Systems Engineer Marine Systems - Systems Architect (Interim)

Vlissingen, Zeeland, Netherlands

• Category: Systems Engineering

Description

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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 of the shipbuilding industry. You can be part of our team! Are you ready for duty?

The role

As the interim Systems Engineer Marine Systems- Systems Architect at Damen Naval, you will ensure project processes comply with contracts and regulations, oversee design and engineering deliverables, and safeguard design integrity. You will bridge teams, foster collaboration, and guarantee adherence to high-level functional and technical requirements.

Key accountabilities

In this role, your responsibilities will include:

• Leading interdisciplinary design reviews, verifying engineering documents.
• Driving technical excellence through requirement management and solution development.
• Analyze and assess technical requirements related to the integration of marine systems, products, and processes.
• Ensure technical compliance of engineering documents, including traceability of requirements to contracts.
• Drive multi-disciplinary collaboration to deliver optimal solutions aligned with project goals.
• Oversee customer and classification body reviews, addressing comments to achieve agreement on requirements.
• Perform design verification and contribute to system testing, including FAT, HAT, and SAT processes.
• Participate in milestone meetings and ensure project deliverables meet schedule and quality targets.
• Expedite internal and external project contributions, ensuring timely engineering documentation delivery.

Skills & experience

We are looking for candidates with the following qualifications:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in engineering or related discipline combined with a minimum of five years of hands-on experience with engineers, suppliers, subcontractors, and project managers in shipbuilding or related industries.
• Minimum five years' experience in shipbuilding or a related industry with expertise in Marine Systems engineering.
• Proven project management capabilities, a strong technical background in Marine Systems, and experience in complex system manufacturing or subcontracting.
• Proficiency in English both written and verbal and German language skills are a big plus.
• 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 value your expertise and commitment. As a temporary member of our team, you will receive:

• A competitive salary aligned with permanent staff.
• Travel allowance of €0.23 per kilometer.
• Flexibility to work from home up to two days a week.
• Opportunities to work on challenging and innovative projects in the naval sector.

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

If you are interested, please submit your application with the following details:

• Your CV and motivational letter.
• Indication of your expected gross monthly salary (based on full-time work).
• Your availability (full-time/part-time and number of hours).
• Your notice period and preferred start date.

For more information about the vacancy or Damen Naval, please visit the Damen Naval website, the Damen Naval Career website or contact the Corporate Recruitment department via +31 118 485 000.

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.

Acquisition and introduction of candidates without a formal request is not appreciated and they will not be considered.

Company

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DAMEN

Damen is an international shipyard group but at its heart, there is still a family company. We operate in every niche market where we see an opportunity to improve, innovate or invest. In everything we develop, we always aim for what our customers need and what they wish for. That counts for our building activities as well as our services. We listen carefully to our customers and we invest a great deal in innovation, research and development. That’s why we’re simply able to build better boats.

Our Mission & Vision

At Damen, it's all about ships - it's what we do, it's who we are. We design them, we build them, we service them. We like them! We have a vision and we are on a mission. You can read about them here, in our global Vision & Mission statement.

A Family History

In 1927 Damen was established by two brothers. Now, Damen Shipyards has a leading position in shipbuilding with more than 6,000 employees and a presence in 35 countries. Damen is a multinational company that has never lost its family values or its deep respect for its maritime heritage.

How We Work

Damen’s unique shipbuilding concept is based on what our customers want: the best quality, proven designs, short delivery time, low maintenance and excellent resale value. The result is a work method with the perfect balance between standardisation and custom-built vessels. And of course we offer a broad range of customer services.

Global Presence

Damen is a globally operating company, but we are never far away. Our customers always have one single point of contact. Our global presence means that we are always able to build near the delivery destination. And that leads to significant cost savings and guarantees a rapid response.