Coordinator Configuration Changes

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 Coordinator Configuration Changes, you will be at the core of the Configuration Management process of Damen Naval, ensuring smooth coordination between technical and administrative aspects. You will play a key role in overseeing change management activities, ensuring requirements are clearly documented, analysed, and implemented with minimal disruption. You will function as the link between customers, partners, subcontractors, suppliers, and classification societies, ensuring that all changes are managed effectively from initiation to completion.

Key Accountabilities

As Coordinator Configuration Changes your key responsibilities will include:

• Initiate, document, and oversee engineering changes, ensuring accuracy and completeness.
• Perform impact analyses and verify the appropriate change management levels.
• Monitor progress, facilitate communication, and coordinate between stakeholders.
• Organize and lead Change Board meetings, documenting decisions and action points.
• Develop and oversee change implementation plans, ensuring clear execution and communication.
• Finalize and close out changes post-implementation and verification.
• Provide support to the document control team as needed.

Skills & Experience

As Coordinator Configuration Changes you need to have:

• Bachelor or Master degree, with a strong inclination towards administrative tasks in a complex technical environment.
• A proactive and structured approach, with a drive to complete tasks efficiently and support colleagues effectively.
• Expertise in naval engineering concepts and practices.
• Solid knowledge of configuration management and change control processes.
• Experience in handling administrative tasks in a PDM system for complex products and projects.
• The ability to manage and interpret data from multiple applications and sources.
• Strong attention to detail, precision, discipline, social sensitivity, resilience, and customer orientation.
• Excellent command of both Dutch and English, with proficiency in German considered advantageous.
• Excellent references, as a security screening is part of the hiring process.
• Permanent EU citizenship and passport are both required. Candidates with EU (work) visa or with (also) a non-EU nationality and/or passport are not eligible given the requirements imposed by the military nature of our projects.

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.
• Flexibility to work from home up to two days a week.
• Additional benefits including a bicycle plan and company fitness.

Why Damen?

Damen has 35 shipyards on five different continents and operates in more than 100 countries. We are still growing and that gives you options. You contribute to this growth while benefitting from the diverse development and career opportunities that our company offers. We will continue to challenge you. With our extensive portfolio of products and solutions you will never get bored and never stop learning. We offer you a world of possibilities. Working at Damen means contributing to the highest quality in shipbuilding, with an eye to the future and future generations. We want to make the world a better place by becoming the most sustainable maritime solution provider. For that, we need you. Become part of our family.

About Us

We are Damen. We’re a family company that has been building ships for almost 100 years. However, our focus is not on the past, however – we’re looking forward. Our ambition is to become the most sustainable and connected maritime solutions provider there is. To achieve this, we combine digital technology with our philosophy of standardised shipbuilding to offer a portfolio of services that takes care of vessels throughout the entire lifecycle. Working at Damen offers the best of several worlds. Active in more than 100 countries, with over 30 shipyards, we are internationally renowned for quality. And we are still growing, still innovating. Which means we will continue to challenge you. You will never stop learning, and you will never get bored – we promise you that. We offer you an ocean of possibilities. Join our family.