Director of Project Management
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Reporting to: Executive Leadership
Level: Director / Senior Management
Role Overview
The PMO Controller / Director of Project Management is a senior leadership role responsible for overseeing the delivery of all marine projects from a portfolio, planning, and coordination standpoint. Rather than replacing on-site project management, this position functions as a central control hub-ensuring projects are correctly resourced, sequenced, and aligned across all departments.
Acting as a strategic partner to executive leadership, this role provides end-to-end visibility across the project portfolio, proactively identifying risks, constraints, and misalignments before they impact delivery, cost, or customer experience.
Key Responsibilities
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Provide portfolio-level oversight of all active marine projects, with primary ownership of resource planning, scheduling, and project sequencing.
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Allocate and balance installation management resources across multiple projects to ensure optimal coverage and efficiency.
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Develop, own, and continuously maintain the master project schedule, adapting to evolving client demands and internal capacity constraints.
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Identify potential scheduling conflicts, resource shortages, or execution risks and escalate proactively to leadership.
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Act as a central coordination layer between project management, installation teams, production, design, logistics, and finance.
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Ensure project milestones are clearly communicated to finance to enable timely and accurate invoicing.
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Oversee coordination with outsourced labor partners, participating in alignment calls as needed to ensure PMO standards are met (tools, uniforms, travel readiness, and documentation).
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Support and dispatch on-site project managers, ensuring they are fully equipped and positioned for successful execution.
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Establish and maintain consistent PMO standards, processes, and best practices across all European marine projects.
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Uphold core values and a commitment to operational excellence, with a strong customer-first mindset and focus on continuous improvement.
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Collaborate closely with internal and external production, account management, and design teams to ensure installations meet technical standards and project objectives.
Qualifications & Experience
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5+ years of experience in project management, PMO leadership, or operations within marine, construction, or complex installation environments.
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Proven experience managing multi-project portfolios with competing priorities, timelines, and shared resources.
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Strong organizational, planning, and communication skills, with the ability to operate at both operational and executive levels.
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Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally in fast-paced, delivery-driven environments.
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Experience managing outsourced labor partners and international teams is highly desirable.
Darwin Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
Kieran Mead