Engineer Systems Requirements

Join our family and become part of Damen Naval, where over 1,200 professionals across The Netherlands, Romania, and Germany collaborate within the naval division of the family-owned Damen Shipyards Group, employing 12,000 professionals worldwide. Damen Naval is renowned for designing and building advanced naval vessels with a strong focus on technological innovation and sustainable solutions. Are you ready for duty?

The Role

Damen Naval is currently seeking a skilled (Senior) Engineer Systems Requirements to join on a temporary basis, focusing on capturing and managing customer requirements for a naval shipbuilding project. Reporting to the Manager Systems Engineering and operationally to the Project Manager Engineering/Team Leader Engineering, you'll contribute to the establishment of clear specifications for processes and products, crucial for our engineering teams and subcontracted work packages.

Key Accountabilities

• Capturing customer requirements using the requirements management tool (DOORS).
• Ensuring the establishment of requirements baselines and traceable changes.
• Analyzing, grouping, and decomposing requirements to facilitate clear functional and non-functional specifications.
• Participating in making requirements smart, consistent, and resolving conflicting requirements.
• Facilitating proactive communication with project colleagues.
• Structuring requirements for specific work packages, internally or through outsourcing/subcontracting.
• Monitoring the development process and providing reports on requirement status to internal stakeholders.
• Conducting systems verification activities to collect objective evidence of compliance.

Skills & Experience

• Bachelor or Master degree and knowledge of Systems Engineering principles, especially in Requirements Management, with experience in DOORS considered a plus.
• Affinity with System Engineering processes, including deriving requirements based on operational scenarios.
• Experience or willingness to work in international development projects within a matrix organization structure.
• Strong common sense, logical thinking, and proficiency with digital tools.
• Strong project-based work ethic, taking ownership and responsibility for collective objectives.
• Effective coordination and management skills in technical/engineering activities, with clear reporting abilities.
• Excellent command of English is required; proficiency in German is highly beneficial, and Dutch mastery is advantageous.
• Excellent references as a pre-employment security screening is a standard part of the recruitment procedure.
• Permanent EU citizenship and passport are both 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) or as a freelancer (ZZP), we offer:

• 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.

Application Process

Are you interested in this interim position? Kindly submit your application along with your CV and motivation letter. Please state your preferred agreement, secondment (detachering) or freelance (zzp), along with an indication of:

• Secondment: your monthly gross salary based on full-time work.
• Freelance: your hourly rate.