Pool Manager - Subsea Cables

What are you looking for?

What do we promise?

• Contributing to one of a kind projects
• Creating new horizons, literally
• Excellent secondary employment conditions

What do we ask of you?

• Communication
• Organizational Awareness
• Planning and Organizing

How you can make your mark

Make Your Mark as Pool Manager for the Project Engineering Pool of Subsea Cables at Boskalis Offshore Energy! Join us in a pivotal role where you, alongside the Engineering Manager, will ensure optimal staffing for our projects from preparation through execution, both in the short and long term. Beyond coordinating staffing requirements, you will oversee the supervision, development, and training of the project engineering pool, as well as the assessment of both internal and external personnel.

Your Role:

In collaboration with the Engineering Manager, you will enhance department processes, working methods, and overall quality. You will also manage administrative aspects of resource management, including handling contracts, ensuring complete time registration, and approving expense claims.

To excel as a Pool Manager, you must effectively balance supply and demand, manage various internal stakeholders, and foster cooperation within and between departments. You thrive on helping people grow professionally, getting the best out of them, and can quickly adapt to match supply and demand. Your responsibilities extend to organizing collective courses and ensuring engineers comply with required certifications and safety training.

Your responsibilities as Pool Manager – Subsea Cables:

• Resource Management: Match supply and demand, considering personal experience, ambition and potential. Ensure projects are adequately and timely staffed from a Project Engineering perspective.
• Personal Development: Track and facilitate personal and career development, including annual performance evaluations.
• Recruitment: Provide insights into long-term hiring requirements and follow up by the actual recruitment and onboarding of new personnel in collaboration with HR.
• Planning & Communication: Oversee the planning process, timely communication with employees and projects/vessels, and ensure the timely provision of relevant information to all stakeholders.
• External Hiring: Manage the timely inflow of external non-Boskalis employees, including agency involvement, screening, interviewing, selecting candidates, and managing contractual matters. As well as onboarding and evaluation at the end of an assignment.
• Team Building: Act as the point of contact for the Project Engineering pool and foster a team that is connected across our projects.

We offer

You can make your mark as a Pool Manager - Subsea Cables if you have:

• 3 to 7 years of relevant experience, preferably in international deployment/offshore (oil and gas and/or renewables) and/or maritime environment.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• Strong communication skills and proficiency in English, both written and spoken.
• A unifying personality with excellent interpersonal skills.
• Motivation and eagerness to develop your skills in this role.
• Demonstrated leadership, teamwork, proactivity, and a hands-on mentality.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in operational processes (offshore experience preferred).

What You Can Expect:

• A Dynamic Environment: A job that allows you to collaborate with a talented team of experts from different backgrounds and contribute to making a significant impact in the renewable energy market.
• Rewarding Conditions: Competitive salary, holiday allowance, 26 days of holiday entitlement (based on a full-time contract), collective scheduled days off, a non-contributory pension scheme, and collective schemes such as company health insurance.
• Career Development: We offer you plenty of opportunities to bring out the best in yourself for example through (online) courses at our Boskalis academy.
• The Boskalis Campus: Experience the unique Boskalis vibe at our Papendrecht site, complete with restaurants, sports field, and a wharf where our vessels dock. We offer a state-of-the-art auditorium, brainstorming rooms, experience center for client meetings, and a barista corner where you can connect with colleagues.
• Young Boskalis: Are you under 36? Come and join Young Boskalis! Have fun and join in social and sports activities ranging from pub quizzes to yoga, bootcamps and an annual sailing boat race. Networking and knowledge sharing are a vital part of Young Boskalis as well.

Extra Information:

• Your team: You will be part of the Engineering team, working closely with the Engineering Manager.
• Where you will work: Office-based in our Papendrecht Head Office with the option to work partially from home. Occasional travel to our UK office is required.
• Full/Part-time: This is a full-time (40 hours per week) or part-time (minimum 24 hours – subject to experience) role.

About Boskalis

Working at Boskalis is about creating new horizons and sustainable solutions. In a world where population growth, an increase of global trade, demand for (new) energy and climate change are driving forces, we challenge you to make your mark in finding innovative and relevant solutions for complex infrastructural and marine projects.

In your job you will work for the offshore energy division. Boskalis has one of the largest global fleets of specialized offshore vessels, allowing us to carry out a broad range of offshore activities. We provide innovative and sustainable all-round solutions to tackle major worldwide maritime challenges. Our Offshore Energy division supports sustainable energy solutions such as wind energy as well as traditional fossil facilities. We’re involved in the entire journey from developing and transporting to maintaining and decommissioning these facilities.

“We’ll be happy to answer your questions about the position of Pool Manager - Subsea Cables.” Matthew Hurrel, Recruiter

Disclaimer for Recruiters and Recruitment Agencies:

We appreciate your interest in our vacancies and understand that your candidate might be enthusiastic about this exciting opportunity. However, our recruitment process is not structured this way, at Boskalis we handle recruitment ourselves. Therefore we do not accept unsolicited applications or CVs from recruitment agencies. Any submission will be treated as a direct application.