Project Management Officer (Dutch speaking)

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About us
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

As IT Project Management Officer your support IT project Managers by delivering the relevant project governance principles and help improve the project management maturity across the IT Department in Damen Naval. You are a member of the IT Special Domains department l which is the driver for digital transformation and a provider of high-quality IT solutions and services, aimed at improved productivity and better customer experience. Given the extensive communication with a lot of Dutch internal stakeholders, good command of the Dutch language is essential for being successful in this position.

Key accountabilities
As the Project Management Officer, your key responsibilities will include:

• Support the IT Project Manager with the initiation of a project, including proposal drafting, project planning and budgeting.
• Act as the liaison between the IT Project Manager and the IT Business Controller.
• Support the IT Project Manager during the execution by monitoring project progress, identifying and monitor dependencies and risks that threaten project success.
• Report insights to IT management related to project status, development, risks, and issues.
• Involve, manage, and empower relevant project stakeholders from both business and IT.
• Support the IT Project Manager during the finalization of projects by finding, mapping and share lessons learned as well as archiving project documents.
• Support the IT Project Management Team Lead in managing the IT Project Portfolio by maintaining IT project information.
• Onboard new IT Project Managers with regards to IT Project Management processes, templates, and tools

Skills & experience
To excel as a Project Management Officer, you should possess the following qualifications and qualities:

• Relevant Bachelor degree, preferably complemented with Project Management qualifications.
• Five to ten years, working experience in project management and portfolio management in a large, international organization, working as project support officer, or a similar position.
• Sound knowledge of PMBOK and/or Prince2, Agile/Scrum, and with working experience in Waterfall and Agile/Scrum projects.
• Experience with project financials and with implementation of change and improvement projects.
• Working knowledge of MS Office products, MS Project, and SharePoint.
• Good command of Dutch and English language written & verbal.
• 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 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 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 +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-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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