Project manager Safety
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Project management
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Demonstrable experience taking a product, system or operation through a certification or regulatory approval process — with a classification society, flag state or national authority
- Solid project management skills: you can run several parallel approval and improvement tracks, each with its own stakeholders and deadlines, without losing the thread
- Experience with risk assessment and incident investigation methodologies (HAZID, HAZOP, FMEA, root cause analysis)
- Strong communication skills — you are as comfortable presenting to a regulator or a conference audience as you are in a technical discussion with engineers
- Excellent written English and Dutch; additional European languages are a strong plus
Nice to have
- Experience with autonomous, remotely operated or highly automated systems: shipping, rail, automotive or aviation
- An existing network within maritime, inland, industrial regulatory bodies, class societies or industry associations
- Experience working with software product teams in an agile setting
Full description
Seafar is an innovative technology and service provider for the maritime sector, founded in 2018. We offer a unique combination of hardware, software, and Remote Operations Centers (ROCs) that enable the remote operation of vessels, increasing safety, efficiency, and operational continuity in inland and coastal shipping.
Our mission? Clearing the path toward autonomous shipping — and we’re only just getting started. With a strong vision and international ambition, we’re growing fast. Are you ready to play a key role in this journey?
To support our expanding team, we’re looking for a Project manager Safety who will further shape and develop Seafar’s Safety strategy across all our operations.
About the role
As Project Manager Safety, you own Seafar's safety story end to end: you get our technology certified and approved, you make sure safety is designed into the product rather than bolted on afterwards, and you represent Seafar in the international conversation about how autonomous and remotely operated shipping should be regulated.
You are the bridge between three worlds, the regulators and class societies who decide what is permitted, the product and engineering teams who build what we ship, and the customers and crews who operate it every day. You translate between them, and you keep our internal quality and safety management system running underneath it all.
This is a hands-on project management role with a strong external profile. You will be in front of authorities and industry panels as often as you are in a sprint review.
What you'll doCertification and approval of our technology
- Own the roadmap for getting Seafar's hardware, software and ROC operations certified and approved — with classification societies, and industry stakeholders across our markets
- Build and maintain the safety cases, technical files and evidence packages that support type approvals, class notations, permits and derogations
- Act as Seafar's single point of contact towards class societies, industry stakeholders and regulators during approval processes, from first submission to final certificate
- Track the approval status of every vessel, waterway and product configuration, and keep stakeholders informed on what is approved, what is pending and what is blocked
- Anticipate certification requirements for products still in development, so approval is not the thing that delays a launch
Standards, regulation and industry dialogue
- Keep Seafar aligned with the standards that matter to us — ISO 9001, ISO 45001, ISO 27001, TMSA, class rules and the evolving international and European frameworks for automated and remotely operated navigation