Senior Automation Engineer

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About us

Get on board with Damen Naval, along with more than 1,200 professionals based in The Netherlands, Romania, and Germany. We are the naval division of the family-owned Damen Shipyards Group which employs 12,000 professionals globally. Damen Naval designs and builds advanced naval vessels for customers all over the world. With a passion for technological innovation and sustainable solutions, we continue to push the boundaries in naval shipbuilding. You can be part of our team! Are you ready for duty?

The role

As a Senior Automation Engineer at Damen Naval, you will play a major role in ensuring that state-of-the-art naval vessels are built and commissioned with fully operational automated systems, compliant with strict regulations and requirements. You develop the automation concept of complex processes, encompassing a wide range of systems onboard the vessel. Depending on the vessel’s configuration, your automation design could encompass a host of strategic defensive and deterring systems. Your design has state-of-the-art automation functionality, allowing the crew to control and monitor all the systems in the ship. You work and collaborate according to the V-model in our 3DExperience engineering environment, while basic and detailed designs will be thoroughly reviewed, tested, and verified throughout both the design as well as the build phase. The culmination of your work is the launch of a new naval vessel, ready to defend our freedom across the world!

Key accountabilities

As Senior Engineer Automation your key responsibilities will include:

• Develop the functional descriptions and other basic engineering documents and drawings of the automated processes of the ship’s systems.
• Develop and maintain specification documents of all automation components and installation processes.
• Write detailed test- and validation plans to ensure compliance with Class regulations and to meet customer requirements during virtual testing (simulations) and real-world testing (FAT, HAT, SAT).
• Manage vendors and subcontractors to get their timely contribution to the project.
• Review vendors and subcontractors design and implement this in the vessel's design.
• Develop and describe standards and working methods for detailed engineering and commissioning.
• Provide support in proposal stages by developing conceptual designs of system automation.
• Offer technical support or commissioning activities to projects under contract.

Skills & experience

To excel as Senior Engineer Automation, you should possess the following qualifications and qualities:

• 5+ years of experience designing and installing complex automation systems (PLC/SCADA), preferably in maritime, offshore, or industrial installations.
• Professional experience working in complex projects, comprised of multidisciplinary sub-teams and multiple suppliers and subcontractors.
• Experience working in a model-based system engineering environment (MBSE) according to the V-model.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Technical Automation, Electrical Engineering, or other relevant discipline.
• Excellent references antecedents 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 highly value our employees, and we will support your professional and personal development. We also provide our employees with:

• A competitive salary and 8% holiday pay.
• 27 holidays and 13 ADV days.
• Travel allowance of 23 cents per kilometre.
• PME-pension arrangement with an employer contribution of 60%.
• Profit sharing based on company results.
• Working from home policy and other benefits including a bicycle plan and company fitness.