Engineer Marine Piping Systems (Interim)

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
Damen Naval is seeking an experienced Engineer Marine Piping Systems (Interim) to join our team in Vlissingen. In this pivotal role, you will play a key part in the design and engineering of advanced piping systems for high-end naval vessels. You will be responsible for analysing specifications, setting up and modelling engineering packages, and ensuring the integration of piping systems meets the highest standards of quality, safety, and efficiency. Your expertise will be crucial in supporting the successful completion of complex maritime projects.

Key accountabilities

In this role, your responsibilities will include:

• Analyse and Assess Specifications: Review and evaluate technical requirements for piping systems, ensuring integration aligns with project needs, regulatory standards, and quality benchmarks.
• Engineering Package Development: Set up and model basic engineering packages for piping systems in a 3D environment, adhering to Damen Naval engineering standards and regulations.
• Detailed Engineering and Production Support: Develop detailed engineering packages and production information based on the basic design, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Update engineering packages as needed, providing technical advice and support to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Multi-Disciplinary Interaction: Engage with various disciplines to ensure that piping solutions are optimized for the overall project.
• Project Design Reviews: Identify potential issues, suggest improvements, and contribute to design reviews to ensure project success.
• Compliance and Continuous Improvement: Ensure all designs meet applicable requirements and contribute to the ongoing development and retention of knowledge within the department.

Skills & experience

We are looking for candidates with the following qualifications:

• Relevant technical Bachelor or Master degree combined with at three years relevant experience in piping systems engineering, ideally gained within shipbuilding or offshore installations.
• Proficiency in 2D and 3D CAD software, with hands-on experience in modelling and designing complex piping systems.
• Experience in working on high-end vessels, managing complex projects, and ensuring compliance with statutory bodies and regulations.
• Good command of the English language both written and verbal.
• Excellent references antecedents as a pre-employment security screening is standard part of the recruitment procedure.
• Permanent EU citizenship and passport are both required. Candidates with 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 value our temporary team members and strive for a positive and successful collaboration. As a temporary professional on secondment basis, we offer you the following conditions:

• An attractive salary aligned with permanent staff.
• Travel allowance of 23 cents per kilometre.
• Flexibility to work from home up to two days a week.
• Challenging and innovative projects.

Other
This temporary assignment is exclusively offered on a secondment (detachering) or temporary employment contract basis. Freelance or ZZP agreements are not considered due to current Dutch legislation.

Please note that due to the military nature of our projects, only candidates who have permanent EU nationality can be considered for vacancies at Damen Naval. Unfortunately, we are not allowed to process candidates who (also) have a non-EU passport or nationality.

A pre-assignment and security screening and investigation form part of the recruitment process.

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.