Design Engineer Marine Engineering

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 the Design Engineer Marine Engineering at Damen Naval, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the platform systems of our state-of-the-art naval vessels are complying with all strict requirements. Examples of these systems are propulsion-, mechanical-handling-, HVAC- or firefighting systems. From within our research and development and innovation department, you work in development project teams where you provide innovative marine engineering design solutions and translate them into specifications for shipbuilding projects teams.

Key accountabilities

As the Design Engineer Marine Engineering, your key responsibilities will include:

• Perform design and development activities: execute requirements analysis, concept generation, general system architecture (single-line diagrams), weight and power estimations, propulsion- and energy plant configurations, and main ship balances.
• Evaluate and asses new marine engineering concepts, including PoC’s and report findings accordingly.
• Produce technical documents, specifications for equipment, reports, and make presentations to visualize the calculations, concepts, and the reporting data.
• Ensure timely and effective communication with all relevant stakeholders and internal departments for optimized project results.

Skills & experience

To excel as the Design Engineer Marine Engineering, you should possess the following qualifications and qualities:

• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in marine- or mechanical engineering, maritime or other relevant technical studies.
• At least three years of experience in design, proposal, and development practices in the (naval) shipbuilding, maritime or offshore industry.
• Proven success of delivered innovations within the marine engineering field of expertise.
• Familiarity with relevant CAD and calculation software.
• Good command of the English preferably also Dutch 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 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.

Other

Are you interested in the position of Design Engineer Marine Engineering, kindly submit your application along with your CV and motivation letter, along with an indication of:

• Your (preferred) monthly gross salary based on fulltime work.
• Availability (fulltime / part-time / number of hours).
• Notice period / possible starting date.

For more information about the vacancy or Damen Naval, please visit the Damen Naval website, the Damen Naval Career website or call the Corporate Recruitment department on +31 (0)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-employment and security screening and investigation form part of the recruitment process.

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