Senior Team Lead Plans and Arrangements

Career at Damen

About us
Hop aboard Damen Naval, the naval division of the family-owned Damen Shipyards Group, where 12,000 professionals work worldwide. Damen Naval delivers advanced naval vessels to clients all over the globe. By implementing the most innovative technological developments in practice, we continue to push the boundaries in the shipbuilding industry. You can be part of our team! Are you ready for duty?

The Role
As Senior Team Lead Plans & Arrangements, you will lead a Plans & Arrangements engineering team of approximately 15–20 engineers across multiple locations. You provide clear directions, create structures, and ensure predictable delivery throughout complex naval projects. From early engineering phases onwards, you set up a solid work breakdown and planning structure, safeguard quality, cost, and timelines, and align activities with project objectives. While you bring strong engineering insight, your focus is on people management, coordination, and decision-making. You report to the Project Manager Engineering and act as a stabilizing leadership presence within the department.

Key responsibilities

• Leading, coaching, and developing a Plans & Arrangements engineering team of 15–20 FTE across multiple locations.
• Creating structure in planning, workload distribution, and priorities, ensuring predictable delivery.
• Setting up and maintaining work breakdown structures, resource planning, and team capacity management.
• Safeguarding quality, timelines, and costs of P&A engineering deliverables throughout the project lifecycle.
• Coordinating multidisciplinary interfaces and aligning P&A activities with overall project objectives.
• Ensuring compliance with applicable rules, regulations, and Damen Naval engineering standards.
• Monitoring team performance and progress, addressing risks, and removing obstacles.
• Acting as key interface towards Project Management, other disciplines, and external engineering partners.
• Supporting production and shipyard activities on Plans & Arrangements topics when required.
• Contributing to process improvement and knowledge sharing within the department.

Skills & experience

• A technical bachelor’s or master’s degree with extensive experience in Plans & Arrangements or outfitting engineering, preferably within complex naval projects.
• Proven experience in leading larger engineering teams and managing work across multiple locations.
• Strong people management skills: coaching, decision-making, and setting clear direction.
• The ability to translate project objectives into realistic planning and team priorities.
• Sufficient technical depth to challenge content, without needing to engineer everything yourself.
• Experience working in multidisciplinary environments with internal and external stakeholders.
• Excellent references and antecedents, as a pre-employment security screening is a 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

• 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. You contribute to this growth while benefitting from the diverse development and career opportunities that our company offers. 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.