Senior Quality Engineer

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About us

At **Damen Workboats** our goal is to develop, design, and construct a portfolio of tugs, high-speed craft, fast and city ferries, 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 for Damen Workboats. **Our mission** is to deliver sustainable value to our clients, with reliable and durable maritime solutions. Development of our vessels is the result of customer focus, market orientation, and technical know-how. Building of 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 we stimulate everyone at Workboats to constantly improve products, processes, and personal skills.

The role

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. Besides this, defining, analyzing, monitoring/reporting, and guiding the Quality control methods and performance of these phases. This ensures that risks are mitigated in a controlled manner and leads to continuous improvement throughout all the product phases. The work field is based within our Platform team E&A. This objective expert role is new within Damen Workboats and of utmost importance considering the changeover to a more Sustainable/electrical product portfolio and the developments in Automation. **Key accountabilities** In this role you will be:

• 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
• Developing, implementing, and governing standard risk management tools (i.e., D&P-FMEA’s)
• Assuring proper supplier selection based on provided performance of new and existing suppliers to support design and development, and to drive supplier improvement efforts
• Effectively leading problem-solving tools/methodology
• Driving for continuous improvement
• Facilitating engineers and yards to find root causes of technical issues and translate them into lessons learned
• Collaborating with the quality organization in operations and field service areas

Skills & experience

To be successful in this role you bring:

• 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 people’s person
• Good oral and written command of both Dutch and English
• Enthusiasm and good communication and presentation skills
• Ability to act as a coach/trainer at one moment and a judge based on facts at another
• 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, innovate, and offer plenty of opportunities. We offer you:

• 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.

**Recruiter:** Eric Atuahene Email: eric.atuahene@damen.com