Project System Manager

Your role in the team

• In your role as Project System Manager for the Electrical Engineering division, you assume the central responsibility for the technical and organizational management of complex electrical systems in shipbuilding.
• They coordinate international project teams, make complex technical decisions, and ensure that time, quality, and budget goals are met.
• In this role, you act as a connecting interface between internal departments, international suppliers, shipping companies, and classification societies.
• Planning, control, and monitoring of shipbuilding projects within the scope of medium- and detailed planning.
• Ensuring compliance with schedules, budgets, quality, and weight specifications, as well as initiating early corrective actions in case of deviations.
• Maintenance and further development of the project forecast for assigned areas as well as derivation of strategic and operational measures.
• Ensuring cross-ship operational readiness as well as independently coordinating and monitoring the commissioning of the systems under responsibility.
• Assessment, development, and decision-making of technical solution alternatives in close coordination with internal departments, shipping companies, and classification societies.
• Regular reporting to production and project management as well as professional communication with shipping companies, classification societies, and international stakeholders.
• Technical leadership and coordination of the project team (including site managers, foremen, system responsible personnel, procurement, and partner companies).
• Conducting negotiations with clients and international suppliers, as well as ensuring active and structured claim and change management.
• Derivation and implementation of measures to ensure the project and corporate strategy, as well as continuous optimization of processes and workflows.
• Acts as the central contact person for system inquiries from technology, clients, classes, and other project partners.

What we offer

• An interesting and diverse task in an internationally operating company.
• Flexible working hours and a team-oriented working approach as well as attractive benefits (e.g., discounted lunch and beverages, corporate fitness discounts (Hansefit), bike leasing, corporate benefits, etc.).
• With us, you work independently, contribute your own ideas to the team, and thus contribute to our shared success.
• An open and respectful corporate culture where we pursue goals together with a strong sense of unity.
• We place great importance on the compatibility of work and family life and have been jointly operating our company nursery Nautilus with flexible opening hours since 2013 in partnership with the German Red Cross.

Our expectations:

Qualifications

• Very good spoken and written English skills.
• Strong entrepreneurial mindset, decisiveness, and a structured, solution-oriented approach to work.

Experience

• Professional experience in project management of complex technical large-scale projects, ideally in shipbuilding or comparable industries.
• Experience in leading interdisciplinary and international teams as well as strong communication and moderation skills.

Education

• Completed technical qualification, e.g., as a state-certified technician, master craftsman, or technical degree (e.g., electrical engineering or mechanical engineering).

Benefits

• Flexible Working Hours