Project Manager Service & Refits

Welcome to Wajer

Wajer builds yachts and delivers them all over the world. Our shipyards in Heeg and Lemmer are running at full speed: we build approximately 50 yachts per year in series there, from the Wajer 38 to the 77. With Wajer Care, we ensure that our owners can sail without a worry afterwards, fully in line with our motto "Without a worry". More than a hundred Wajers sail as tenders for superyachts. They take guests to the beach, a restaurant, or the harbor, and they go wherever the superyacht goes: in the summer to the Mediterranean, in the winter often to the Caribbean Sea. From Heeg, you ensure they are ready for the next trip.

What you will do

As Project Manager Service & Refits, you are the permanent point of contact for your own portfolio of tenders throughout the year. You coordinate with the superyacht crew, usually the tender captain or the captain. You almost never speak to the owner: the captain takes your proposal to the owner. Captains are professionals. They know what they want and expect you to know their tender as well as they do. Most of the work happens far from Heeg, at our hubs or at an external shipyard near the superyacht. You manage it from Heeg. Together with our technicians, you determine what is needed, prepare the quote, and ensure parts, transport, and the right people are in the right place. Afterwards, you monitor budget, planning, and quality until the tender is back with its superyacht.

Take July. A captain is sailing near Sardinia and calls you: he sees several Volvo Penta alarms and feels a vibration in the yacht. You ask follow-up questions and present his story to our technicians in Heeg. Together, you suspect he hit something with an IPS pod. You advise him to have it inspected. That same day, the tender is taken out of the water and Volvo Penta finds internal damage to the pod. The parts are not available in Sardinia. You list what is needed, find it at Volvo Penta Nederland, and send the captain a quote. As soon as he gives approval, you set everything in motion that same day. The next day, the parts are on location.

In September, that same tender stops sailing. In November, it must be in the Caribbean Sea. You propose a short service in Heeg to the captain: the regular maintenance, the spare parts he wants on board in the Caribbean, and upgrades to keep the tender up to date. These are significant projects completed in a few weeks, and the departure date is fixed.

The season determines your year, and it is never truly quiet. In the winter, scheduled maintenance takes place. In the spring, deliveries follow one another and you travel the most. In the summer, the entire fleet is sailing and you are the first point of contact for technical questions for thirty to forty tenders. In the autumn, the pitstops arrive: short service intervals for tenders that sail for two seasons. Sometimes you have to tell a captain that something will take longer than he hopes.

Your playing field

Your base is Heeg and you report to Duncan McRae, Global Fleet Manager. You work together with our technicians, your fellow project managers, suppliers, external shipyards, and the teams at our hubs, including in Spain and France. Five to ten times a year, you will travel abroad yourself, especially to the South of France. There, you inspect tenders and check if the work has been done correctly. You are also present when we deliver a new tender to a superyacht. At that point, you take over from sales, and from that moment on, the crew knows you as their point of contact.

What you bring

You have a completed HBO degree, preferably in (technical) business administration, and experience as a project manager or coordinator in a technical environment. Experience in the superyacht world, at a refit shipyard, or with a supplier gives you an advantage. This also applies to knowledge of Volvo Penta engines and IPS.

You know enough about technology to help a captain with the right questions and to conduct the conversation with a technician. In one conversation, you explain what his tender needs, what it costs, and how long it will take. You keep your cool when multiple tenders require attention at the same time in the summer, and you enjoy finalizing a good proposal. English is your working language with the crews.

What you can expect

• A salary between € 4.244 and € 5.777 gross per month, plus 8% holiday allowance
• An annual contract with a one-month probation period, which we would like to extend afterwards
• 27 vacation days and 6.5 ADV days based on a 39-hour work week
• Cao Metalektro and pension at PME
• A travel allowance of € 0.25 per kilometer
• Support in obtaining your boating licenses (KVB 1 and 2)

How to come aboard

Ready to come aboard? Apply via the button on this page. Do you have a question first? Call or email Lieseth Flisijn, recruiter at Wajer: +31 (0)6 2980 5895 or lieseth@wajer.nl.