What is required?
- HBO/WO or equivalent experience in naval architecture
- A minimum of five years of relevant working experience as naval architect for marine engineering and/or naval architectural projects
- Experience with stability and weight calculations, knowledge of ship resistance and powering
- DP calculations, mooring analysis, FEA, and CFD are a pre
- Optimistic, energetic, and social personality
- Pragmatic, structured, and accurate way of working
- Ability to take initiative and work independently
- Ability to work with deadlines
- Ability to lead and motivate a team and prepared to train / coach junior / medior peers
- Excellent communication skills in English, both written, and verbal. Dutch language skills are a bonus
- 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
- Discount on company fitness
- 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
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Monique Reulink
HR Business Partner
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As a Lead Naval Architect at C-Job Naval Architects, you are responsible for arranging vessel designs, managing the layout, stability, and safety elements. You will ensure compliance with regulatory measures, perform stability calculations, and coordinate multifaceted design aspects. Part of your role is to ensure that lessons learned from each project are incorporated into future designs, and you will also contribute to continuous improvement efforts.
You will lead a team of naval architects, providing guidance on design and technical issues, and working on standardizing and developing design rules. A key aspect of your role will be fostering a collaborative environment, distributing tasks clearly within your team, and motivating your team towards achieving project goals. As the lead, you will also establish a naval project execution plan in cooperation with other teams who focus on other disciplines, such as the structural and mechanical teams, ensuring high quality, cost-effectiveness, and alignment with client requirements.
Your responsibilities extend to translating client requirements into feasible design solutions and maintaining open lines of communication to provide regular project updates. You will act as the first point of contact for colleagues, clients, and suppliers during the design, production, commissioning, and after-sales service stages.
As part of your role, you will be part of one or more dedicated project teams. Your teams, each unique in its composition and size based on project requirements, will tackle a broad spectrum of projects in the offshore, yacht construction, and dredging sectors. You will report to the project manager. The global reach of C-Job also means you get to collaborate with colleagues from different offices worldwide.
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
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- Implementing client's design choices
- Preparing for client's status update meeting
- Conducting design calculations
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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