Project Manager (7728)

Are you looking for an opportunity with plenty of growth potential? Do you enjoy working in an exciting, fast-paced, collaborative environment? Are you interested in working with the world's most innovative companies to create a more connected world?

Connecting Continents. Impacting Communities.

The backbone of the Internet is a series of high-tech subsea fiber optic cables deployed throughout the globe - SubCom has deployed over 50% of them. Our employees ensure data communications networks are engineered, manufactured, deployed to the highest standards, enabling faster and more reliable connectivity to communities worldwide. Every member of the SubCom team plays a role in an end-to-end process that is critical to enterprises, governments, big cities, and rural towns.

We encourage, expect, and value creativity, thoughtful risk taking, openness to change, and diverse perspectives. Whether you're a seasoned applicant seeking a new and exciting challenge, or you're new to the workforce and looking for a flexible, rewarding, and fast-paced position with an innovative and stable organization (since 1953), SubCom has opportunities to advance your career.

Position Overview

The Project Manager leads the end-to-end delivery of complex, large-scale turnkey subsea fiber optic cable systems, from pre-award support and contract handover through engineering, procurement, manufacture, marine installation, testing, acceptance and final close-out. The role is accountable for safe, compliant and commercially successful delivery in accordance with contractual scope, schedule, budget, quality requirements and customer expectations.

Working through a matrix organization, the Project Manager provides clear direction to multidisciplinary teams across engineering, procurement, manufacturing, quality, finance, commercial, permitting, marine operations and installation. The role establishes the project strategy and governance framework, aligns stakeholders around key milestones and leads timely resolution of technical, operational, contractual and commercial issues.

As the principal customer interface, the Project Manager leads project level communications, negotiations, decision making, formal notices, change control and performance reporting throughout the project lifecycle. The role proactively identifies risks and opportunities, implements effective mitigation plans and adapts execution strategies to protect safety, quality, schedule, margin, cash flow and the company's contractual position.

Responsibilities

• Lead one or more turnkey subsea fiber optic cable projects from pre-award and contract handover through engineering, manufacture, marine installation, commissioning, acceptance and close-out.
• Define the project execution strategy, organization, governance, objectives, lifecycle plan, work breakdown structure, schedule, budget and reporting cadence.
• Build, lead and motivate a cross-functional project team, establishing clear roles, accountabilities, decision paths and performance expectations.
• Act as the primary customer contact for commercial, contractual, technical, schedule and delivery matters, maintaining constructive relationships with customers, suppliers, partners and other key stakeholders.
• Own project profit and loss, revenue, margin, cash flow, billing milestones, forecasts and cost control; identify and pursue opportunities to improve project margin and revenue, investigate variances and implement corrective action.
• Manage the contract, including scope, deliverables, terms and conditions, technical requirements, milestones, acceptance criteria and customer obligations.
• Lead change control, claims and commercial negotiations; issue timely contractual notices and maintain complete records that protect the company's entitlements and position.
• Maintain an integrated project risk and opportunity register, assign owners and ensure mitigation and contingency actions are implemented and monitored.
• Coordinate engineering, procurement, manufacturing, quality assurance, logistics, permitting, marine mobilization, cable installation, testing and commissioning interfaces.
• Ensure project activities comply with contractual requirements, the company's management systems and applicable health, safety, environmental, quality and regulatory standards.
• Monitor progress against the approved baseline, identify emerging issues, lead recovery planning and escalate material matters to senior leadership with clear recommendations.
• Prepare accurate and concise project reports covering safety, quality, schedule, cost, cash, risk, changes, decisions and actions.
• Secure contractual acceptance, complete financial and commercial close-out, coordinate operational handover and capture lessons learned to improve future project delivery.
• Promote a collaborative, accountable and inclusive project culture aligned with the company's values and commitment to high performance.