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About Damen Services
Damen Services supports customers worldwide with maintenance, repair, and lifecycle services for Damen vessels and maritime solutions. With a global network of service hubs and partners, Damen delivers reliable, efficient, and high-quality services throughout the vessel lifecycle.
The Service Hub Middle East plays a key role in supporting regional operations and driving operational excellence across projects and service delivery.
The (Senior) Project Manager / Team Lead Operations combines hands-on project execution with operational team leadership.
In this hybrid role, the individual is responsible for:
• Successfully delivering one or more projects (direct contribution), and
• Supporting the Service Hub Manager in leading and developing the
Operations team.
The role requires a strong balance between execution, leadership, and operational oversight, ensuring both project performance and team effectiveness.
Key Responsibilities
1. Project Management (Primary Responsibility)
• Lead and deliver multiple service and/or repair projects within scope, budget, and schedule
• Act as primary point of contact for clients and internal stakeholders
• Ensure effective planning, procurement, logistics, and execution coordination
• Manage project risks and ensure timely escalation where required
• Maintain commercial control, including cost tracking and margin protection
• Ensure compliance with Damen processes, HSEQ standards, and contractual obligations
2. Team Lead Operations (Part-time Role)
Supporting the Service Hub Manager, the role includes:
Team Leadership
• Act as team lead for the Operations team (Project Managers and Project Engineers)
• Provide day-to-day guidance and ensure alignment across operational activities
Team Development
• Drive continuous development of the Operations team (skills, knowledge, and leadership capabilities)
• Coach team members on project execution, stakeholder management, and ownership
Capacity & Resource Planning
• Manage and optimize capacity planning across the Operations team
• Ensure efficient allocation of resources across projects and priorities
Operational Execution & Cadence
• Support daily and weekly operational rhythm (meetings, follow-ups, action tracking)
• Ensure actions are clearly defined, monitored, and closed
Escalation & Governance
• Act as first-line escalation point for operational issues within Area 3
• Ensure adherence to operational governance, processes, and reporting standards
Requirements
• Minimum 5–10 years of experience in project management within maritime, offshore, or technical services
• Proven track record in delivering complex service or repair projects
• Experience in leading teams or acting in a coordination/lead role
Skills & Competencies
• Strong project management and organizational skills
• Leadership capability with a hands-on, pragmatic approach
• Ability to balance operational oversight with direct project execution
• Strong stakeholder management (internal and external)
• Commercial awareness and cost control mindset
• Structured, process-driven, and solution-oriented
Education
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Maritime, or related field
What Damen Offers
• A challenging hybrid role combining execution and leadership
• International working environment within a global maritime organization
• Opportunities for professional and leadership development
• Exposure to complex and high-impact projects
• A collaborative, entrepreneurial, and performance-driven culture
Interested in joining Damen and contributing to operational excellence in the Middle East? Apply via the Damen careers platform.
Recruiter:
Iulia Cristiana Vilcu Alecu
Email:
iulia.vilcu@damen.com
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Oceans, seas, lakes and rivers offer growing possibilities in the areas of trade, food, energy and recreation. To ensure global prosperity for next generations and keep the earth habitable with an ever-increasing population, it is essential to utilise and protect these possibilities as efficiently and responsibly as possible.
Damen provides unprecedented maritime solutions for this, through design, shipbuilding, ship repair and related services. We offer versatile platforms that enable our customers to be successful and that raise the standard in terms of safety, reliability, efficiency and sustainability. We want to become the most sustainable shipbuilders in the world.
In the previous century, we revolutionized shipbuilding. Thanks to standardisation, we were able to supply our customers with better ships, faster. More than 90 years and 6,500 ships later, the importance of standardisation is only increasing in the light of zero-emissions and digitalisation.
We do not build our ships alone, but together with an extensive network from the international maritime cluster. We firmly believe in the power of sharing. It means that we also use our craftsmanship to build platforms on production facilities that are not ours. In this way, through knowledge transfer, we not only contribute to better, safer and more eco-friendly ships, but also to sustainable local development and prosperity.
We are a family owned business and stand for fellowship, craftsmanship, entrepreneurship and stewardship. Our playing field is the world. Our horizon is the long term. We firmly believe in our team, but also in the strength of the individual. Each colleague is an entrepreneur, focused on ensuring truly satisfied clients and making our contribution to a better world. In every aspect of our business the next generation is our starting point.
