Data Engineer VBA

Join Damen Naval as a (Junior) Data Engineer VBA

Get on board with Damen Naval, part of the family-owned Damen Shipyards Group, which employs 12,000 professionals globally. We design and build advanced naval vessels for customers all over the world, pushing the boundaries of technological innovation and sustainable solutions in naval shipbuilding.

The Role

Damen Naval is seeking a motivated (Junior) Data Engineer VBA for an interim position. This entry-level role is an excellent opportunity for recent graduates or Junior professionals to contribute to our innovative projects. You will be involved in processing data using Visual Basic for Application (VBA) skills in Microsoft Excel, ensuring data integrity for reports or data entry into our advanced PDM/PLM tool, 3DEXPERIENCE (3DX).

Key Accountabilities

• Creating solutions using VBA in Microsoft Excel to process, organize, and validate engineering data, automating checks and validations to ensure data completeness and correctness.
• Providing visibility on missing or incorrect data for dataset maturation before submission to 3DX.
• Developing macros to perform repetitive tasks automatically.
• Analyzing large datasets and maintaining complex models using VBA scripts.
• Ensuring data integrity and participating in reviews that depend on your data and reports.
• Identifying and reporting data inconsistencies to relevant stakeholders.
• Supporting teams working across different systems and components in enriching their data.
• Assisting team members in interpreting data from subcontractors and accessing needed information.

Skills & Experience

To excel as an interim (Junior) Data Engineer VBA at Damen Naval, you should bring:

• Secondary vocational (MBO-4) or bachelor degree in a relevant discipline.
• Experience and skills in data processing or analysis using Microsoft Excel and Microsoft VBA, with affinity for PDM/PLM tools and/or other large database applications preferred.
• Exceptional attention to detail and a proactive approach to completing tasks on time.
• A solid drive and motivation to work with large datasets in Excel to achieve high-quality datasets for military ship design and development.
• Strong command of the English language, both written and verbal. Proficiency in Dutch and/or German is a plus.
• Good communication skills to work in a large project team with people of many different nationalities.
• Excellent references as a pre-employment security screening is a standard part of the recruitment procedure.
• Permanent EU citizenship and passport required.

What We Offer

At Damen Naval, we value our interim team members and strive for a positive and successful collaboration. As an interim professional on a secondment basis (detachering), we offer the following conditions:

• An attractive rate, ensuring at least equal pay to permanent staff.
• Travel allowance of 23 cents per kilometre.
• Flexibility to work partially from home.
• Challenging and innovative projects.