About The Role
Are you an experienced leader in ports and harbours, navigation risk or marine safety governance? Do you enjoy shaping strategy, guiding high-performing teams and delivering high-quality consultancy for clients across the marine infrastructure sector? Are you ready to take on a senior leadership role shaping how ports and harbours manage safety, risk and marine infrastructure?
We’re looking for an Associate Director for Ports & Harbours to join NASH Maritime, part of the APEM Group, and lead a growing specialist team working at the forefront of maritime risk, navigation safety and marine infrastructure development. NASH Maritime combines consulting, technology and software to deliver market-leading navigation and maritime risk solutions. As part of our leadership team, you’ll play a key role in driving strategic expansion, strengthening client relationships and ensuring the delivery of robust, science-based solutions across the UK and internationally.
This role blends technical credibility, commercial insight and team leadership. You’ll lead and grow the Ports & Harbours Team, guide the pipeline of opportunities, strengthen key client relationships, and support the delivery of high-quality, science-led consulting across the UK and internationally. This is a value-creating leadership role, ideal for someone highly collaborative, commercially minded, and motivated to shape the future of navigation safety.
What you’ll bring
Essential
* Technical proficiency – evidenced by an established track record of providing navigation risk and marine safety projects in ports and harbours.
* Market knowledge and key customer contacts in the marine infrastructure development and marine safety governance sector.
Desirable
* Strong project management skills and track record of managing projects on time and in budget.
* Familiarity with project management procedures and protocols, including experience with quality assurance, the checking and approval of proposals, and reports.
* Excellent analytical and communication skills and techniques to provide advice and engage clients, project teams and stakeholders.
* Experience of management and guiding teams.
* Leadership of teams on major projects.
* Chartered membership of a relevant professional organisation.
You will be offered the chance to work on a variety of projects, many of our employees have worked on projects that have been of personal interest to them. We match this with a commitment to continuous development and learning to support your career. We also offer benefits to look after you, from private medical insurance for all employees, access to mental health first aiders and comprehensive income protection if you cannot work. We also offer superb flexible working options, balancing work with your life.
Next steps
We are focused on creating a diverse and inclusive team. If you can’t tick every box on our job description, then we are still keen to hear from you and are open to supporting your development. That may be working part time or supporting you to gain experience in a specific area – we are a growing company and are able to adapt roles to reflect individual skills.
If you think you have what it takes to join our fast-growing business, then please apply immediately on our website. All we need some basic information and your CV, we will review all applications quickly and will respond to all applications.
About Us
The APEM Group is a global environmental consultancy, we work with a range of clients including large corporations and governments to help them understand and solve a wide variety of environmental projects in the UK and globally. Our successful pioneering work has enabled us to grow and combine forces with other businesses who share our ethos and integrity. At our core, our people are working towards the protection of the environment across the globe.
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