Senior Quality Engineer

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At Damen Workboats, our goal is to develop, design, and construct a portfolio of tugs, high-speed craft, fast and city ferries, and dredgers or workboats in the most effective and efficient manner, primarily based on series production of smart-customized standard designs.

Damen Workboats offers a range of innovative, standardized, and smart-customized designs. These fulfill current and developing market demands, with well-balanced levels of quality, service, price, and delivery time, thereby providing optimal solutions for our clients.

Quality of our products and services is of utmost importance. Our mission is to deliver sustainable value to our clients, with reliable and durable maritime solutions. Development of our vessels results from customer focus, market orientation, and technical know-how. Building our vessels focuses on operational excellence, reliability, quality, sustainability, safety, and doing things first-time-right.

Damen stands for entrepreneurship, craftsmanship, stewardship, and fellowship; these values are reflected in our products and in how we work at Workboats. We operate as one team and stimulate everyone at Workboats to constantly improve products, processes, and personal skills.

The Role: Senior Quality Engineer

In your role as Senior Quality Engineer, you will be responsible for defining risk mitigation and compliance review methods in the development of E&A in our vessels, focusing on RAMS (reliability, availability, maintainability, and security) during the Life Cycle.

This objective expert role is new within Damen Workboats and is of utmost importance considering the changeover to a more sustainable/electrical product portfolio and developments in automation.

Key Accountabilities

• Setting up Design Assurance (Compliance & Design review) Process in the field of E&A
• Supporting and coaching projects and their engineers on the quality aspects of their deliverables
• Develop, implement, and govern standard risk management tools (i.e., D&P-FMEA’s)
• Assure proper supplier selection based on provided performance of new and existing suppliers to support design and development, and drive supplier improvement efforts
• Effectively lead problem-solving tools/methodology
• Drive for continuous improvement. Facilitate engineers, yards to find root causes of technical issues and translate them into lessons learned. Enable process owners to translate lessons learned into guidelines, design rules, and/or process improvements.
• Collaborate with the quality organization in operations and field service areas

Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (electrical, automation, industrial)
• Expert experience in manufacturing or supply chain management in a complex and dynamic technical environment
• Expert level in D&P-FMEA’s (or willing to learn/develop)
• Green or Black Belt / Lean Six Sigma experience (RCA/8D methodology)
• Self-directed, confident, analytical-logical fact-based thinking and a people’s person

Good oral and written command of both Dutch and English;

• Enthusiasm and good communication and presentation skills
• Can act at one moment as a coach/trainer and at another as a judge based on facts
• Able to travel internationally on a regular basis

What We Offer

We want to make sure you are a successful Senior Quality Engineer, so we will support you to develop yourself in this position. We are a growing organization where innovation is the driving force. Entrepreneurship is in our DNA, and that's why we continue to grow and innovate and offer plenty of opportunities. All you have to do is grab them.

• Personal guidance, freedom, varied work, and a work environment where your opinion counts
• An excellent benefits package tailored to your experience and education level
• A dynamic international working environment focusing on technology and innovation
• An open, informal, no-nonsense culture with short communication lines
• An active social environment in terms of business culture, events, and sports

An assessment and pre-employment screening could be part of the selection procedure.