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Naval Architect

Marine & Offshore
Vlissingen
Full time

Introduction

Working at Damen Naval is an exciting journey into the future of maritime innovation! Join their talented team and contribute to building advanced naval ships with a rich history of over 150 years. Discover your passion for technology, develop your skills, and become part of a dynamic international community.

Function

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

  • Perform design and development activities: execute requirements analysis, concept generation, general system architecture (2D/3D CAD Arrangements; MBSE models, 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 models and 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.

What’s in it for you

At Damen Naval, we value our interim team members and strive for a positive and successful collaboration. As an interim professional on secondment basis (detachering) or as a freelancer (ZZP), we offer you the following conditions:

  • An attractive rate, ensuring at least equal pay to permanent staff.
  • Flexibility to work partially from home.
  • Challenging and innovative projects.
  • Salary: €3500 – €5500

Who are you?

To excel as the Design Engineer Marine Engineering (T4C), 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

About the organization

At Wfspro, we offer you the opportunity for a challenging, exciting, and enjoyable career. Our maritime division, Damen Naval, is part of the family-owned Damen Shipyards Group and has locations in Vlissingen and Schiedam. With more than 1,000 professionals and a rich tradition in shipbuilding dating back over 150 years, they have built a strong reputation. For over 50 years, Damen Naval has been the dedicated shipbuilder for the Royal Netherlands Navy. Drawing on decades of experience, Damen Naval provides navies worldwide with a wide range of defense and security vessels, ranging from 7 meters to over 200 meters in length. Damen Naval is the sole supplier of naval vessels in the Netherlands and has delivered over 420 ships to satisfied customers worldwide. They have earned a reputation of excellence along the way. While Damen Naval take pride in their heritage, they also look to the future. Are you ready for this challenge?

Interested?

Are you enthusiastic and do you fit the profile? Then please contact us. Email [email protected] or call or WhatsApp Sven Hessing at +31 (0)6 49 70 40 19.

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