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
For this Interim position, Damen Naval is looking for a (Senior) Engineer Requirements Management who can start on a temporary basis. As (Senior) Engineer Systems Requirements you will identify and manage the documented wishes of the Damen Naval customer with regards to a naval shipbuilding project (Engineering-to-Order). You will capture the customer's wishes and requirements within the Requirements Management tool and support further grouping and decomposition of these requirements to support establishment of clear and functional specifications for processes and products to be developed that can be used by our engineering teams and/or used to specify subcontracted work packages to suppliers of Engineering hardware and/or software. You will also monitor the requirements traceability and perform systems verification activities as needed to collect and demonstrate objective evidence of compliance. As (Senior) Engineer Systems Requirements you functionally and hierarchically report to the Manager Systems Engineering and operationally report to the Project Manager Engineering/ Team Leader Engineering on the assigned project.
Key accountabilities
As a (Senior) Engineer Requirements Management your key responsibilities will include:
- Capturing customer requirements in the requirements management tool (DOORS).
- Safeguarding establishment of requirements baselines and traceable changes thereto.
- Analysing and further grouping and decomposition of requirements for use by the respective engineering teams, supporting the establishment of clear functional and non-functional specifications.
- Participate in making the formulated requirements smart, consistent and identification of any conflicting requirements that need to be resolved.
- Pro-active and frequent communication with colleague engineers in the project to make sure the requirements are well known, can be fulfilled, and are properly captured in the requirement management tool.
- Structuring the functional and non-functional requirements for specific work packages to be performed, either internally or by means of outsourcing/subcontracting.
- Actively keeping an eye on the follow up of the development process.
- Create and distribute reports (dashboards) on the status of requirements to internal stakeholders throughout the design and development process for the naval vessel, being an integrated system of systems.
- Monitor requirement traceability and perform systems verification activities to collect objective evidence and demonstrate of compliance.
Skills & experience
As a (Senior) Engineer Requirements Management, you should possess the following qualifications and qualities:
- Bachelor or Master's degree, preferably in Systems Engineering, Marine Engineering, or an equivalent relevant technical field.
- Common sense, logical thinking, and agility with digital tools.
- Knowledge of Systems Engineering principles, especially for the Requirements Management process (capture, analysis, validation, specification, and verification); experience with DOORS is a plus.
- Affinity with System Engineering processes (deriving requirements based on analysis of operational deployment/ usage scenarios and what that means for system behaviour to identify derived and or decomposed requirements).
- Experience or willing to gain experience with working in internationally oriented development projects in a matrix organization structure.
- Being able to work on a project basis, taking ownership and responsibility for the work and the collective objectives, by proactively seeking contact and work effectively together, both internally and externally with external parties (e.g. Customer, partners, and suppliers).
- Coordination and managing the technical / requirement engineering activities and reporting clearly in terms of planning, progress and (potential) issues.
- Excellent command of the English is required. Good command of the German language (written and verbal) is of significant added value. Mastery of the Dutch language is a plus, but not essential.
- 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 (detachering) or as a freelancer (ZZP), 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
Are you interested in the interim position of [vacancy title], kindly submit your application along with your CV and motivation letter. Please state your preferred agreement, secondment (detachering) or freelance (zzp) along with an indication of:
- Secondment: your monthly gross salary based on fulltime work.
- Freelance: your hourly rate.
For more information about the vacancy or Damen Naval, please visit the Damen Naval website, the Damen Naval Career website or call the Corporate Recruitment department on +31 (0)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-employment and security screening and investigation form part of the recruitment process.
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