Senior Automation Engineer

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Schiedam - Netherlands

profile Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: 13 hours ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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 12000 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
As the Senior Automation Engineer at Damen Naval you will play a major role in ensuring that state-of-the art naval vessels are built and commissioned with fully operational automated systems compliant to strict regulations and requirements. You develop the automation concept of complex processes encompassing a wide range of systems onboard of the vessel. Depending on the vessels configuration your automation design could encompass a host of strategic defensive and deterring systems. Your design has state-of-the-art automation functionality allowing the crew to control and monitor all the systems in the ship. You work and collaborate according to the V-model in our 3DExperience engineering environment while basic and detailed designs will be thoroughly reviewed tested and verified throughout both the design as well as the build phase. The culmination of your work is the launch of a new naval vessel ready to defend our freedom across the world!

Key accountabilities
In this role your responsibilities will include:

  • Develop the functional descriptions and other basic engineering documents and drawings of the automated processes of the ships systems.

  • Develop and maintain specification documents of all automation components and installation processes.

  • Write detailed test- and validation plans to ensure compliancy with Class regulations and to meet customer requirements during virtual testing (simulations) and real-world testing (FAT HAT SAT).

  • Manage vendors and subcontractors to get their timely contribution to the project.

  • Review of vendors and subcontractors design and implement this in the vessels design.

  • Develop and describe standards and working methods for detailed engineering and commissioning.

  • Provide support in proposal stages by developing conceptual designs of system automation.

  • Offer technical support or commissioning activities to projects under contract.


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

  • 5 years experience with designing and installing complex automation systems (PLC/SCADA) preferably in maritime offshore or aeronautical installations.

  • Professional experience working in complex projects comprised of multidisciplinary sub-teams and multiple suppliers and subcontractors.

  • Experience working in a model-based system engineering environment (MBSE) according to the V-model.

  • Bachelors or Masters level in Computer Engineering Technical Automation Electrical Engineering or other relevant discipline.

  • 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.

Application & information

Are you interested in this position please submit your application including 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.

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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Key Skills

  • Continuous Integration
  • APIs
  • Jenkins
  • Junit
  • Distributed Control Systems
  • Testng
  • GAMP
  • Test Automation
  • CI/CD
  • Cucumber
  • Programmable Logic Controllers
  • Selenium

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