Integration Engineer Propulsion Systems

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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 Integration Engineer Propulsion Systems at Damen Naval, you will be responsible for the design and integration of the Propulsion Systems into our naval shipbuilding projects. You will be involved throughout the entire engineering stage, starting from the proposal phase all the way to defining and selecting the optimal propulsion configurations and components.

Key accountabilities

As Integration Engineer Propulsion Systems your key responsibilities will include:

• Setting up of functional technical specifications for suppliers and subcontractors based upon customer and design requirements.
• Perform technical evaluations of quotations from suppliers in close cooperation with the purchasing department.
• Ensure full compliance to all applicable requirements imposed by customer and statutory bodies, in close collaboration with competing suppliers during technical discussions.
• Acquisition and review of supplier engineering information and documentation such as mechanical drawings, schematics, calculations, electrical diagrams, etc.
• Responsible for integration of delivered components and or systems into ship design and in between other propulsion components in close cooperation with internal departments, supplier, statutory bodies, and owner.
• Compose technical and functional specification documents such as system description statements, installation and alignment procedures, HAT, and SAT procedures.
• Verify technical performance of products and systems such as dynamic simulations, inspection of equipment at supplier premises, FAT's and during installation on board.
• Contribute to the further development of the engineering department.

Skills & experience

To excel as Integration Engineer Propulsion Systems, you should possess the following qualifications and qualities:

• Bachelor degree preferably in engineering or proven work skills based upon experience.
• Experience in and knowledge of propulsion systems, in the naval shipbuilding, offshore or commercial shipbuilding.
• Good knowledge of English and preferably Dutch, both verbally and in writing.
• Competencies: customer, quality and results orientation, teamwork, beavioural flexibility, planning and organizing, management control, decisiveness, and initiative.
• 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 this position, please submit your application with your CV and cover 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 this vacancy or Damen Naval, please visit the Damen Naval website , the Damen Naval Career website or contact the Corporate Recruitment department via .

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.

Acquisition and introduction of candidates without a formal request is not appreciated and they will not be considered.