Project Manager- Stavanger

We are looking for a proactive and structured Project Manager who thrives on responsibility, collaboration, and a fast-paced environment. With us, you’ll have the opportunity to shape, develop, and drive projects from concept to completion---working in a culture built on trust, expertise, and supportive colleagues.

The Project Manager has a crucial role in ensuring the success of projects by coordinating with various departments and subcontractors. The cross-functional collaboration is essential for meeting deadlines and maintaining efficiency.

As part of this role, the Project Manager will support our operations and projects in Norway & wider Scandinavia, providing commercial and technical support for our Rentals and Certification & Inspection services in this region.

We are incredibly proud of what we have achieved already in this part of the world and excited about what is to come. The new Project Manager will play an integral part in ensuring that success continues, by guiding our projects efficiently, supporting our clients and helping to build our business globally.

About the team:

You’ll be joining our Motive team, who are mainly based in Stavanger. Over the past few years, this team has grown significantly as Motive continues to expand, and our intention is to continue this. Reporting into the Head of Delivery, you’ll be working alongside both our C&I and Rentals teams that strive for high quality service of work.

You will also be working alongside a committed and proud Motive team globally that want to play their part in the growth of the business and support each other daily to create a positive, values driven and hard-working professional environment.

Responsibilities: People

Adopting and promoting the Motive Offshore Group People Values and ensuring their use is embedded throughout day-to-day tasks and decision making.

• Define project scope, goals, and deliverables in collaboration with stakeholders.

• Allocate resources effectively to ensure project success.

• Lead and motivate project teams to achieve project objectives.

• Facilitate team meetings, workshops, and discussions as needed.

• Prepare and present project reports to stakeholders and senior management.

• Foster a collaborative and positive team environment.

• Develop and maintain relationships with vendors, suppliers, and external partners.

Planet

• Adhere to and participate in company-wide sustainability policies, procedures and initiatives as they are developed to support our Net Zero objectives.

• Ensure compliance with relevant laws, regulations, and ethical standards.

• Responsible for ensuring that project activities comply with all relevant Health, Safety, Environmental, and Quality (HSEQ) processes, procedures, and regulatory requirements.

• Identify and manage project risks and develop appropriate mitigation strategies.

Product

• Liaise closely internally to ensure scopes of work, project specifications, priorities, plans, schedules, and any other information required to successfully deliver against all clients’ requirements are clearly communicated, understood, and agreed.

• Develop detailed project plans, including tasks, timelines, and resource allocation.

• Monitor project progress, track milestones, and manage potential delays.

• Manage project budgets and ensure that costs remain within approved limits.

• Conduct regular quality checks to ensure project deliverables meet established standards.

• Handle scope changes through formal change control processes.

• Evaluate project performance and identify opportunities for improvement.

• Ensure timely project closure, stakeholder sign-off, and project reviews.

• Document project processes, lessons learned, and best practices for future reference.

Required skills / knowledge:

• Demonstrable experience in the management and provision of services preferably in Marine Engineering and Construction including flexibles, flowlines, risers, umbilical installations etc.

• Demonstrable operational experience supporting client organisations, leading teams and strong commercial awareness with excellent safety behaviours and focus on customer satisfaction.

• Project Management and/or business qualification.

• Relevant Engineering Degree or equivalent technical qualification with industry experience.

What we can offer you:

Alongside the benefits below, working with Motive can take you places that you might not have thought possible. Every region we operate in, bring their own wonderful cultures & ways of working. And as a global business, you will become colleagues with people not only in the UK, but also in Taiwan, Singapore, the UAE, Norway, Brazil and in the US. You can look forward to becoming part of our people-centred approach that sees us work closely together, supporting clients and projects in multiple countries across the world.

People are at the heart of everything we do and we’re incredibly proud of the development opportunities that many of our staff have benefitted from. Since we started in 2010, we’ve seen school leavers work their way to senior positions, people relocate to other parts of the world and countless colleagues develop skills, receive training and advance their technical knowledge to enhance their own career, which in turn helps us continuously improve as a business, an employer and carry out the services we have become renowned for. At Motive, we believe in growing together. We are One Team, One Motive, and your journey is part of our shared success.