Operational Manager Marine Civil

Objective of the role  

As an Operational Manager at TWD, you are responsible for managing and delivering projects successfully while fostering the development and growth of your team members. Your role involves overseeing project reviews, ensuring the quality of deliverables, managing team dynamics, and promoting collaboration and cooperation across teams. With both managerial and organizational responsibilities, you focus on team management, project quality, and continuous development.  You report to the Commercial manager, together you are responsible for the growth target of the team. 

In the managerial aspect of your role, you supervise project reviews and manage the team by defining team structures, translating group strategies into team goals, reporting project status, and creating a positive working environment. You monitor team members’ well-being, ensuring a balance between productivity and job satisfaction. Additionally, you support the development of team members by recognizing their strengths and helping them grow through coaching, project assignments, and performance evaluations.  

You contribute to business development by monitoring client satisfaction, identifying sales opportunities within projects, and guiding the team in writing quotations and executing ‘on-the-job sales.’ Through your leadership, you create a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the organization.  

 
Jointly with the commercial manager, you are responsible for the short-, mid- and long-term growth of the department. You understand the competencies of your team and take the initiative to develop the team to be able to deliver. To do so, you will support and direct the team in the following responsibilities. 

Responsibilities   

Projects:  

• Ensuring good project management: good quality project management and execution.  

• Making sure that the project deliverables meet the required quality standards.  

• Supervision of Project Responsible, overseeing project reviews, and performing quality checks.  

People & Team Management:   

• Managing the team effectively  

• Translate the group strategy into team goals (together with EM) and make sure the team is pursuing these goals.    

• Inspiring team members: motivating and inspiring the team.  

• Give responsibilities and tasks to individual team members, aligned with their strengths and development.  

• Development of team members: helping team members grow, help develop their skills.  

• Collaboration between teams: promoting teamwork and cooperation between different teams.  

Sales / Business Development in projects:   

• Involvement in sales activities related to projects.  

Developing yourself:   

• Continuously improve your skills and knowledge.  

Qualifications (education and technical knowledge/expertise)  

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a technical field, including but not limited to Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Aerospace Engineering  

Competences & Professional Abilities  

Project Management:   

• Strong organizational skills to manage multiple projects effectively.  

• Problem-solving and critical-thinking skills for technical and strategic challenges.  

• Decision-making abilities to balance technical, team, and client priorities. Takes action readily when a sudden problem emerges.  

• Stress & Energy management to manage workloads and meet deadlines  

• Proactiveness, anticipating potential issues and opportunities rather than reacting to them.  

Focus on Quality & Execution:   

• Sets high-quality standards and deliverables  

• Encourages and stimulates others to enhance the quality of their work, and strives for continuous improvement and quality assurance.  

• Risk Management: Identifies potential risks in projects and discusses them with Engineering Managers/Project responsibilities or other stakeholders.  

People Leadership   

• People management skills:  

• Provide direction and guidance to the team and encourage cooperation between team members and cross-functional cooperation.  

• Empathy and understanding individual team members' strengths and motivations needs, motivation, stress levels, and expectations.   

• Support and develop team members, including coaching on-the-job and mentoring abilities to guide team members in their growth. Provides feedback on team member performance.   

• Resilience; staying motivated and keeping the team focused during pick activity.  

Delegation skills:  

• The ability to assign responsibilities and authority to the right team members, taking their interests, ambitions, development, and competency into account and following up on delegated tasks.  

Business Development & Client Engagement  

• Commercial awareness:  

• Recognize sales opportunities in projects and guide sales efforts.  

• Looking at the tenders and management of the process to success 

• Ensure client satisfaction and long-term relationships.  

• Strategic thinking to align engineering efforts with business growth.  

TWD – A Fun Challenge to Be Part Of
At TWD, we love to create construction methods and design installation equipment. We achieve creative, simple, and efficient solutions through dedicated teamwork. Thanks to our core values – Fun, Development, and Happy Clients – we grow at a rapid pace with over 300 talented people in five locations: Rotterdam, London, Athens, Taipei, and Perth.

Every day we contribute to the energy transition and key infrastructure projects worldwide. We do this by offering innovative design solutions to our clients, mainly in the offshore wind and heavy civils industry.

Why You Will Love Working at TWD
TWD offers a collaborative and supportive working environment that will stimulate you to take the lead in your professional and personal development. Our people describe TWD's culture as open, no-nonsense, diverse, and informal - valuing your ideas and contributions.

Working at TWD includes:

• 8% holiday allowance per year

• Collective pension

• Monthly travel allowance

• 25 holidays per year and compensation for overtime

• A free healthy and sustainable lunch buffet prepared daily in our Lunchroom

• An exciting company trip each year where TWD offices come together

• Friday afternoon drinks and special TWD events such as sports events, pub quizzes, ladies’ night, and various social gatherings

Join Our Team!
Do you have what it takes to join our team? We are happy to meet you! Submit your CV and motivation letter through the apply button. We will get in touch with you within one working week.

At TWD, we celebrate diversity and inclusivity, welcoming individuals from all backgrounds. We continuously work on enhancing our recruitment process, ensuring fairness and inclusiveness at every step.