Project Manager
Key Skills
Job Description
🚢 WE’RE HIRING: PROJECT MANAGER / EMERGENCY TOWAGE COORDINATOR 📍 On-site | Shore-based position 📋 Project-based / Per-case assignment ⏳ Immediate joining / ASAP Vanguard-Tech, a maritime salvage and emergency response company, is seeking an experienced professional with a proven background in marine salvage operations and salvage project coordination. You will support active salvage and emergency towage cases, managing shore-side operational, logistical, commercial, and communication requirements. Key Responsibilities Coordinate vessel and tug mobilisation, scheduling, agents, and logistics. Liaise with Salvage Masters, tug operators, vessel owners, clients, insurers, and subcontractors. Coordinate emergency towage arrangements and monitor operational readiness. Lead daily coordination calls and maintain clear operational updates and case records. Monitor subcontractor performance, project costs, and mobilisation requirements. Support invoicing, contractual variations, and project close-out. Identify operational issues early and escalate them to management. Essential Requirements Direct experience in marine salvage operations or salvage project management is mandatory. Proven experience coordinating personnel, vessels, tugs, and specialist contractors during salvage or casualty response operations. Strong coordination, communication, reporting, and cost-control skills. Ability to work under pressure and remain available outside normal working hours during active cases. Immediate availability or ability to join at short notice. Knowledge of WRECKHIRE, TOWHIRE, and TOWCON is an advantage. Only candidates with direct marine salvage experience will be considered. 📩 Send your CV and earliest joining date to [email protected], or reach out for a confidential discussion. #MarineSalvage #SalvageJobs #ProjectManager #EmergencyTowage #MaritimeJobs #VanguardTech
Core Responsibilities
Coordinate vessel and tug mobilization, emergency towage arrangements, logistics, and communications among salvage teams, operators, clients, insurers, and contractors. Monitor operational readiness, subcontractor performance, costs, and case records, while supporting invoicing, contract changes, issue escalation, and project close-out.
Requirements
Direct experience in marine salvage operations or salvage project management is mandatory, including coordinating personnel, vessels, tugs, and specialist contractors during salvage or casualty response operations. Candidates need strong coordination, communication, reporting, and cost-control skills, the ability to work under pressure and outside normal hours during active cases, and immediate or short-notice availability.
About Vanguard Tech
Industry: Maritime Transportation
Company size: 51-200 employees
Vanguard Tech is an intelligence-led maritime risk and recovery business helping organisations understand, manage, respond to and recover from maritime risk. We bring together maritime intelligence, risk insight, loss prevention, digital technology, 24/7 monitoring, crisis and operational response, casualty and salvage expertise, and marine insurance support within one connected organisation. At the heart of Vanguard is our 24/7 Maritime Assistance Centre (MAC), connecting intelligence, technology and operational capability around the clock. From identifying an emerging security threat or monitoring a high-risk voyage to supporting a developing casualty, mobilising specialist response or helping manage recovery, our teams work together rather than as separate services. Our capabilities include: • Maritime Intelligence & Risk Insight • Voyage, Port & Regional Risk Assessment • Vessel Ownership, Affiliation & Sanctions Screening • Vessel Monitoring & Maritime Domain Awareness • Loss Prevention Hub, Digital Guard & Risk Dashboards • Digital CSO & SSAS Support • Global Overwatch for Registries & Flag Administrations • Crisis, Emergency & High-Risk Area Response • Casualty, Salvage, Towage & STS Support • Firefighting, Diving, Subsea & Wreck Removal • Marine Insurance, Claims & Recovery Support We work with shipowners, operators, managers, charterers, insurers, P&I clubs, brokers, ports, registries and flag administrations worldwide. Intelligence is where the process starts — helping clients see risk earlier, make better-informed decisions and access the right expertise when circumstances change. Understand. Manage. Respond. Recover.