resources across service lines in collaboration with the Operational Excellence organisation.
* Build strong relationships with regional and business‐line project management peers to drive consistent adoption of best‐practice delivery processes.
* Advise on the resolution of significant project risks and contribute to the development, improvement, and compliance of project management procedures related to uncrewed solutions.
* Demonstrate visible leadership and genuine management commitment to strengthening the safety culture, with a focus on ensuring new technologies and developments reduce HSSE risk.
* Ensure all personnel involved in implementation, trials, and pilots comply with Fugro values, the Code of Conduct, and Life‐Saving Rules, maintaining a safe and healthy working environment.
* Deliver assigned projects and work packages within approved EBIT targets through effective cost control, risk management, and execution discipline.
* Establish and maintain auditable…