Project Management
VSTEP
Administration
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Posted 6+ months ago
Project Management
Rotterdam
Full-time
Permanent employee
This is what you like to do
To strengthen our growing organisation, VSTEP is looking for a Project Manager.
In this role you will bring structure, clarity, and excellence across our operations, while actively delivering complex, multi-disciplinary projects.
This critical, client-facing role involves coordinating the delivery of both hardware and software components, aligning our internal technical teams, and ensuring a seamless experience for the client side.
Your involvement starts early, working alongside Business Development during the proposal phase to define clear scopes, timelines and budgets. Throughout the entire project lifecycle, you will champion stakeholder management by maintaining strong and clear communication between internal teams and international clients, ensuring that all parties move in sync toward success.
Job description
Your daily activities will include:
In this role you will bring structure, clarity, and excellence across our operations, while actively delivering complex, multi-disciplinary projects.
This critical, client-facing role involves coordinating the delivery of both hardware and software components, aligning our internal technical teams, and ensuring a seamless experience for the client side.
Your involvement starts early, working alongside Business Development during the proposal phase to define clear scopes, timelines and budgets. Throughout the entire project lifecycle, you will champion stakeholder management by maintaining strong and clear communication between internal teams and international clients, ensuring that all parties move in sync toward success.
Job description
Your daily activities will include:
- Managing complex or strategic technical delivery projects, from requirements to commissioning
- Managing expectations and maintaining strong communication with both internal stakeholders and external clients
- Translating complex technical language and progress into clear, actionable updates for non-technical stakeholders and management
- Reporting project progress, risks, and budget performance to management
- Ensuring proper documentation and delivering professional reports and presentations
- Coordinating the full project lifecycle: requirements, concept design, procurement, delivery and commissioning
- Aligning simulation engineering, development, commercial, and operational teams to meet all project deliverables
- Comfortably managing multiple concurrent deliveries simultaneously and able to work effectively under pressure
Is this you?
You have:
- 5 – 7 years of core project management experience in a technical delivery or systems integration environment
- A valid Dutch working permit
- Experience managing projects with both hardware and software components
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, and excellent stakeholder management abilities
- A structured and organized approach to work, with attention to detail
- Conflict resolution abilities and a proactive problem-solving mindset
- Fluency in English (Dutch is a plus)
- A drive to implement continuous improvement and exceeding targets
- A Prince2 Agile Practitioner certification (preferred)
- Someone who brings order, clarity and structure to dynamic project environments
- Available 40 hours a week
- Located in the Netherlands
- In possession of a Dutch driving license (category B)
This is what you want in a job!
- A flexible, international, and hybrid working environment based in Rotterdam
- Opportunity to lead diverse, international projects that leave room for innovation and thoughtful detail
- Collaboration with an experienced team, building software for world-class simulators
- Freedom to set your working hours between 07:00 and 19:00
- 25 annual holidays/ 200 holiday hours based on a 40-hour contract
- Unlimited access to GoodHabitz, our online learning platform
- Keti-Koti on the first of July, as an extra holiday
- The possibility to arrange partial remote work
- A competitive salary package based on experience and the value you bring
About us
VSTEP| Enable learning by simulation. VSTEP is a leading developer of ship simulators and virtual training software company based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. With over 60 dedicated professionals from diverse international backgrounds, located in the port of Rotterdam, we strive to train people for a safer world. We enable marine and safety professionals to learn and train by simulation in an efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable way to work towards a safer world. With 20+ years of experience and a strong client base all over the world, VSTEP wants to enable learning by simulation on a large scale. We do this by offering a strong NAUTIS product portfolio covering the full learning and training cycle of a maritime professional, and Response Simulator, our virtual training tool for emergency responders.