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 the beautiful province of Zeeland on the south-west coast of the Netherlands. 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
The position is within the Engineering department where the employees have been divided over projects, in which they contribute to both product definition and the engineering of production information within their field of expertise. As the navies tend to specify more and more the functional and operational requirements, these shall be analysed and monitored during the design and engineering phases. With the quest for deeper knowledge regarding the naval ship operations also comes the need to perform operational analysis and guarantee operational safety onboard. The operational analysis is a logical step in the Systems Engineering process.
Key accountabilities
You will be responsible for the execution of the operational analysis of a naval vessel in peacetime and wartime operations during the proposal and engineering phases. You will collaborate with the ship operators (navies), ship system designers, suppliers, knowledge institutes and the system engineers. Together with the system safety engineers, the operational safety shall be analysed and reported
Skills & experience
- Proven affinity with naval ship operations, to be able to analyse them and ask questions to technical system experts;
- You can analyse and give input to operational models
- You have a helicopter view
- A technical education at BSc level,
- Creative within your field;
- Accurate and efficient;
- Capable of working in a multi-disciplinary team;
- Good knowledge of English and German, both verbally and in writing;
- Prepared to occasionally travel within the Netherlands and abroad;
- European passport for security clearance
What we offer
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 benefit;
- On-going learning opportunities within a diverse and rewarding work environment;
- An active social environment in terms of business culture, events & sports.