Key Programs & Initiatives: This role will support projects and work packages across initiatives such as (but not limited to):
- Blue Amp eROV deployment
- Blue Prism (first geophysical USV implementation in the Americas)
- Blue Evolution program
- DWUSV and other uncrewed R&D workstreams
- Shallow Water USV program
- Future uncrewed subsea and surface solutions initiatives
Job Responsibilities
- Lead by example and place Quality, Health & Safety, Security, and the protection of the Environment as core values while never intentionally placing employees, our processes, customers, or the communities in which we live and work at risk.
- Lead end‑to‑end management of assigned projects and work packages within uncrewed solutions programs, including receipt of USVs into the region and transition from delivery to first operations.
- Develop, maintain, and control core project documentation, including Project Execution Plans, risk assessments, and change records, ensuring alignment with approved scope, schedule, and budget.
- Manage project start‑up and close‑out activities, including internal briefings, client kick‑off meetings, acceptance of deliverables, lessons learned, and final financial settlement.
- Plan, execute, monitor, and close project scopes, supporting first‑of‑kind operational deployments and ensuring readiness across people, processes, and technology.
- Control project expenditures and procurement of equipment and materials, providing accurate and timely reporting on financial, schedule, and QHSSE performance.
- Maintain effective internal and external client relationships and collaborate with commercial teams to ensure USV tendering aligns with capabilities, timelines, resources, and approved rate structures.
- Apply company project governance frameworks, standards, and best practices across all assigned work.
- Establish and maintain project schedules, budgets, risk and opportunity registers, and formal change control processes.
- Proactively identify, manage, and escalate risks and opportunities to support informed decision‑making and delivery assurance.
- Support service line project teams with specialist USV knowledge, ensuring successful integration of the USV platform within wider projects.
- Provide functional oversight of project management activities within the Uncrewed Solutions Group’s sphere of influence, recognising regional and service‑line variations.
- Coordinate standardisation initiatives and share best practices, tools, and resources across service lines in collaboration with the Operational Excellence organisation.
- Build strong relationships with regional and business‑line project management peers to drive consistent adoption of best‑practice delivery processes.
- Advise on the resolution of significant project risks and contribute to the development, improvement, and compliance of project management procedures related to uncrewed solutions.
- Demonstrate visible leadership and genuine management commitment to strengthening the safety culture, with a focus on ensuring new technologies and developments reduce HSSE risk.
- Ensure all personnel involved in implementation, trials, and pilots comply with Fugro values, the Code of Conduct, and Life‑Saving Rules, maintaining a safe and healthy working environment.
- Deliver assigned projects and work packages within approved EBIT targets through effective cost control, risk management, and execution discipline.
- Establish and maintain auditable project execution documentation in compliance with Fugro project management standards and client requirements, enabling internal assurance and client acceptance.
- Achieve successful delivery of defined operational readiness milestones for new assets, R&D outputs, and first‑of‑kind deployments, with no critical readiness gaps at go‑
Job Requirements
- High school diploma required; technical or bachelor’s degree preferred.
- Have 3 to 8 years of experience in project management as a Project Manager or Commercial Tender Coordinator with a technical background.
- Have 1 year or more experience in team, direct, or indirect management, including management of technical projects executed by contractors, vendors, or other 3rd party groups preferred.
- Project Management Qualification desirable.
- Ability to read and interpret general business communications, client project documents, contacts, commercial proposals, equipment specifications, task procedures, governmental regulations, and industry periodicals.
- Ability to write project documents, proposals, reports, general business correspondence, and procedures.
- Proven ability to take business strategy or vision and translate it into a realistic, timely and cost-effective action plan.
- Experienced with MS Office Suite including Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, SharePoint.
- Capable of navigating accounting software.
- MS Projects or similar programs.
Location: Houston, Texas, United States
