Facts
as of Nov 13, 2026
Damen is a family-owned Dutch shipbuilding group headquartered in Gorinchem, designing and building vessels such as tugs, workboats, ferries, naval and patrol ships, dredgers and offshore vessels, and providing ship repair, conversion and maritime services. Its story began in 1927 when brothers Jan and Rien Damen opened a yard in Hardinxveld, and today about 12,500 people work at more than 35 shipyards on five continents under third-generation CEO Arnout Damen. It hires commissioning, mechanical and proposal engineers, project managers, shipbuilding team leaders, mechanics and warehouse staff in the Netherlands, France, Vietnam and elsewhere.
It is hiring: 122 open roles, 37 of them posted in the last 30 days.
- Legal name
- Headquarters
- Gorinchem, Netherlands
- Founded
- 1927
- Employees
- 5000+estimated range
- Open roles
- 122 in 20 citiesAlion job postings
- Register numbers
- KVK 23049923
- Website
- damen.com
As of Nov 13, 2026, Alion lists 122 open roles at Damen. Damen is headquartered in Gorinchem, Netherlands. It was founded in 1927. The median pay stated in its open roles is $67k, across 10 postings that state pay.
Sources: company registers, GLEIF, Wikidata, the company's site, Alion job postingsReport a mistake
What the registers and the postings say about this employer.
Postings are real
Alion truth index: B
79/100
Ghost roles
re-checked against its careers site
0%
Sanctions lists
OFAC SDN, EU consolidated
No match
Phishing reports
OpenPhish, Phishing.Database
None
Layoff notices
US WARN notices on file
None
Sources: company registers, the Alion truth index, OFAC and EU sanctions lists, US WARN notices
Hiring steadily, with new roles every week.
Industrial Engineering is the largest family, 30 of open roles.
37Posted in 30 days30% of open roles are fresh
<1%Remote roles1 of 122
8Roles in AI7% of open roles
20Hiring offices
Can they hire you from United States?by your location
Closed for your country
None of 1 remote postings in the last year included United States
Netherlands102On site
Vietnam24On site
Turkey14On site
United Arab Emirates11On site
South Africa5On site
France3On site
Remote, from elsewhere1Rare
Some postings offer visa sponsorship. Remote roles: 1.
Time to fillmedian days to close a role
Damen51 days
Market, same roles38 days
Alion signals0-100
Demand95
Pay49
Your chance52
How badly they need people, whether they pay, how realistic getting in is.
Open roles over time−100%
Sep 7This week
Open roles a week: 105 then, 0 now
Are the postings real?
B
79 / 100Damen scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 24 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 83% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 51 days.
Ghost roles0%
Gone stale83%
Reposted0%
Where the openings areshare of open roles · trend
Industrial Engineering30▲
Field & Service11▼
Early Careers10▲
Management9
Sales6▼
Operations5
Newest roles
Project Manager$74k – $124k per year (gross) · In office · Full-Time · Vlissingen
What postings ask forlanguages named in open roles
English6654%
Dutch6251%
French65%
German32%
Vietnamese22%
Norwegian11%
Degree asked
Bachelor's Degree 83%Master's Degree 17%
Experience asked: 4.2 years on average, in 58 postings. 52 postings state a degree.
Benefits named in postingsshare of open roles
Health insurance1916%
Professional development76%
Continuous learning32%
Annual leave22%
Flexible schedule22%
Hybrid work22%
Life insurance11%
Sports activities11%
Home office11%
Contract type
Full-Time 111Internship 10Part-Time 1
Visa sponsorship: none statedRelocation: none stated
Source: the company's careers site, read by Alion several times a day; market medians from all open roles of the same family
What its postings pay, by level.
$73kMedianmarket estimate $67k
$63k – $83kTypical rangeUSD a year
$124kHighest paying roleProject Manager
Pay by levelmiddle half of stated pay, median marked · dashed: market median $67k
Senior3$67k$63k – $67k
$0$25k$50k$75k$100k
Source: the pay stated in the company's postings, normalised to USD a year
Footprint
Hiring in 20 cities in 10 countries.
20Cities
10Countries
HaiphongBusiest site
Source: office addresses in postings and company registers
Technologies named in job postings at Damen over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
45Technologies in use
55Postings analysed
64/100Stack modernity
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Source: the technologies named in the company's postings and on its site
Newsroom
top 0.3%Web presenceof 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
May 7, 20252025
News · The Maritime Executive
Damen Shipyards Group, a leading manufacturer of dredgers and dredging equipment, is pleased to announce the successful sale and delivery of the secon...
Jul 9, 20242024
News · MarineLink
Dutch shipbuilder Damen has secured a contract to build the sixth commissioning service operation vessel (CSOV) for offshore…
Mar 22, 20242024
News · Robb Report
Damen had three famous yacht designers create 3 interior and exterior designs for the 80 Xplorer, which can be mix and matched per the owners' wishes.
Sources: the outlets named on each headline, each story once
