Systems Engineer Marine Systems - Systems Architect (Interim)

Career at Damen

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.
• Analyzing and assessing technical requirements related to the integration of marine systems, products, and processes.
• Ensuring technical compliance of engineering documents, including traceability of requirements to contracts.
• Driving multi-disciplinary collaboration to deliver optimal solutions aligned with project goals.
• Overseeing customer and classification body reviews, addressing comments to achieve agreement on requirements.
• Performing design verification and contributing to system testing, including FAT, HAT, and SAT processes.
• Participating in milestone meetings and ensuring project deliverables meet schedule and quality targets.
• Expediting 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 a 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 of 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; German language skills are a big plus.
• Excellent references and antecedents, as a pre-employment security screening is a standard part of the recruitment procedure.
• Permanent EU citizenship and passport are both required. 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 value your expertise and commitment. As a temporary member of our team, you will receive:

• A competitive salary aligned with permanent staff.
• Travel allowance of €0.23 per kilometre.
• Flexibility to work from home up to two days a week.
• Opportunities to work on challenging and innovative projects in the naval sector.

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-assignment and security screening and investigation form part of the recruitment process.

Why Damen?

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.