Adoption & Implementation Specialist

Shape the future of Production Engineering through technology adoption and continuous improvement. In this role, you bridge the gap between engineers and technology, ensuring digital solutions are not only developed, but truly embraced. By driving adoption, optimizing processes, and translating user needs into actionable improvements, you help maximize the value of Production Engineering applications across the organization.

The position

At Van Oord, digital applications play a key role in enabling efficient, standardized and future-proof ways of working. To ensure existing applications continue to deliver maximum value, the Production Engineering Application Management team is looking for an Adoption & Implementation Specialist. This role is essential in connecting users, stakeholders and development teams.

The Production Engineering Application Management team supports the Production Engineering team within the Tendering & Engineering department. The team is responsible for developing, supporting and improving the applications used by Production Engineers in the Production Engineering landscape. Production Engineers are responsible for estimating and optimizing the execution duration of projects, focused on the main assets.

Your impact

As an Adoption & Implementation Specialist, you are responsible for the functionality, performance, and day-to-day effectiveness of existing applications within the Production Engineering landscape, ensuring they reliably support business processes, including production estimating and support activities.

Acting as the bridge between Production Engineers and development teams, you translate user and stakeholder needs into clear, actionable input, ensuring solutions meet business requirements and are successfully embedded in daily operations.

You actively drive the adoption of new tools, features, and ways of working, guiding engineers and their leads through change while promoting sustainable use and continuous optimization. In doing so, you strengthen alignment between users, discipline managers, and development teams, ensuring effective collaboration and that feedback is consistently translated into concrete improvements.

• Drive adoption and change management by guiding users and stakeholders in implementing new tools, features, and ways of working, including onboarding and training
• Act as the primary interface between the Vopress team and users, translating needs, feedback, and developments in both directions
• Coordinate testing activities by performing initial validation of sprint deliverables and facilitating user acceptance testing
• Manage and translate feedback from testing and adoption into prioritized improvements together with development teams
• Provide functional and strategic input for the continuous development of applications, including defining and documenting requirements where needed
• Support and optimize business processes by improving and standardizing production workflows in alignment with the Vopress suite
• Enable knowledge sharing and system effectiveness by supporting knowledge management and contributing to refinements in business logic within existing products

Your workplace

You will be part of the Production Engineering Application Management team in the T&E Shared Service Center.

About you

You are a proactive and structured professional who enjoys working at the intersection of business and technology. You have a natural ability to connect with stakeholders at different levels and translate their needs into practical, effective solutions. With a strong drive for continuous improvement, you take ownership, guide others through change, and ensure new tools and processes are successfully adopted. You are eager to deepen your understanding of Production Engineering processes and feel comfortable working in a complex, evolving environment.

We are looking for someone who:

• Has 3-5 years of experience in adoption, implementation, or application ownership within a complex organization.
• Possesses strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to align diverse groups and communicate effectively in English.
• Can translate business needs into technical solutions and technical concepts into practical business outcomes.
• Demonstrates a proactive, structured, and analytical mindset, with a focus on continuous improvement and change adoption.
• Is eager to learn about Production Engineering and related business processes.
• Has experience with Excel and basic knowledge of Python, including Jupyter Notebooks.
• Holds a BSc or MSc degree, preferably in civil, maritime, offshore engineering, or a related field, and is legally entitled to work in the Netherlands.

We offer

We offer you a position in which you will have an important contribution to our mission "building a better world for future generations". In addition, we offer you:

• Travel allowance (€0.31 per km) and home office allowance (€2,45 per day)
• 32 leave days per year
• Variable bonus
• Pension scheme
• Collective health insurance (optional)
• Flexible working from home policy, 2 days a week when working on a full-time basis
• Extensive learning and personal development possibilities, including a wide range of online courses via Goodhabitz
• You can join communities, like Young Van Oord, Van Oord Women and the Van Oord staff association
• We organise several sport events, e.g. winter sport, weekend of sailing, cycling and a motorcycle tour

"You come up with something at your desk and then see it actually working on a ship. That’s incredibly rewarding."

Thomasz Engineer Production Automation