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About us

Hop aboard Damen Naval; the naval division of the family-owned Damen Shipyards Group, where 12,000 professionals work worldwide. Damen Naval delivers advanced naval vessels to clients all over the globe. By implementing the most innovative technological developments in practice, we continue to push the boundaries of the shipbuilding industry. You can be part of our team! Are you ready for duty?

The role

As the interim Systems Engineer Marine Systems- Systems Architect at Damen Naval, you will ensure project processes comply with contracts and regulations, oversee design and engineering deliverables, and safeguard design integrity. You will bridge teams, foster collaboration, and guarantee adherence to high-level functional and technical requirements.

Key accountabilities

In this role, your responsibilities will include:

• Leading interdisciplinary design reviews, verifying engineering documents.
• Driving technical excellence through requirement management and solution development.
• Analyze and assess technical requirements related to the integration of marine systems, products, and processes.
• Ensure technical compliance of engineering documents, including traceability of requirements to contracts.
• Drive multi-disciplinary collaboration to deliver optimal solutions aligned with project goals.
• Oversee customer and classification body reviews, addressing comments to achieve agreement on requirements.
• Perform design verification and contribute to system testing, including FAT, HAT, and SAT processes.
• Participate in milestone meetings and ensure project deliverables meet schedule and quality targets.
• Expedite internal and external project contributions, ensuring timely engineering documentation delivery.

Skills & experience

We are looking for candidates with the following qualifications:

• Bachelor or Master degree in engineering or related discipline combined with a minimum of five years of hands-on experience with engineers, suppliers, subcontractors, and project managers in shipbuilding or related industries.
• Minimum five years experience in shipbuilding or a related industry with expertise in Marine Systems engineering.
• Proven project management capabilities, a strong technical background in Marine Systems, and experience in complex system manufacturing or subcontracting.
• Proficiency in English both written and verbal and German language skills are a big plus.
• Excellent references antecedents as a pre-employment security screening is standard part of the recruitment procedure.
• Permanent EU citizenship and passport are both required and candidates with NL/EU (work) visa or with both an EU and non-EU nationality and/or passport are not eligible in accordance with the requirements imposed by the military nature of our projects.

What we offer

At Damen Naval, we highly value our employees, and we will support your professional and personal development. We also provide our employees with:

• A competitive salary and 8% holiday pay.
• 27 holidays and 13 ADV days.
• Travel allowance of 23 cents per kilometre.
• PME-pension arrangement with an employer contribution of 60%.
• Profit sharing based on company results.
• Flexibility to work from home up to two days a week.
• Additional benefits including a bicycle plan and company fitness.
  
   

Application & information

Are you interested in this position, please submit your application including your CV and cover letter, along with an indication of:

• Your (preferred) monthly gross salary based on fulltime work.
• Availability (fulltime / part-time / number of hours).
• Notice period / possible starting date.

For more information about this vacancy or Damen Naval, please visit the Damen Naval website, the Damen Naval Career website or contact the Corporate Recruitment department via +31 118 485 000.

Please note that due to the military nature of our projects, only candidates who have permanent EU nationality can be considered for vacancies at Damen Naval. Unfortunately, we are not allowed to process candidates who (also) have a non-EU passport or nationality.

A pre-employment and security screening and investigation form part of the recruitment process.

Acquisition and introduction of candidates without a formal request is not appreciated and they will not be considered.

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