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Senior Technical Advisor

Join Primo Marine as a Senior Technical Advisor in Rotterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, or Darlington. Lead offshore cable projects with your engineering expertise, ensuring safety and efficiency. Benefit from flexible scheduling, a pension plan, and a vibrant company culture with learning opportunities and social events.

Hybrid Full time UTC+00:00 – UTC+01:00 Updated today

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*** For this role, it is important you live in commuting distance to one of our offices: Darlington, Copenhagen, Berlin or Rotterdam. ***

As our Senior Technical Advisor you'll play a key role in some of the world's most exciting renewable technology projects. We're passionate about our work and love driving innovation to shape a sustainable future. In this role, you'll help our clients with their cable projects, making sure everything runs safely, efficiently, and according to industry standards.

Anchoring Your Impact

  • You provide top notch technical advice and guidance on our projects, helping our clients forward.
  • You utilise your years of relevant experience, specifically in offshore projects, to drive innovation and optimize project outcomes.
  • You apply your academic engineering background to analyse complex problems and develop effective solutions.
  • You collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, both remotely and at client offices, to ensure seamless project execution.

You've got it

  • You have 7+ years of relevant experience in the offshore cable / pipeline installation sector.
  • Your academic engineering-level education (or similar qualification) ensures you are the go-to person in your field of expertise; always ahead of the game and constantly on the lookout for more knowledge. A big plus if you love to indulge yourself in sustainability topics.
  • Your communication skills? We value them highly. From making a difference in owner's strategies to negotiations with authorities, you know how to get your point across and communicate openly. And of course, you can also isolate yourself, put on your headphones, and dive into a challenge.
  • You like taking initiative and keep your eyes on the prize in order to achieve great results, taking every angle of the project into consideration.
  • Going the extra mile for the team? You're the first one to raise your hand.
  • When a project takes an unexpected turn, you don't panic. You quickly weigh the options, make a plan and adapt.

Why you'll love it here

  • 30 holidays on a full-time basis (and the possibility of buying more if 30 just isn't enough!)
  • Your future covered with a pension plan*
  • You own your schedule - plan your workday in the way that works best for you.
  • Our bonus scheme based on personal and company goals
  • Embrace lifelong learning with our very own Primo Academy and develop yourself a bit more every day.
  • Enjoy our special Primo culture! A BBQ to celebrate the opening of a new office, monthly Lunch & Learn sessions, Thursday afternoon drinks at the terrace or joining our running club (participation not mandatory 😉) - only this enables the excellent results we achieve.

*: (the pension scheme differs per country)

Are you a Primo? A great communicator, having the expertise and growing together - that's what we do at Primo Marine. Apply now and be part of the journey!

"My colleagues at Primo Marine have been extremely friendly, approachable and knowledgeable. It is critical to work in an environment where you can be yourself and trust your colleagues. I have found this at Primo Marine." - Femi, Senior Expert

Job requirements

* By applying you agree that Primo Marine will keep your data for future purposes, but we will never keep your data longer than necessary. *

Pay & benefits

+ Our bonus scheme based on personal and company goals
Retirement plan Paid time off Learning budget

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€49,536–70,758 annually
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About this role

Posted
4 Nov 2026
Updated
4 Nov 2026
Job type
Full time
Workplace
Hybrid
Sectors
Working hours
UTC+00:00 – UTC+01:00
Experience
Senior

About Primo Marine

Company Overview

Primo Marine

Rotterdam, Netherlands

1997

Approximately 40 employees (source: rocketreach.co). Estimated revenue of $6.8 million in recent profiles (source: creditsafe.com).

What They Do

Primo Marine specializes in subsea power cable engineering, installation, protection, and maintenance for offshore renewable energy connections, including offshore wind farms, export cables, network systems, and interconnectors. Their expertise includes cable protection systems (CPS), terminations, burial, and seabed mobility solutions (source: primo-marine.com). The company offers detailed services such as independent risk consulting through Primo Risk & Control, where they de-risk offshore cable disciplines, and acts as Owner’s Engineer for installation engineering and cable route optimization (source: energicoast.co.uk). Their target markets include offshore wind developers, insurers, lenders, installers, and transmission system operators such as Statnett and TenneT, with a strong presence in both European and Asian projects (source: offshore-energy.biz). Primo Marine stands out due to its independence, allowing them to provide impartial advice and combine in-depth knowledge with ISO 9001:2015 certification for quality management (source: primo-marine.com).

Projects & Track Record

Among the notable completed projects is the role as Owner’s Engineer for the NorNed Interconnector project for Statnett & TenneT, where Primo Marine has provided extensive knowledge of the cable system since its inception, supporting operations (source: offshore-energy.biz). Other key projects include the Gemini offshore wind farm, where they optimized cable routes, and the Galloper offshore wind farm, where they ensured optimal cable routing. Additionally, they contributed to the protection of CPS at Luchterduinen and supported the German Bundesnetzagentur with Baltic Eagle with burial and installation optimization solutions (source: energicoast.co.uk). The company has worked on over 300 projects in total, including 45+ offshore wind farms and 30+ interconnectors, with a geographical presence spanning Europe and Asia (source: primo-marine.com).

Recent Developments

In the past two years, there have been no significant announcements, contract wins, acquisitions, or mergers documented in the available sources. However, the most recent project mentions, such as Baltic Eagle and NorNed support, confirm the ongoing relevance of the company (source: energicoast.co.uk). Certifications such as ISO 9001:2015 and SAQ+ Level 3 by DNV GL remain active milestones that emphasize compliance with quality and safety (source: primo-marine.com). No specific milestones or awards for 2024-2025 have been documented in the reviewed materials.

Working At

At Primo Marine, there are positions in engineering, risk consulting, finance, and operations, with departments focusing on subsea cable installation engineering and risk management (source: primo-marine.com). The company has offices in Rotterdam, Darlington (UK), Berlin (Germany), and Copenhagen (Denmark), supporting a team of approximately 40 experts (source: rocketreach.co). The company culture emphasizes customer-oriented service, professional excellence, trust relationships, independence, and teamwork, with a flat structure that invests in team activities and shared workload (source: primo-marine.com). Specific employee benefits are not documented in public sources.

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