Wärtsilä is seeking a Project Delivery Lead to drive our mission of enabling sustainable societies through innovation. In this senior role, you will lead the end-to-end delivery of complex digital port solutions globally, providing hands-on leadership to multidisciplinary teams.
What You'll Do
- Lead end-to-end delivery of Digital Port Solutions including PMIS, Pilotage Dispatch, mobile apps, and PCS integrations.
- Oversee project planning, execution, monitoring, risk management, schedule tracking, and milestone delivery.
- Establish strong governance routines and transparent project reporting.
- Drive cross-functional alignment and remove delivery roadblocks.
- Provide leadership and coaching to Business Analysts, Project Managers, and technical workstreams.
- Strengthen delivery methodology, templates, and internal standards.
- Support onboarding, knowledge transfer, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Act as the primary delivery focal point for Harbour Masters, Port IT, Marine Operations, Pilots, and senior port stakeholders.
- Build trusted customer relationships and manage expectations within complex environments.
- Lead steering committee meetings, requirement clarification sessions, and high-level scope discussions.
- Supervise and manage delivery margins, cost tracking, invoicing milestones, and change orders.
- Ensure compliance with contractual commitments and support commercial clarifications.
- Contribute to pre-sales by providing delivery estimates, risk analysis, and resource planning.
- Enhance delivery playbooks, templates, and best practices for repeatable execution.
- Incorporate learnings from global port projects to improve predictability and quality.
What We're Looking For
- 10+ years’ experience delivering complex digital projects to external clients, ideally within maritime, port, or similar operational environments.
- Proven leadership of Business Analysts and Project Managers.
- Strong stakeholder management with executive teams.
- Experience managing multi-year, multi-stream delivery programs.
Nice to Have
- Experience in port operations—such as harbour master functions, port authority digital initiatives, pilotage, towage, berth planning, or marine operations.
Work Mode
This position offers a hybrid work arrangement and is located in Vancouver.
Wärtsilä is an equal opportunity employer.
