Interim Project Manager Project Control & Optimization CO2 Infrastructure – Rotterdam Area/Hybrid Working

Project overview

Organization

You will work within a multidisciplinary project organization developing CO2 infrastructure for transport and storage. The project connects industrial CO2 capture with onshore and offshore infrastructure and involves professionals from multiple collaborating organizations. The environment is technically complex and has diverse internal and external stakeholders.

Interim Project Manager Project Control & Optimization CO2 Infrastructure

As an Interim Project Manager Project Control & Optimization CO2 Infrastructure, you will strengthen the onshore project management within a large-scale CO2 transport and storage project. You will support daily project management tasks and ensure that management has the steering information needed to execute the project in a controlled manner.

You will manage information flows across various dossiers and translate detailed information to the appropriate level for decision-making and steering. Additionally, you will prepare, update, and maintain project documentation, including project execution plans, reports, specifications, presentations, and minutes. A significant dossier involves the verification and validation of project requirements.

You will bring the right people together and use your coordinating and functionally leading skills to steer actions and activities. As an Interim Project Manager Project Control & Optimization CO2 Infrastructure, you will evaluate your own work and that of the team, and implement improvements in efficiency, project structures, and quality. You will recognize and incorporate the interests and interfaces between internal teams and external stakeholders in the project's preparation and execution.

Responsibilities and Results

• Background: Temporary reinforcement is needed within the onshore project management for a large-scale CO2 transport and storage project. The assignment focuses on project control, steering information, documentation, and improving processes and collaboration within a complex project organization.
• Intention: To provide project management with reliable steering information and structured project control, so that project goals can be achieved in a timely and controlled manner.
• Personality x Skill: You are a proactive, hands-on project manager who quickly gets to the core of project information, can functionally manage multidisciplinary parties, and implements improvements without losing sight of the technical context.
• Supporting project management with daily tasks and responsibilities and ensuring current, usable steering information;
• Collecting, structuring, and translating necessary steering information from detail level to the desired information level;
• Managing information flows around various project dossiers and ensuring relevant project information is available and up-to-date;
• Preparing, updating, and maintaining project documentation, including project execution plans, reports, specifications, presentations, and minutes;
• Supporting the verification and validation of project requirements and keeping the relevant dossier controlled and up-to-date;
• Functionally coordinating and managing project team members and involved disciplines to align work and actions in a timely manner;
• Evaluating own actions and those of the team and implementing improvements in efficiency, project structures, and quality;
• Proactively identifying interfaces and risks and coordinating with internal teams and external stakeholders to ensure progress and mitigate risks in a timely manner;
• Challenging technical subjects from the perspective of project control;
• Contributing to the timely achievement of project goals through improvements in efficiency, project structures, quality, and collaboration.

Requirements

Note: These are hard requirements from the client

Desirables

Competencies

Deliverables

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Application

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• The position is for 32
• 40 hours per week;
• Interviews on Thursday, November 12, 2026;
• It is still worthwhile to apply without government experience;
• Coordinating and functionally managing/leading skills within a project organization;
• Ability to proactively identify problems hands-on, provide solutions, and implement process improvements in the ongoing organization;
• Experience with verification and validation of requirements within a project environment;
• Affinity with technology and the ability to ask the right questions and challenge in relation to project control;
• VCA-VOL certificate or willingness to obtain it;
• Ability to proactively identify and manage potential interfaces through coordination with internal teams and external stakeholders;
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team;
• Good oral and written communication skills in Dutch and English.
• WO (higher professional education) work and thinking level, for example in Business Administration or a technical field;
• At least 3 years of experience in project management or project control in the energy sector, CC(U)S sector, or similar, and thorough knowledge of project management methodologies and tools;
• Available for a digital introductory meeting on November 12, 2026.
• Proactive;
• Hands-on;
• Coordinating;
• Functionally leading;
• Collaborative;
• Strong communicator;
• Analytical;
• Solution-oriented;
• Stakeholder-aware.
• CV tailored to the assignment, prepared in Dutch, Word format, max. 5 A4 pages;
• Provide a short motivation for this assignment (max. 1 A4 page);
• 2 references with contact details (These may be consulted by the client during an intake interview);
• Indication of hourly rate.
• You will receive an acknowledgment of receipt within 24 hours and always a reasoned response within 3 days after the closing date/assessment.
• If you have questions in the meantime, you can contact the contact person for more information, e.g., about who the end client is and about the assignment agreement. We can also transparently advise you on pricing.

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Location: Omgeving Rotterdam/Hybride Werken, NL
• Rate: 190-190 EUR/h
• Languages: Dutch