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About us
Get on board with Damen Naval, along with more than 1,200 professionals based in The Netherlands, Romania, and Germany. We are the naval division of the family-owned Damen Shipyards Group which employs 12,000 professionals globally. Damen Naval designs and builds advanced naval vessels for customers all over the world. With a passion for technological innovation and sustainable solutions, we continue to push the boundaries in naval shipbuilding. You can be part of our team! Are you ready for duty?

The role

As a Risk Coordinator at Damen Naval, you will be pivotal in managing and mitigating risks throughout the project lifecycle. You will lead the end-to-end risk analysis, ensuring that both technical and financial risks are identified, prioritized, and mitigated effectively. Your expertise will help cultivate a culture of safety and environmental responsibility, with a focus on maintaining clear communication and proactive risk management with all stakeholders.

Key accountabilities
In this role, your responsibilities will include:

• Leading risk identification workshops with stakeholders to assess risks, their implications, likelihood, and ownership across various project stages.
• Conducting both qualitative and quantitative risk analysis, focusing on impact and probability to prioritize critical risks.
• Maintaining a comprehensive risk register, ensuring compliance with legislative and organizational requirements.
• Managing interdependent risks across project layers and breaking them down into manageable levels.
• Supporting risk owners in selecting, implementing, and validating mitigation measures.
• Tracking and following up on risk mitigation actions and ensuring continuous progress.
• Monitoring evolving project risks and emerging threats and presenting regular risk updates to stakeholders.
• Managing risks associated with suppliers, vendors, and supply chain disruptions.
• Facilitating the documentation and sharing of lessons learned to refine future risk management strategies.

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

• 2+ years of experience in risk coordination, ideally within the manufacturing or naval shipbuilding industry.
• Familiarity with risk identification and severity assessment in line with ISO 31000 standards.
• Strong influencing skills to foster collaboration and alignment across disciplines.
• Knowledge of industrial engineering principles (V-Model) and techniques (MBSE) in manufacturing, particularly within naval shipbuilding.
• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in a technical domain (Mechanical Engineering, Shipbuilding) or Technical Business Administration.
• Proficiency in English; Dutch language skills are a plus.

• Excellent references, as a security screening is part of the hiring process.

• 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 highly value our employees, and we will support your professional and personal development. We also provide our employees with:

• A competitive salary and 8% holiday pay.

• 27 holidays and 13 ADV days.

• Travel allowance of 23 cents per kilometre.

• PME-pension arrangement with an employer contribution of 60%.

• Profit sharing based on company results.

• Flexibility to work from home up to two days a week.

• Additional benefits including a bicycle plan and company fitness.

Other
Are you interested in this position, please submit your application with your CV and cover letter, along with an indication of:

• Your (preferred) monthly gross salary based on fulltime work.
• Availability (fulltime / part-time / number of hours).
• Notice period / possible starting date.

For more information about this 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-employment 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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