Director, Fabrication – Rig & Marine

Esbjerg

Are you an experienced and result-driven leader with a strong understanding of fabrication and complex project execution? Do you thrive in a strategic role where you set direction and enable strong execution through your leadership team? Then this could be your next career opportunity.

Your position

In your new position as Director, Fabrication in the Rig & Marine division, you will take on the overall responsibility for our fabrication activities and play a key role in shaping the future of our execution capabilities. You will be a key member of the Rig & Marine leadership team, responsible for setting the strategic direction for fabrication and ensuring strong alignment across fabrication, project management, and workshop operations. You will also play a key role in driving the commercial development of the fabrication business, ensuring profitable growth, supporting business development activities, and contributing to strategic customer engagement and tender opportunities.

You will lead and develop the fabrication area at our site in Esbjerg, where our fabrication setup works closely together with the Project Management function.

At Semco Maritime, safety is a core value, and in this role, you will contribute to maintaining and promoting a strong safety culture while delivering innovative solutions. Above all, your work will make a real change for the global energy sector.

It is our ambition to become a leading partner within fabrication, engineering, and complex project execution. In this role, you will ensure that this ambition is reflected in how we structure, develop, and deliver our fabrication activities

Senior Director, Projects, John K. Andersen.

Your tasks & responsibilities

As Director, Fabrication, you will be responsible for the overall performance, development, and strategic direction of fabrication within Rig & Marine. You will take full ownership of the fabrication facility and ensure strong performance, clear structures, and continuous improvement across projects. In this role, you will lead the fabrication setup at our site in Esbjerg and secure strong collaboration across fabrication, project management, and workshop operations.

Your tasks will include but are not limited to:

  • Leading and developing the fabrication organisation, ensuring high performance, collaboration, and people development.
  • Setting and driving the strategic direction for fabrication, including structures, processes, and continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Ensuring strong alignment across fabrication, project management, and workshop operations to optimize execution.
  • Holding overall accountability for safety, quality, delivery, and financial performance within fabrication.
  • Acting as a key stakeholder in tenders, projects, and leadership decisions across Rig & Marine.
  • Driving the commercial performance of the fabrication business, including support to tenders, contract negotiations, customer relationships, and profitable business growth.

Your profile & qualifications

We are looking for a strong and strategic leader with a solid understanding of fabrication and complex project environments. You combine a structured and analytical approach with strong leadership and communication skills and are able to create clarity and direction in a dynamic organisation.

To succeed in this position, we imagine that you have:

  • Experience from fabrication within offshore, maritime, or energy-related industries.
  • Strong strategic understanding and the ability to translate strategy into execution.
  • Solid experience as a leader of leaders within complex project organisations.
  • Experience with full P&L responsibility and a proven ability to balance operational excellence with commercial performance.
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across all organisational levels.
  • Proven ability to create structure, processes, and continuous improvement initiatives.
  • A relevant technical education, e.g. Engineer or similar.
  • Fluent English skills, written and spoken; Danish is an advantage.

Contact data:

John K. Andersen
Director, Projects
7914 7869

Deadline: 05/10/2026

Ansættelsestype: Employment type: Permanent

Hjemmearbejde: Remote work: Not disclosed

Ugentlig arbejdstid: Weekly working time: Full-time

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Our goal is to make you a success in your new job. Below, you can see our recruitment process from when you apply, to the evaluation

Our recruitment process:

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If you are interested in one of our job openings, please apply online as we only accept electronic applications. You will receive a confirmation e-mail within 24 hours. We screen all our applications continually during the application period. In order to find the right match we look at competences, experience and education.

Unsolicited applications:

you can also submit an unsolicited application online. Your application will be filed in our job database - and every time we have a job opening we check this database to see if we have a match.

The purpose of the first interview is to get an impression of the person behind the application and to clarify expectations. You will get the opportunity to explain your motivation in applying for the job and we will introduce you to our company, departments and values.

If you have given us your consent, we will also follow up on your references at this point.

Based on the information provided in your application and interview, we will make use of various profile tools in the second interview. For some positions we also use cases to get an impression of the candidate’s analytical and problem-solving abilities.

We will go into your professional qualifications and personal competences in depth using two tools: A personality profile analysis (PPA), and a General Intelligence Test (GIA). We will provide feedback on your profile and/or the result of your tests and on how well the results match the job at hand.

After the second interview, we will evaluate and make a decision based on the two interviews.

If everything goes according to plan - and you get the job, you will begin a on-boarding process which will make sure that you become successfully integrated in the Semco-organisation.

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