Engineer Systems Requirements (interim)

885 Damen Naval B.V.; Vlissingen; Hybrid; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel allowance 23 cents per kilomet

Work from home up to two days a week

Challenging and innovative projects

Job summary

Damen Naval B.V. is seeking an Engineer Systems Requirements to capture and manage customer requirements for naval shipbuilding projects.

You will align requirements with project deliverables, using your expertise in requirements management and DOORS, while interfacing with engineering teams and subcontractors. The role emphasizes international development projects within a matrix organization, with strong emphasis on communication, ownership, and clear reporting to stakeholders.

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.
• Excellent command of English is required; proficiency in German is highly beneficial, and Dutch mastery is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Capture customer requirements using the requirements management tool (DOORS).
• Establish baselines and manage traceable changes to requirements.
• Analyze, group, and decompose requirements for clear specs.
• Ensure requirements are smart, consistent, and resolved when conflicting.
• Coordinate with project colleagues to ensure requirements are understood.
• Structure requirements for work packages, internally or via outsourcing.
• Monitor development and report status of requirements.

Skills

DOORS

Requirements management

Systems engineering

International projects

English

German helpful

Dutch advantageous

Education

Bachelor or Master 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

• 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

• 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.

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. For questions, please contact Corporate Recruitment at [phone]. 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.

Would you like to learn more about Damen Naval? Visit the Damen Naval website for more information and explore current Damen Naval vacancies via our job portal.

We offer you a world of possibilities. Join our family. We want to make the world a better place by becoming the most sustainable maritime solution provider. For that, we need you. Become part of our family. We are Damen. We’re a family company that has been building ships for almost 100 years. However, our focus is not on the past, however – we’re looking forward. Our ambition is to become the most sustainable and connected maritime solutions provider there is. To achieve this, we combine digital technology with our philosophy of standardised shipbuilding to offer a portfolio of services that takes care of vessels throughout the entire lifecycle.

Working at Damen offers the best of several worlds. Active in more than 100 countries, with over 30 shipyards, we are internationally renowned for quality. And we are still growing, still innovating. Which means we will continue to challenge you. You will never stop learning, and you will never get bored – we promise you that. We offer you an ocean of possibilities. Join our family.