Senior Manager, Projects, Shipbuilding

ST Engineering Marine Ltd; Pioneer (OH); On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

ST Engineering Marine Ltd is seeking a project leadership professional to plan and execute contracts for new-build shipbuilding. The role requires coordinating with stakeholders across disciplines, aligning business and sponsor priorities, and guiding a project team to safe, on-time, within-budget delivery.

The position emphasizes managing risks, defining scope and resources, and maintaining detailed delivery plans to ensure project success in a dynamic maritime environment.

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex contracts or programmes in shipbuilding or heavy industry.
• Strong ability to manage stakeholders across multi-disciplinary teams.
• Proven risk management, contingency planning and delivery execution.

Responsibilities

• Lead and drive planning and execution of contracts for new-build shipbuilding.
• Set up projects for success by applying PM processes and standards and ensuring delivery excellence.
• Deliver safe, timely, within budget and high-quality outcomes.
• Actively engage stakeholders throughout the project life cycle for alignment between business, sponsor and delivery teams.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to the project team.
• Pre-empt project risks and plan contingencies using experienced problem-solving.
• Clearly define scope, outcomes, resources, timelines and budget constraints.
• Develop detailed resource-based project plans showing dependencies and delivery roles; monitor and update regularly.
• Drive cross-functional teams to deliver to plan and budget; assess risks and opportunities.
• Track progress against plan and budget; manage scope through change control.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Budget planning

Tools

MS Project

Job description

Company description:

ST Engineering's Marine business provides integrated shipbuilding, ship repair and ship conversion services. With a proven track record spanning over five decades, we have designed and built vessels for commercial and defence customers worldwide. Expanding on our core competencies, ST Engineering's Marine business also provides maintenance, repair and conversion services.

We are committed to embracing digitalisation to being the shipyard of the future, harnessing innovative smart manufacturing technologies to improve our efficiencies. Leveraging our established expertise, ST Engineering's Marine business is committed to remain a trusted solution partner for our customers.

Job description:

Job Description:

To lead and drive the planning and execution of contracts for new-build shipbuilding

• Setting up the project or programme up for success by following the Project/Programme Management processes and standards and ensuring delivery excellence in all aspects.
• Delivering project key outcomes; Safely, timely, within budget and good quality.
• Actively engaging stakeholders throughout the Project life cycle ensuring alignment between the business, the project sponsor, the stakeholders and the delivery team(s).
• Overall responsibility of the project team - to provide mentorship and guidance

Responsibilities

• Leveraging on experience to pre-empt project risk and plan for contingencies.
• Utilizing problem solving skills to formulate solutions for business problems and value drivers,
• To clearly define scope and business outcomes, determine delivery approach with required resources, timeline assessment and within budget constraints.
• Proper planning of detailed resource-based project plans which show dependencies and defined delivery roles. To also continuously monitor and update the plan accordingly.
• Delivery- assess the risks, feasibility, opportunities, and business impacts of various solution options and motivate and drive a cross functional team (internal and external) to deliver to plan and budget.
• Tracking- track project progress against plan and budget, manage project scope through a change control process.