Senior Project Manager (Subsea)

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Amsterdam, NLD
In-Office
Senior level
Hardware • Energy • Defense • Industrial
The Role
Lead multidisciplinary offshore, subsea, and marine projects from initiation through delivery. Manage scope, schedules, budgets, risks, stakeholders, customers, partners, and technical teams while ensuring successful execution. Support bids, translate technical requirements into deliverables, improve project-management processes, and capture lessons learned. The role requires relevant technical expertise, subsea or marine project experience, strong communication, and mandatory AIVD security screening.
Summary Generated by Built In

We are looking for a Senior Project Manager (Subsea) to lead multidisciplinary projects from initiation through delivery, with a strong focus on offshore, subsea or marine-related operations.

In this role, you will manage complex technical projects involving internal teams, external partners and customers. You will be responsible for keeping projects on track, managing expectations, identifying risks early and ensuring successful delivery within scope, time and budget.

This is a great opportunity for someone with a strong technical background, hands-on project management experience and exposure to offshore or subsea environments such as cable laying, geotechnical surveys, marine operations or related activities. You will join a growing scale-up environment where processes are still evolving, and where your experience can directly contribute to how we mature our project management approach.

What you’ll do:

  • Lead multidisciplinary projects from initiation through delivery, ensuring they are delivered on time, within scope and within budget.

  • Act as the main point of contact for customers, partners and internal stakeholders.

  • Manage projects related to offshore, subsea or marine operations, such as subsea cable installation, geotechnical monitoring, marine surveys or similar activities.

  • Coordinate closely with R&D, engineering, production, commercial and other internal teams to ensure successful project execution.

  • Translate technical requirements into clear project deliverables, timelines and actions.

  • Identify project risks early and implement mitigation plans to protect delivery, quality and customer expectations.

  • Monitor project progress, budget, planning, scope and key milestones.

  • Support bid development, technical discussions and customer relationship management where needed.

  • Contribute to improving project management processes, tools and ways of working in a scaling organization.

  • Capture lessons learned, share knowledge and support others in building strong project delivery practices.

What’s in it for you

  • Work on products that are deployed in real-world, high-impact environments, not just concepts or internal tools

  • Operate in a fast-growing, international scale-up where you can truly influence how projects are run.

  • Regular team activities and shared lunches throughout the week.

What we’re looking for:

  • MSc degree in Engineering, Physics, Offshore Engineering, Marine Technology or another relevant technical discipline.

  • Around 5–8 years of relevant project management experience in a technical environment.

  • Experience with offshore, subsea or marine-related projects, such as cable laying, geotechnical surveys, marine operations or similar.

  • Strong planning, budgeting, risk management and project execution skills.

  • Experience working with multidisciplinary technical teams.

  • Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate clearly with customers, partners and internal teams.

  • Technical affinity and the ability to understand complex technologies and translate them into practical project deliverables.

  • Comfortable working in a dynamic scale-up environment where priorities can shift and processes are still being developed.

  • Fluent English communication skills; Dutch is a plus.

You'll be working with clients in the defense and security sectors, obtaining a Certificate of No Objection issued by the AIVD (Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service) is mandatory. This means you will need to undergo a security screening. For more information, please refer to details on security screening. 

Skills Required

  • MSc degree in Engineering, Physics, Offshore Engineering, Marine Technology, or another relevant technical discipline
  • Around 5–8 years of relevant project management experience in a technical environment
  • Experience with offshore, subsea, or marine-related projects, such as cable laying, geotechnical surveys, or marine operations
  • Strong planning, budgeting, risk management, and project execution skills
  • Experience working with multidisciplinary technical teams
  • Strong stakeholder-management and communication skills with customers, partners, and internal teams
  • Technical affinity and ability to translate complex technologies into practical project deliverables
  • Ability to work in a dynamic scale-up environment with shifting priorities and evolving processes
  • Fluent English communication skills
  • Dutch language skills
  • Certificate of No Objection issued by the AIVD following mandatory security screening
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The Company
121 Employees
Year Founded: 2011

What We Do

Optics11 is an Amsterdam-based high-tech company that develops advanced fiber-optic sensing systems for harsh environments. Its ultra-sensitive, reliable, low-power solutions help operators detect early signs of malfunction and protect critical structures and infrastructure. The company supplies products worldwide for structural and condition monitoring, energy, rail, research and development, defense, and underwater-security applications, supporting data-driven decisions across global markets and challenging operational environments.

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