Project Manager - Marine

Project Manager - Marine, shipbuilding, or offshore experience

Location: Southampton – hybrid, 3 days per week on-site
£45-60K depending on experience, plus excellent benefits package

Our client is a fast-growing maritime technology business at the forefront of sustainable shipping.

This is an excellent opportunity for a Project Manager to join a growing business and help deliver projects from concept through to installation and operation. It is well suited to someone with a few years of relevant experience who brings strong technical understanding, good stakeholder and relationship management skills, and the potential to grow with the business.

This is not a traditional reporting role. The focus is on driving delivery, coordinating work across engineers, suppliers, and shipyards, and ensuring projects are delivered on time and on budget.

Key Requirements

You will be degree or technically qualified in engineering, marine, manufacturing, or a similar field, with relevant experience in project management, project coordination, engineering, or a manufacturing environment. You will also bring:

• Strong technical understanding and the ability to work credibly with engineering teams
• Good stakeholder management and strong relationship-building skills
• Proven ability to help deliver projects on time and on budget
• Strong organisational ability and structured thinking
• Clear written and verbal communication
• Confidence coordinating multiple stakeholders
• A proactive approach and comfort taking ownership of tasks
• Ability to create structure where none exists
• Comfort working with engineers, suppliers, and shipyards
• Ability to turn complex discussions into clear actions
• A pragmatic, solution-focused mindset
• Shipping knowledge would be of significant advantage

Desirable experience includes:

• Marine, shipbuilding, or offshore experience
• Exposure to manufacturing or fabrication environments
• Familiarity with project tools
• Experience in a start-up or fast-growth business

Role & Responsibilities

As Project Manager, you will help ensure projects move forward at pace, with clear actions, strong coordination, and effective communication across all stakeholders, while maintaining focus on time, cost, and delivery. Responsibilities will include:

Build simple, practical project plans from initial concepts

Coordinate engineering, suppliers, and internal teams to deliver milestones

Maintain clear task lists and ensure actions are closed quickly

Identify risks early and escalate issues where needed

Help ensure projects progress and take initiative on direction

Prepare timelines, budgets, and progress updates

Maintain project documentation and reporting

Coordinate subcontract manufacturers, support providers, and suppliers

Track progress and delivery across multiple workstreams

Coordinate logistics, documentation, and supplier readiness

Resolve delivery issues and communicate clearly with suppliers

Attend technical project discussions and capture decisions and actions

Help improve project delivery processes as the company grows

Why Join?
A rare opportunity to join a business developing real-world clean technology for the global shipping market. You will benefit from:

• Working on real engineering and operational challenges across shipyards, factories, and vessels
• Broad exposure across engineering, manufacturing, procurement, and deployment
• High levels of ownership and responsibility within a growing business
• The opportunity to help scale an innovative clean technology company
• A strong pathway into senior project delivery, programme management, or operations leadership as the company grows