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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

The Interim Team Lead Combat is assigned to the Damen Naval project to build the F126 Frigates for the team German Navy. The Team lead Combat leads a team of technical subcontract managers that manages combat system suppliers from all over the world, throughout all project phases including installation and verification for the F126 project. This results into a full integration of the groups combat systems on the F126. As these frigates are built in Germany, and suppliers are located around the world, this job required significant and frequent business travel and working abroad.

Key accountabilities

• Coordination, together with the team and the Combat System Integrator (a supplier) the integration of the F126 effectors into the Combat Management System.
• Coordination, together with the team and the platform engineering department, the system to platform integration of the effectors into the F126
• Taking responsibility for the delivery engineering services of the team.
• Leads and takes part in meetings with the customer, suppliers, the Combat System Integrator, and other Damen Naval internal (F126) departments.
• Manages the team resource planning and assures all members have the required capabilities, in close consultation with the Sub-project Lead Combat Systems and the line organization.
• Manages day-to-day work, as well as short- and medium-term planning of the team.
• Manages multiple internal and external parties (other teams/departments, vendors, subcontractors) to ensure performance quality, secures the execution and the synchronization of CS products and services.
• Ensures development, validation, availability and planning of CS engineering products and services within agreed schedules, required quality and cost limits.

Skills & experience

• 6+ years of experience in engineering & subcontract management acquired while working on complex, preferably combat, systems.
• Good command of the English and German language (written & verbal).
• Demonstrable experience in working in large, complex, multinational project environments.
• Understanding in a variety of engineering concepts (V-model) and practices.
• Available for significant and frequent business travel/work abroad.

• Excellent references antecedents as a pre-employment security screening is standard part of the recruitment procedure.

• 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 value our interim team members and strive for a positive and successful collaboration. As an interim professional on secondment basis or as a freelancer, we offer you the following conditions:

• An attractive rate, ensuring at least equal pay to permanent staff.
• Travel allowance of 23 cents per kilometre.
• Flexibility to work partially from home.
• Challenging and innovative projects.

Other

If you are in this interim assignment, please submit your application with your CV and cover letter. Please indicate your preferred agreement -secondment or freelance- along with an indication of:

• Secondment: monthly gross salary based on fulltime work.
• Freelance: hourly rate excluding VAT.
• Availability: fulltime / part-time -> number of hours.
• Notice period and/or preferred start date.

For more information about the 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-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.

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