Project Manager

MASSACHUSETTS MARITIME ACADEMY; Chula Vista (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

The Project Manager role at MASSACHUSETTS MARITIME ACADEMY is the primary interface with our client’s customers, delivering world-class experience to vessel owners and their representatives. You will define and interpret scope, schedule work, and convey technical information to shipyards, trade supervisors, and subcontractors to assign labor safely and efficiently.

You will work with Contracts in costing, drafting, and executing changes, overseeing budgets and schedules, and ensuring

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a relevant field; USCG license a plus.
• 4+ years in ship repair or project management; multi-trade experience preferred.
• Experience with procurement, scheduling, and contract modifications.
• Proficiency in AutoCAD and Microsoft Project desirable.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and strong organizational skills.
• Ability to maintain confidential, meticulous records.

Responsibilities

• Assist program and construction managers in meeting project objectives and standards.
• Oversee budgets, schedules, data and report progress to stakeholders.
• Coordinate with subcontractors and vendors, aligning labor and material schedules.
• Serve as primary customer contact and deliver status updates.
• Prepare schedules, logistics info, and status reports for customers.
• Lead regular customer meetings to review scope, compliance, and risks.
• Review drawings for configuration management and task clarification.
• Administer ship repair projects including purchasing, planning, scheduling, invoicing.
• Define work package scope and modify as needed.
• Manage subcontracts and temporary labor requests.

Skills

Plan multi-trade projects

Excellent communication

Maritime project management experience

Microsoft Office Suite proficiency

Organizational skills

Record keeping

Education

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university

Associates degree + 4+ years ship repair/project management experience

Equivalent education/experience

USCG Master/Mate/Engineer license a plus

Tools

AutoCad

Microsoft Project

Job description

The Project Managers are the primary interface with our client’s customers and are empowered and expected to deliver a world-class customer experience to all the vessel owners and owners representatives involved. Overall responsibility of managing a superyacht and/or commercial vessel refit or repair project encompasses working in conjunction with the vessel owner’s rep, defining and interpreting the project work scope, scheduling and conveying technical information to boatyard trade supervisors and subcontractors for the purpose of assigning and scheduling labor to complete the work in a safe, efficient and high-quality manner. The Project Manager also works with the Contracts Department in the costing, drafting and execution of change orders.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Assist program and construction managers in managing project objectives, procedures, data collection methods, and performance standards.
• Oversee budgetary, scheduling, and project databases, and report regularly to program managers and other departments on progress.
• Manage and work closely with subcontractors, including engineering subcontractors, and vendors and coordinate deliverable, labor and material schedules.
• Acting as primary point of contact with the Customer and communicating project status updates effectively.
• Compile and submit project schedules, logistics information, and status reports to customers.
• Conduct regular meetings with customer to communicate project status, compliance with requirements, and risk assessment.
• Review engineering drawings for the purposes of configuration management, ordering materials, and communicating tasks and clarification of drawing details to supervisors.
• Administering every aspect of ship repair project including purchasing, planning and scheduling, production oversight, contractual modifications, final bill settling and invoicing.
• Determining the scope of work package to establish the contract baseline, evaluating the ability of the production department to execute the work package and recommending modifications to the scope as needed.
• Requesting, scheduling and approving all subcontracts and requests for temporary labor.

Job Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Ability to plan multi-trade, multi-task projects
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience in the maritime industry and/or project management highly desirable.
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Office Suite or related programs.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to maintain confidential and meticulous records.

Education and/or Experience

One or more of the following:

• A Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university
• An Associates degree in any technical skill associated with ship repair plus minimum 4 years of progressively more complex work experience demonstrating the required ship repair and project management skills
• An equivalent combination of education and experience comparable to the above
• USCG Master/Mate/Engineer license a plus.
• Proficient with AutoCad and Microsoft Project.
• The ability to demonstrate high proficiency in these areas.