Subsea Craft
Project Manager
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Salary: £50,000-£60,000
Full Time
Permanent
Who we are:
SubSea Craft is a fast-growing, privately-funded, UK-based innovative maritime technology company specialising in next-generation, high-performance watercraft and systems. We operate at the intersection of advanced engineering, cutting-edge design, and user-centric innovation, delivering safe, effective, and enabling solutions for both commercial and defence applications.
What we offer:
- Annual Leave – Entitlement to 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
- Wellbeing Day - An additional Wellbeing Day each year to focus on personal health and wellbeing.
- Private Healthcare – Access to comprehensive private healthcare coverage to support your physical and mental wellbeing.
- Life Assurance and Critical Illness Cover – Comprehensive protection including Life Assurance (4x salary) and Critical Illness Cover for added financial security.
- Family Leave – Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- Christmas Leave – A Christmas shutdown is typically observed.
- Professional Development – Commitment to ongoing learning and career growth, supported by training programmes and access to LinkedIn Learning.
- Pension Contribution – Pension scheme with the option to contribute via salary sacrifice
- Flexible Working – Opportunities for flexible working arrangements to promote work–life balance.
- Inclusive Culture – A professional environment that values diversity, innovation, and collaboration.
Role Overview:
We are looking for a Project Manager with a strong focus on delivery assurance within complex engineering and marine-based projects. This role is critical to ensuring that projects are delivered safely, on time, and within budget, while meeting all technical and commercial requirements. Working within a dynamic PMO, you will be responsible for managing day-to-day delivery activities, maintaining accurate project tracking, and ensuring key milestones are met. You will work closely with engineers, planners, and support functions to drive delivery performance and report on project status to key stakeholders. This is a delivery-focused role suited to someone with hands-on project management experience in marine, shipbuilding, engineering, or defence-related environments.
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Responsibilities will include:
- Lead the planning and delivery of assigned projects, ensuring performance against scope, schedule, and budget.
- Maintain accurate project tracking and reporting tools, producing clear and timely updates on progress, risks, and resource requirements.
- Identify delivery risks and issues early and support mitigation planning and recovery actions in collaboration with delivery teams.
- Coordinate activities across engineering, production, and support functions to maintain momentum and remove blockers to progress.
- Support the implementation of project controls, including schedule management, cost tracking, and risk reporting.
- Work with project controls and planning teams to ensure accurate resource forecasting and schedule integrity.
- Engage with stakeholders to ensure clear communication and alignment on delivery objectives.
Qualifications and Experience:
Required:
- Proven experience managing delivery within engineering, marine, shipbuilding, or defence project environments.
- Strong understanding of project scheduling, cost tracking, and reporting processes.
- Proficiency with project tools such as MS Project, Jira, or equivalent, and familiarity with reporting tools like Power BI.
- Confident communicator with good stakeholder engagement and coordination skills.
Desirable:
- Recognised project management qualification (e.g., APM PMQ, PRINCE2, PMP).
- Familiarity with ERP systems and their role in project execution and reporting.
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Note: Due to the nature of work undertaken at SubSea Craft, the selected candidate must be capable of meeting the security requirements of the position, which would include as a minimum existing right to live and work in the UK, Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), with UK National security clearance required for certain roles.*
Values:
Our people are our greatest asset, we continually strive to provide an excellent working environment to enable our team to do their best work. We have an agile professional workforce: we are founded on the belief that our people are valued and our business is trusted, inclusive and commercially-adept.
What we expect from you:
- Teamwork, mutual respect and collaboration
- Initiative and independent working
- Honesty and integrity
- Business and commercial awareness
- Agility, adaptability and continuous development
We are committed to building an inclusive, diverse workplace where everyone can thrive. If you require any support or adjustments to interact with us, please let us know.
*Please note that all offers of employment are conditional and subject to satisfactory DBS, driving licence and reference checks. A criminal record will not automatically disqualify candidates from employment. We will consider criminal record information alongside the wider range of evidence gathered at the application, interview, and pre-employment checking stages.
Due to the high volume of applications, we are unable to respond to everyone. If you are shortlisted, we will aim to contact you within 14 days of your application or the closing date (if stated). We may retain your details for future suitable roles unless you advise us otherwise.
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