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Join our family.\nABOUT US\nDamen Offshore & Specialized Vessels (OSV) designs, builds and delivers complex maritime projects for markets such as defense & security, offshore, public transport and dredging. We operate in an international, multidisciplinary environment and work closely with customers, suppliers, subcontractors, engineering teams and shipyards around the world.\nFor our Product Group Defense & Security we are looking for a Design & Proposal Engineer.\nTHE ROLE\nAs Design & Proposal Engineer within our Product Group Defense & Security, you translate customer requirements into technically feasible, competitive and attractive vessel solutions. In close cooperation with Sales, Tender Management, Product Specialists and engineering stakeholders, you prepare ship designs, technical specifications, scope definitions, cost calculations and delivery-time input during the commercial and tender phase.\nYou play an important role in shaping proposals for complex defense and governmental vessel opportunities. Depending on your level of experience, you may work on vessel concepts and proposal deliverables with guidance from senior colleagues, or take a leading role in optimizing existing designs, developing new vessel concepts and supporting colleagues in proposal work. We are looking for the right person for the job and can shape the challenge to match your experience.\nKEY ACCOUNTABILITIES\nIn this role, you will:\nTranslate customer, market and tender requirements into vessel concepts, proposal designs and technical solutions in line with Damen standards.\nPrepare and maintain ship designs, technical specifications, scope descriptions, assumptions, exclusions and proposal documentation.\nCalculate cost price elements, determine technical feasibility and provide input for delivery time, planning and commercial decision-making.\nSupport Sales and Tender Management during the bidding phase with technical input, presentations, clarifications and proposal reviews.\nWork closely with Product Specialists, Research, Engineering, Production, Supply Chain, Services and other internal stakeholders to develop complete and reliable proposals.\nOptimize standard and customer-specific designs to improve quality, reliability, functionality, competitiveness and manufacturability.\nIdentify technical risks, interfaces, deviations and trade-offs, and document them clearly for internal decision-making and customer discussions.\nContribute to proposal handovers, lessons learned, product improvements and further standardization of the Defense & Security portfolio.\nEnsure that proposal activities are performed in line with Damen governance, HSSEQ, ethics, export-control, compliance and approval processes.\nSKILLS & EXPERIENCE\nTo be successful in this role, you bring:\nA completed technical education, preferably in Shipbuilding, Naval Architecture, Marine Engineering or a comparable discipline.\nRelevant experience in ship design, naval architecture, proposal engineering, product development or a comparable technical environment. We are open to junior, medior and senior candidates.\nAffinity with complex vessels, defense and security markets, governmental customers and engineering-to-order projects.\nGood understanding of customer requirements, technical trade-offs, design standards, cost awareness and proposal processes.\nExperience with ship design tools and engineering software; knowledge of 2D and/or 3D design tools is considered an advantage.\nThe ability to combine technical accuracy with commercial awareness and customer focus.\nStrong communication skills in English; Dutch language skills are considered an advantage.\nA structured, proactive and collaborative way of working, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders.\nWillingness to travel occasionally to customers, shipyards or other Damen locations when required.\nCOMPETENCIES\nYou are a technically strong and customer-oriented engineer who enjoys working at the interface of design, sales and product development. You bring structure to complex questions, ask the right questions and are able to translate requirements into clear and realistic solutions. You take ownership, work accurately and remain pragmatic when balancing customer wishes, technical feasibility, risk, cost and standardization.\nYou communicate easily with different stakeholders, both technical and non-technical, and you are comfortable working in an international and multidisciplinary environment. You have a hands-on mentality, a can-do attitude and the curiosity to keep improving vessel designs, proposal quality and ways of working.\nRecruiter:\nGerard EgginkEmail:\n apply through the Apply Button. 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