Engineer Systems Requirements / Verification

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

THE ROLE

As Engineer Systems Requirements & Verification you will identify and manage the documented wishes of the Damen Naval customer with regards to a naval shipbuilding project (Engineering-to-Order). You will capture the customer’s wishes and requirements within the Requirements Management tool (DOORS) and support further grouping and decomposition of these requirements to support establishment of clear and functional specifications for processes and products to be developed that can be used by our engineering teams and/or used to specify subcontracted work packages to suppliers of Engineering hardware and/or software. You will also monitor the requirements traceability and perform systems verification activities as needed to collect and demonstrate objective evidence of compliance. As Engineer Systems Requirements/Verification you functionally and hierarchically report to the Manager Systems Engineering and operationally report to the Project Manager Engineering/ Team Leader Engineering on the assigned project.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
As Engineer Systems Requirements & Verification, you will be responsible for:

• Capturing customer requirements in the requirements management tool (DOORS).
• Safeguarding establishment of requirements baselines and traceable changes thereto.
• Analysing and further grouping and decomposition of requirements for use by the respective engineering teams, supporting the establishment of clear functional and non-functional specifications.

• Participate in making the formulated requirements smart, consistent and identification of any conflicting requirements that need to be resolved.
• Pro-active and frequent communication with project engineers and stakeholders to ensure the requirements are well known, can be fulfilled, and verified, and are properly captured in the requirement management tool.
• Structuring the functional and non-functional requirements for specific work packages to be performed, either internally or by means of outsourcing/subcontracting.
• Maintaining the Verification Cross Reference Matrix (VCRM), ensuring the Verification & Validation plan is effectively executed, by ensuring that defined Verification Cases and Test Cases duly support the identified Means of Compliance, providing documented evidence with traceability to the customer’s contractual requirements.
• Create and distribute reports documenting the status and progress of requirements verification and validation activities to internal stakeholders throughout the design and development process for the naval vessel, being an integrated system of systems.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

As Engineer Systems Requirements & Verification, you need to have:

• Bachelor or Master degree, preferably in Systems Engineering, Marine Engineering, Naval Architecture, or an equivalent relevant technical field.
• Common sense, logical process thinking, and agility with digital tools.
• Knowledge of Systems Engineering principles, especially in the domain of Requirements Management (capture, analysis, validation, specification) and Verification and Validation; experience with DOORS is considered a plus.
• Affinity or experience with Engineering processes
• Experience or willing to gain experience with working in internationally oriented complex development projects, while working in a matrix organizational structure.
• Working in a project, taking ownership and responsibility for the work and the collective objectives, by proactively seeking contact and working effectively together with both internal and external stakeholders (e.g. customer, partners, and suppliers).
• Coordination and managing the technical / requirement engineering activities and reporting clearly in terms of planning, progress and (potential) issues.

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.
• Working from home policy and other benefits including a bicycle plan and company fitness.

OTHER
Are you interested in the position of Engineer Systems Requirements & Verification, kindly submit your application along with your CV and motivation 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 the vacancy or Damen Naval, please visit the Damen Naval website, the Damen Naval Career website or call the Corporate Recruitment department on +31 (0)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.

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