Integration Engineer HVAC-R Systems

Get on board with Damen Naval, a part of the family-owned Damen Shipyards Group, which employs over 12,000 professionals globally. Damen Naval designs and builds advanced naval vessels with a passion for technological innovation and sustainable solutions. Are you ready for duty?

The Role

Damen Naval is seeking a highly skilled Integration Engineer HVAC-R Systems for an interim position at our headquarters in Vlissingen, Netherlands. This role is crucial for managing and integrating heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, and refrigeration (HVAC-R) systems on board our ships. From initial proposals to final delivery, you will collaborate closely with a dedicated team of engineers to ensure top-tier engineering output.

Key Accountabilities

• Ensure full compliance with all customer and statutory body requirements.
• Integrate delivered components and systems into ship designs in collaboration with internal departments, subcontractors, statutory bodies, and owners.
• Acquire and review supplier engineering information and documentation, including mechanical drawings, schematics, calculations, and electrical diagrams.
• Update the engineering database with purchase orders, parts, meta-data, and documentation.
• Perform technical calculations for design validation and assess subcontractors' designs.
• Create technical and functional specification documents.
• Supervise subcontractors to ensure all contractual obligations are met and track any deviations from contracts.
• Outsource detailed engineering work in a 3D environment and verify the output.
• Verify technical performance of products and systems, inspect equipment at supplier premises, and conduct FATs.
• Provide technical support for commissioning activities and maintain strong relationships with technical representatives of suppliers and subcontractors.
• Organize design checks, reviews, and risk analyses to ensure the required quality.

Skills & Experience

To excel as Integration Engineer HVAC-R Systems, you should possess the following qualifications and qualities:

• Bachelor or Master degree in HVAC engineering or equivalent proven work experience.
• At least two years of experience with HVAC-R systems and electrical/automation matters related to HVAC-R equipment in ships, offshore, or industrial installations.
• Experience working with statutory bodies and managing third-party vendors and subcontractors.
• Proficiency in both Dutch and English, written and verbal.

Key competencies include:

• Customer orientation
• Budget management
• Planning and quality awareness
• Teamwork
• Results orientation
• Flexibility
• Persuasiveness
• Initiative
• Effective listening

Excellent references antecedents as a pre-employment security screening is standard part of the recruitment procedure.

Permanent EU citizenship and passport are both required. Candidates with 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 our interim team members and strive for a positive and successful collaboration. As an interim professional on secondment basis or as a freelancer, we offer you the following conditions:

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

If you are interested in this interim assignment for Integration Engineer HVAC-R Systems, kindly submit your application along with your CV and motivation letter. Please state your preferred agreement, secondment or freelance, along with an indication of:

• Secondment: your monthly gross salary based on full-time work.
• Freelance: your hourly rate excluding VAT.
• Availability (full-time / part-time).
• Notice period and/or preferred start date.