Change Coordinator Engineering

About us

Get on board with Damen Naval, along with more than 1,200 professionals based in The Netherlands, Romania, and Germany. We are the naval division of the family-owned Damen Shipyards Group which employs 12,000 professionals globally. Damen Naval designs and builds advanced naval vessels for customers all over the world. With a passion for technological innovation and sustainable solutions, we continue to push the boundaries in naval shipbuilding. You can be part of our team! Are you ready for duty?

The role

As a Change Coordinator Engineering, you play a crucial role in managing engineering changes within our naval projects. You act as the link between technical and administrative content, ensuring that all engineering changes whether initiated by customers, partners, subcontractors, suppliers, or classification societies are effectively coordinated and documented. Your role is essential in maintaining an organized and structured approach to change management within engineering, ensuring traceability and efficiency throughout the process.

Key accountabilities

As a Change Coordinator Engineering at Damen Naval, your key responsibilities will include:

• Support and suggest engineering change identification and initiation.
• Manage the end-to-end processing of requirements, documents, and configuration changes.
• Ensure correct assignment of change management levels and execution of impact analyses.
• Monitor progress and follow up on open changes with responsible action holders.
• Coordinate changes affecting multiple teams within Engineering.
• Initiate, implement, and communicate change execution plans.
• Ensure traceability of approved changes into the product configuration.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of department processes and knowledge transfer.
• Comply with HSSEQ / IMED policies and procedures.

Skills & experience

To excel as the Change Coordinator Engineering, you should possess the following qualifications and qualities:

• Bachelor’s degree (EQF6) in a technical field with 3-5 years of relevant experience, or Master’s degree (EQF7) with at least 1 year of relevant experience.
• Experience with naval engineering concepts and practices; background in naval architecture is desirable.
• Knowledge of configuration management and change control processes.
• Familiarity with PDM/PLM systems.
• Understanding of engineering processes and interfaces between disciplines.
• Strong administrative skills within a complex technical environment.
• Strong influencing skills to ensure collaboration across multiple stakeholders.
• Detail-oriented with a proactive mindset.
• Excellent command of the English language and Dutch language.
• 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.
• Working from home policy and other benefits including a bicycle plan and company fitness.

Why Damen?

Damen has 35 shipyards on five different continents and operates in more than 100 countries. We are still growing and that gives you options. You contribute to this growth while benefitting from the diverse development and career opportunities that our company offers. We will continue to challenge you. With our extensive portfolio of products and solutions you will never get bored and never stop learning. We offer you a world of possibilities. Working at Damen means contributing to the highest quality in shipbuilding, with an eye to the future and future generations. We want to make the world a better place by becoming the most sustainable maritime solution provider. For that, we need you. Become part of our family.

About Us

We are Damen. We’re a family company that has been building ships for almost 100 years. However, our focus is not on the past, however – we’re looking forward. Our ambition is to become the most sustainable and connected maritime solutions provider there is. To achieve this, we combine digital technology with our philosophy of standardised shipbuilding to offer a portfolio of services that takes care of vessels throughout the entire lifecycle. Working at Damen offers the best of several worlds. Active in more than 100 countries, with over 30 shipyards, we are internationally renowned for quality. And we are still growing, still innovating. Which means we will continue to challenge you. You will never stop learning, and you will never get bored – we promise you that. We offer you an ocean of possibilities. Join our family.