Naval Systems Requirements Engineer — Remote-friendly

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

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