Change Coordinator Engineering

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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 aChange Coordinator Engineering, you play a crucial role in managing engineering changes within our naval projects. You act as the link between technical and administrative content, ensuring that all engineering changes whether initiated by customers, partners, subcontractors, suppliers, or classification societies are effectively coordinated and documented. Your role is essential in maintaining an organized and structured approach to change management within engineering, ensuring traceability and efficiency throughout the process.

Key accountabilities

As an Change Coordinator Engineering at Damen Naval, your key responsibilities will include:

• Support and suggest engineering change identification and initiation.
• Manage the end-to-end processing of requirements, documents, and configuration changes.
• Ensure correct assignment of change management levels and execution of impact analyses.
• Monitor progress and follow up on open changes with responsible action holders.
• Coordinate changes affecting multiple teams within Engineering.
• Initiate, implement, and communicate change execution plans.
• Ensure traceability of approved changes into the product configuration.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of department processes and knowledge transfer.
• Comply with HSSEQ / IMED policies and procedures.

Skills & experience

To excel as the Change Coordinator Engineering, you should possess the following qualifications and qualities:

• Bachelor's degree (EQF6) in a technical field with 3-5 years of relevant experience, or Master's degree (EQF7) with at least 1 year of relevant experience.
• Experience with naval engineering concepts and practices; background in naval architecture is desirable.
• Knowledge of configuration management and change control processes.
• Familiarity with PDM/PLM systems.
• Understanding of engineering processes and interfaces between disciplines.
• Strong administrative skills within a complex technical environment.
• Strong influencing skills to ensure collaboration across multiple stakeholders.
• Detail-oriented with a proactive mindset.
• Excellent command of the English language and Dutch language.
• 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 including 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.