Lead Naval Architect
What is required?
- HBO/WO or equivalent experience in naval architecture, Marine Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
- A minimum of five years of relevant working experience in naval architecture with a focus on conceptual and basic design
- Strong understanding of ship design principles, including stability, strength, resistance, and motion behaviour
- Experience with feasibility studies, investment cost assessment, and performance evaluations of ship designs
- Hands-on approach to conceptual design and initial engineering work
- Ability to lead and motivate a team, providing technical guidancve and coaching to less experienced engineers
- Ability to take initiative and work independently
- Proactive and structured way of working with a keen eye for both technical feasiblity and commercial viability
- Ability to lead and motivate a team and prepared to train / coach junior / medior peers
- Excellent communication skills in English, both written, and verbal. Good command of the Dutch language, verbal and written
- Living in the Netherlands
What will you get?
- 40 hours working week
- 25 days of leave per year plus 13 days ADV based on full time employment
- Professional development opportunities
- Hybrid working options
- Company laptop
- Flexible benefits budget
- Pension allowance in accordance with the Dutch law
- International working environment with colleagues across five countries
- Frequently company organized trips, drinks, and festivities
What will you do?
- 20% Leading and directing a team
- 30% Arranging vessel drafting and calculations and ensuring regulatory compliance within project teams
- 20% Planning and executing projects
- 15% Communicating and liaising with clients
- 10% Implementing continuous improvement and development
- 5% Reporting to project manager
This vacancy has been created based on interviews with employees to help you get a realistic preview of the job.
I'm interested
Do you have a question or are you interested? Contact us.Monique Reulink
HR Business Partner
Vacancy
As a Lead Naval Architect at C-Job Naval Architects, you play a key role in shaping vessel designs, driving innovation, and ensuring feasibility from concept to execution. Whether developing new floating assets, modifying existing ships, or optimizing current designs, you thrive in tackling complex engineering challenges. You understand what makes a ship perform—stability, strength, resistance, motion behaviour and use this knowledge to develop a strategic project approach, focusing on the right aspect in the right moment to ensure the effective development of the design in line with the clients needs and wishes.
You will lead conceptual and basic design efforts, assessing feasibility, investment costs, and performance early in the process. Your hands-on approach allows you to develop initial design concepts yourself while also guiding a team of naval architects. You will work closely with other disciplines—structural, mechanical, and hydrodynamic engineers—to create integrated designs that meet technical and commercial goals.
As the primary point of contact for clients, suppliers, and internal stakeholders, you ensure transparent communication throughout the design, production, and commissioning phases. You will also oversee external design agencies when needed, making sure project objectives are met efficiently.
Your role offers an exciting opportunity to work on cutting-edge offshore and commercial vessel projects. You’ll be part of a dynamic team where innovation and problem-solving drive success. With international collaboration and challenging projects ahead, you will have the chance to make a lasting impact in the maritime industry.
If you enjoy coordinating marine systems engineering work in multidisciplinary teams, and you find it challenging to translate client requirements into technical drawings, then this is the job for you.
Working week
On an enjoyable day, you see your team collectively achieve a design that meets the client's expectations, and it's particularly rewarding when multiple team members, including yourself, gain new experiences or skills, thereby strengthening the team.
On a less enjoyable day, you encounter unexpected problems in the design which need to be solved under significant time pressure to prevent construction from coming to a standstill.
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- Project meeting
- Lunch
- Stand up meeting
- Planning weekly tasks
- Calling with client
- Analyzing client's requirements
- Designing and reviewing technical drawings
- Conducting design calculations
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- Reading and replying to mails
- Following up project plans and updates
- Lunch
- Implementing client's design choices
- Preparing for client's status update meeting
- Conducting design calculations
- Calling with client
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- Reading and replying to mails
- Attending client's status update meeting
- Incorporating feedback into design plans
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- Reviewing and monitoring project progress
- Collaborating with the team on design adjustments
- Conducting design calculations
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- Team stand up meeting
- Lunch
- Providing technical guidance to the team
- Meeting with project manager
- Liaising with suppliers
- Finalizing design adjustments
- Coordinating with other departments for design modification
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- Working on Research & Development project
- Lunch
- Project meeting
- Reading and replying to mails
- Solving an ad-hoc problem together with the team
- Analyzing client's requirements
- Designing and reviewing technical drawings
Firsthand experience
Growth
A lead naval architect is advancing to a role as an expert or project manager. Both 'horizontal' in-depth development as well as 'vertical' development are possible in this progression.
Working at C-Job Naval Architects
C-Job Naval Architects is an independent ship design and engineering company that operates worldwide, boasting a global team of dedicated engineers, R&D consultants, supervisors, and project managers.
At C-Job, they co-create designs with their clients, incorporating their knowledge, skills, innovation, and ingenuity into each design. They have a strong track record of projects in various industries, with a focus on dredging, offshore, passenger vessels, yachts, and commercial vessels for both national and international clients.
Their dedicated Research and Development team consistently seeks new ways to improve and innovate their designs and creation processes, focusing on alternative energy sources, autonomous shipping, and data science.
- Dutch headquarters in Hoofddorp
- Active in 6 countries
- 90 employees in The Netherlands
- 200 employees worldwide
- 22% / 78%
- Average age 36 years
- Business casual
- Hybrid working is part of the C-Job way of working
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