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Naval Architect – Change Coordinator

The role

For this interim role Damen Naval is looking for a Change Coordinator who can start on short notice and on a temporary basis (at least two years). Change Management is part of Configuration Management and is the technical administrative support to control the primary process (value chain). As Change Coordinator you will act on the interface between technical and administrative content. Changes can involve customer requirements and documents/ drawings/ calculations and might be initiated by the customer, partners, subcontractors, suppliers, and Class. As Change Coordinator you must understand the engineering process to be a credible partner to the executing engineers and the interaction of all aspects in a potential change. At the same time, you like the coordinating and organizing nature of the role. With changes you must be sensitive towards the attitude of colleagues and team up with them.

Key accountabilities

As Change Coordinator (Project Based) you will be responsible for:

Support change initiation, issue identification and/or issue description sheet (ICR).

Verify if appropriate Change level is assigned.

Define and execute and/or delegate actions for impact analysis.

Monitor progress and change from action holders where needed.

Organize and prepare Change Board meetings on proper level.

Prepare minutes of meeting and/or progress logs.

Initiate change implementation, ensure implementation actions are planned, executed, and communicated.

Closure of changes after implementation and verification.

Skills & experience

As Change Coordinator (Project Based) you need to have:

Broad General Engineering knowledge of Naval vessels.

Experience and affinity with administrative tasks in a complex technical setting.

Naturally driven to get the work done to the end support and to facilitate engineers and other colleagues.

Competences: precise, thorough, disciplined, socially sensitive, able to motivate engineers, resolute, persistent, resilient, professionally outgoing, customer orientated, teamwork, result orientated, behavioural flexibility and quality orientation.

Good command of the Dutch and English language written, and verbal and German is a plus.

Excellent antecedents as a pre-employment security screening is a standard part of the recruitment procedure.

Permanent multiyear EU citizenship combined with permanent EU work visa are all requirements of the recruitment process for viable candidates, given the military nature of clients and projects.