Team Lead Design Control

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 Team Lead Design Control at Damen Naval, you will oversee the Design Control aspect throughout the engineering and production processes of naval vessel projects. This encompasses a wide range of critical aspects such as hydrostatics, hydrodynamics, weight control, regulatory compliance, noise management, welding and preservation, signatures, and vulnerability. From the pre-Basic Engineering phase to project execution, you will lead a dedicated team and ensure quality, timely delivery, and effective reporting to the Project Manager Engineering.

Key accountabilities

As Team Lead Design Control, your responsibilities will include:

• Leading and coaching a medium to small Design Control team throughout the basic and detailed engineering phases of specialized complex shipbuilding projects.
• Managing day-to-day operations and short- and medium-term planning of the team.
• Monitoring and controlling the manhour budget, supporting progress reports, and delivering high-quality engineering work within schedule and budget.
• Facilitating design reviews.
• Coordinating technical support or commissioning activities for contracted projects.
• Ensuring compliance with all applicable requirements and specifications.
• Contributing to the development, transfer, and retention of knowledge, as well as continuous evaluation and improvement of processes within the department.

Skills & experience

To excel as Team Lead Design Control, you should possess the following qualifications and qualities:

• Bachelor or Master's degree in a technical field with a minimum of five years of relevant experience.
• Knowledge of and experience with ship design, particularly complex naval ships.
• Proven track record of realizing structured work packages within budget and schedule, adhering to good engineering practices and statutory requirements.
• Proficiency in both Dutch and English, both written and verbal.
• Key competencies: customer orientation, teamwork, result and quality orientation, behavioural flexibility, leadership, decisiveness, planning, organizing, initiative, and coaching.
• Excellent references antecedents as a pre-employment security screening is standard part of the recruitment procedure.
• Permanent EU citizenship and passport are both required and candidates with NL/EU (work) visa or with both an EU and non-EU nationality and/or passport are not eligible in accordance with 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.
• Working from home policy and other 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.