About us
Damen Naval offers you a career that is challenging, exciting and fun in equal measure. You could join our team – over 500-strong – of professionals in our location in Schiedam or Vlissingen. The Naval division of the family-owned Damen Shipyards Group is renowned internationally for its on-time, on budget delivery of high-quality naval vessels, as well as its role of full-service provider, or integrator, throughout the lifecycle of its products. The division has a rich history reaching back over 140 years and is proud of its long tradition of serving the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN), the launching customer of eight successive generations of Damen Combatants. Today, Damen Naval operates yards and specialist engineering companies in the Netherlands, Belgium and Romania and additionally constructs vessels at non-Damen locations of clients’ choosing all around the world. Damen Naval is looking towards the future. Together with its partners, the division undertakes in-depth R&D with a view to optimising the efficiency of naval shipbuilding processes for the future. Are you ready for duty?
The role
As Senior Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) Engineer, you are responsible for projects related to services for naval ships. You will be work on projects related to spare parts, in warranty or out of warranty, providing services during the whole life cycle of vessels. The usual service packages that must be delivered normally include technical documentation, maintenance plans for equipment and trainings. To do this, you will work together with the ILS team to prepare ILS documentation.
As Senior Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) Engineer you work on a broad variety of tasks in the field of ILS. You will work in multifunctional teams to develop and deliver the ILS products, on time, within budget and within quality standards. As Engineer ILS you deliver contractual agreed ILS packages and increases customer satisfaction. You will also contribute to the further development of the strategic ILS (technology) roadmap.
Key accountabilities
As Senior Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) Engineer you will:
- Preparing ILS training material for technical equipment and naval products.
- Preparing budgetary offers and estimations of projects costs.
- Performing ILS analysis such as ISP, ATM and PMS.
- Studying the technical regulations and technical drawings that apply in each project.
- Studying and reporting the reliability and maintainability of naval equipment.
- Cooperate with the technical department and report to the Project Manger ILS.
- Support and pro-actively coach the more junior Engineers.
- Deliver ILS products and services within time, budget and according to the relevant quality standards.
- Work on ILS products include purchase support, maintenance/LSA including ARM and LCC calculations, supply support, documentation, training, and transfer of technology.
- Ensure full compliance to all applicable requirements imposed by the company and the end-users.
- Assist in drafting and reviewing (part of) ILS proposals and in the further improvement and development of ILS products, processes, and methodologies.
- Support and pro-actively coach the more junior Engineers.
Skills & experience
The ideal candidate has experience in the shipbuilding industry and a solid technical knowledge regarding vessel’s equipment. In addition as Senior Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) Engineer you need to have:
- Bachelor or Master level degree in the field of marine engineering or similar.
- Extensive knowledge and experience in the field of ILS.
- Minimum of five years of experience in development and execution of ILS packages within a technical and/or MoD environment or alternatively a minimum of five years of experience in maintenance in an engineering environment.
- Preferably a naval background or at least affinity with a naval environment and culture.
- Experience in working in multifunctional and multicultural teams and environments.
- Good command of the Dutch and English language (written and verbal) and additional languages like Spanish and German are an advantage.
- Excellent antecedents as a pre-employment security screening and investigation are a part of the recruitment procedure (given the military nature of our projects).
- EU citizenship or valid EU work visa is required to be considered as a viable candidate.
What we offer
As Damen Naval we highly value our employees and support your professional and personal development. Therefore we invest in all our employees by:
- A technology and innovation focused dynamic international work environment.
- A competitive salary package & other benefits.
- On-going learning opportunities within a diverse and rewarding work environment.
- An active social environment in terms of business culture, events & sports.
Other
Are you interested in the position of Senior Engineer ILS and do you recognise yourself in the job description? Please apply directly via the Damen career portal or through the apply now button.
For more information about the vacancy, Damen Naval or the application process, please visit the working at Damen Naval webpage or call the Corporate Recruitment department on +31 (0)118- 485 000.
Please note, that only candidates with an EU citizenship or valid EU work visa will be considered as viable candidates. A pre-employment and security screening and investigation form part of the recruitment process.
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