Aspect Integration Lead (interim)

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About us

Hop aboard Damen Naval; the naval division of the family-owned Damen Shipyards Group, where 12,000 professionals work worldwide. Damen Naval delivers advanced naval vessels to clients all over the globe. By implementing the most innovative technological developments in practice, we continue to push the boundaries in the shipbuilding industry. You can be part of our team! Are you ready for duty?

The Role
The Aspect Integration Lead is responsible for representing the GS (Gesamtsystem) and WS (Waffensystem) aspects throughout the project's engineering, verification & validation (V&V), design reviews, and other processes. This role aims to streamline, clarify, and introduce structure between project processes, involved teams, and aspects. Additionally, this role plays an essential part in aligning planning, verification & validation teams, technical specifications, testing and integration teams, system integration leads, with aspects.

Key responsibilities
In this role, your responsibilities will include:

• Coordinating and monitoring all GS and WS aspects across design, verification & validation, testing, and integration processes.
• Aligning planning and priorities with the different teams within the project
• Identifying risks, dependencies, or delays and escalating them to relevant stakeholders for timely resolution.
• Preparing and presenting Aspect Management Summaries (AMS), one-pagers, and other communication materials to ensure alignment across teams.
• Organizing workshops and sessions to explain aspects, processes, and responsibilities to project teams.
• Representing GS and WS aspects in design reviews, integration meetings, and other project forums.
• Supporting and collaborating with the GS and WS teams, design control, architects, and functional design to ensure proper integration of aspects.

Skills & experience
We are looking for candidates with the following qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree in a technical field with 7–10 years of relevant experience, or a master’s degree with 5–7 years of relevant experience.
• A strong technical background in mechanical, propulsion, or auxiliary systems, ideally in naval or offshore projects.
• Proven experience in coordinating multi-disciplinary teams and integrating cross-system requirements.
• Ability to communicate technical information clearly to both engineers and management.
• A proactive mindset with strong problem-solving and organizational skills.
• Good command of the English 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. Candidates with 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 temporary team members and strive for a positive and successful collaboration. As a temporary professional on secondment basis, we offer you the following conditions:

• An attractive salary aligned with permanent staff.
• Travel allowance of 23 cents per kilometre.
• Flexibility to work from home up to two days a week.
• Challenging and innovative projects.

Application & information
This temporary assignment is exclusively offered on a secondment (detachering) or temporary employment contract basis. .

If you are interested, please submit your application with the following details:

• Your CV and motivational letter.
• Indication of your expected hourly fee or gross monthly salary (based on full-time work).
• Your availability (full-time/part-time and number of hours).
• Your notice period and preferred start date.

For more information about the vacancy or Damen Naval, please visit the Damen Naval website, the Damen Naval Career website or contact the Corporate Recruitment department via +31 118 485 000.

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-assignment 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.

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