Engineer Systems Requirements (interim)

Zeeland; Netherlands; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel allowance

Hybrid work option

Challenging projects

Job summary

Damen Naval is seeking an Engineer Systems Requirements to join a naval shipbuilding project. You will capture and manage customer requirements, ensuring alignment with project deliverables and using your expertise in DOORS and requirements management.

Reporting to the Systems Engineering Manager, you will help establish clear specifications for processes and products, while coordinating with internal teams and subcontractors. English is essential; German and Dutch skills are a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master degree and knowledge of Systems Engineering principles, esp. in Requirements Management, with DOORS experience a plus.
• Affinity with System Engineering processes, deriving requirements from operational scenarios.
• Experience in international development projects within a matrix organization.
• Strong analytical and reporting skills.
• Excellent English; German and Dutch language skills are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Capture customer requirements using the requirements management tool (DOORS).
• Establish baselines and ensure traceable changes.
• Analyze, group, and decompose requirements for clear specs.
• Make requirements smart, consistent, and resolve conflicts.
• Facilitate proactive communication to ensure proper capture of requirements.
• Structure requirements for specific work packages, internal or via outsourcing.
• Monitor development and report status to stakeholders.
• Conduct systems verification to gather objective evidence of compliance.

Skills

DOORS

Requirements Management

System Engineering

International projects

English

German beneficial

Dutch advantageous

Education

Bachelor or Master degree in Systems Engineering

Tools

DOORS

Job description

We offer you an Ocean of Possibilities. Join our family.

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 of the shipbuilding industry. You can be part of our team! Are you ready for duty?

The role

Damen Naval is currently seeking a skilled Engineer Systems Requirements to join us on a, focusing on capturing and managing (customer) requirements for a naval shipbuilding project. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in ensuring the alignment of requirements with project deliverables, utilizing your expertise in Requirements Management processes.

Reporting to the Manager Systems Engineering and operationally to the Principal Architect, you'll contribute to the establishment of clear specifications for processes and products, crucial for our engineering teams and subcontracted work packages.

Key accountabilities

As Engineer Systems Requirements, your key responsibilities will include:

• Capturing customer requirements using the requirements management tool (DOORS).
• Ensuring the establishment of requirements baselines and traceable changes.
• Analyzing, grouping, and decomposing requirements to facilitate clear functional and non-functional specifications.
• Participating in making requirements smart, consistent, and resolving conflicting requirements.
• Facilitating proactive communication with project colleagues to ensure requirements are well-understood and properly captured.
• Structuring requirements for specific work packages, internally or through outsourcing/subcontracting.
• Monitoring the development process and providing reports on requirement status to internal stakeholders.
• Conducting systems verification activities to collect objective evidence of compliance.

Skills & experience

• Bachelor or Master degree and knowledge of Systems Engineering principles, especially in Requirements Management, with experience in DOORS considered a plus.
• Affinity with System Engineering processes, including deriving requirements based on operational scenarios.
• Experience or willingness to work in international development projects within a matrix organization structure.
• Strong common sense, logical thinking, and proficiency with digital tools.
• Strong project-based work ethic, taking ownership and responsibility for collective objectives.
• Effective coordination and management skills in technical/engineering activities, with clear reporting abilities.
• Excellent command of English is required; proficiency in German is highly beneficial, and Dutch mastery is advantageous.
• Excellent references antecedents as a pre-employment security screening is standard part of the recruitment procedure.

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. Freelance or ZZP agreements are not considered due to current Dutch legislation.

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.