DP World
Project Manager - Offshore Services
- Permanent
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 2 - 5 yrs
Job expiry date: 10/10/2026
Job overview
Date posted
26/08/2026
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Salary
AED 20,000 - 30,000 per month
Compensation
Comprehensive package
Experience
2 - 5 yrs
Seniority
Manager
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
10/10/2026
Job description
In this role you will be based at DP World's Corporate Office in Dubai, UAE, though the role demands global travel, which may be required at short notice and can involve extended periods overseas of potentially up to 3 to 6 months or more during intense shipyard and project execution phases. You will be measured against on-time project delivery, ensuring successful project execution and handover within established timelines and critical paths. You are responsible for on-budget financial control, managing project costs strictly within authorized baseline budgets and managed contingencies. Your responsibilities include ensuring quality of project planning, covering the accuracy, depth, and completeness of schedules, budgets, and project execution plans. You will maintain strict adherence to maritime HSSEQ regulations and company operational standards across all project phases. In this role you will be responsible for reporting excellence, delivering high-quality, timely, and complete progress, variation, and financial reporting for stakeholders.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Ensure successful project execution and handover within established timelines and critical paths
- Manage project costs strictly within authorized baseline budgets and managed contingencies
- Develop accurate, in-depth, and complete schedules, budgets, and project execution plans
- Ensure strict adherence to maritime HSSEQ regulations and company operational standards across all project phases
- Prepare high-quality, timely, and complete progress, variation, and financial reporting for stakeholders
- Coordinate with shipyards, contractors, and vendors during project mobilization and execution
- Monitor project risks and deviations from plan, escalating and addressing issues as they arise
- Travel globally as required, including extended overseas assignments during shipyard and project execution phases
- Maintain close, on-site presence during intense execution phases to oversee day-to-day project delivery
Experience & skills
- Hold a Bachelor's Degree
- Be willing and able to travel globally at short notice, including extended overseas periods of potentially up to 3 to 6 months or more, reflecting the demands of shipyard-based project execution
- Show the ability to manage project schedules and budgets with precision, given the role's KPIs around on-time delivery and on-budget financial control
- Demonstrate strong project planning capability, including developing detailed and accurate schedules and execution plans ahead of project mobilization
- Show familiarity with maritime HSSEQ regulations and standards, since strict compliance across all project phases is a stated KPI for this role
- Demonstrate strong reporting discipline, with the ability to produce timely, complete, and accurate progress, variation, and financial reports for stakeholders
- Show resilience and adaptability suited to extended overseas assignments and fast-paced shipyard project environments
- Demonstrate the ability to manage contingencies and financial control under pressure, particularly during intense project execution phases