Engineer Systems Requirements (interim)

Damen; Vlissingen; Hybrid; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary aligned with permanent staff

Travel allowance

Hybrid work up to 2 days/week

Challenging and innovative projects

Job summary

Damen Naval is seeking an Engineer Systems Requirements to join our team on a secondment basis, focusing on capturing and managing (customer) requirements for naval shipbuilding projects. You will work under the Manager Systems Engineering and the Principal Architect to establish clear specifications for processes and products across engineering teams and subcontracted work packages.

Responsibilities include managing DOORS-based requirements, ensuring baselines and traceable changes, and

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Systems Engineering

Requirements management

Analytical thinking

English proficiency

German helpful

Education

Bachelor's or Master's 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.

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.