Systems Engineer Marine Systems - Systems Architect (Interim)

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Systems Engineer Marine Systems - Systems Architect (Interim)

ABOUT US

Get on board with Damen Naval, along with more than 1,200 professionals based in Vlissingen, Schiedam, Romania, Germany, and Indonesia. We are the marine division of the family-owned Damen Shipyards Group which employs globally 12,000 professionals. Damen Naval supplies advanced naval vessels to customers all over the world. With a passion for technological innovation and sustainable solutions, we continue to push the boundaries in the shipbuilding sector. You can be part of our team! Are you ready for duty?

THE ROLE

Damen Naval is looking for an experienced interim Systems Engineer Marine Systems- Systems Architect to lead and innovate in the development of mechanical Marine Systems. With a strong background in shipbuilding or related industries, you will play a pivotal role in delivering large-scale projects.

As 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.

Your key responsibilities include leading interdisciplinary design reviews, verifying engineering documents, and driving technical excellence through requirement management and solution development.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
As interim Systems Engineer Marine Systems- Systems Architect at Damen Naval your key responsibilities will include:

• 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
To excel as interim Systems Engineer Marine Systems- Systems Architect at Damen Naval, you should possess the following qualifications and qualities:

• Bachelor or Master 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.
• Competencies: exceptional teamwork, problem-solving, and leadership abilities; decisive and results-oriented.
• 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 our interim team members and strive for a positive and successful collaboration. As an interim professional on secondment basis or as a freelancer, we offer you the following conditions:

• An attractive rate, ensuring at least equal pay to permanent staff.
• Travel allowance of 23 cents per kilometre.
• Flexibility to work partially from home.
• Challenging and innovative projects.

Other
If you are in this temporary assignment of Systems Engineer Marine Systems- Systems Architect, please submit your application with your CV and cover letter. Please indicate your preferred agreement -secondment or freelance- along with an indication of:

• Secondment: monthly gross salary based on fulltime work.
• temporary: hourly rate excluding VAT.
• Availability: fulltime / part-time -> number of hours.
• Notice period and/or preferred start date.

For more information about the vacancy of interim Systems Engineer Marine Systems- Systems Architect 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. #LI-DNS1