What is required?
- HBO/WO or equivalent experience in marine technology
- A minimum of five years of experience in marine engineering
- Basic understanding or experience in Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and familiarity with Ansys is a plus
- Strong stakeholder management regarding the team, project manager and client
- Optimistic, energetic, and social personality
- Pragmatic, structured, and accurate way of working and ability to work with deadlines
- Ability to take initiative and work independently as well as in a team
- Able to direct calculations
- Excellent communication skills in English, both written, and verbal. Dutch language skills are a bonus
- Prepared to train / coach junior / medior peers
- 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?
- 30% Engineering and finding technical solutions
- 30% Managing the team
- 10% Creating and maintaining the project planning
- 10% Performing quality controls and internal checks
- 10% Supporting the project manager
- 10% Communication with clients and stakeholders
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Monique Reulink
HR Business Partner
Vacancy
As a Lead Structural Engineer at C-Job Naval Architects, your key responsibility is to ensure the successful execution and delivery of high-quality structural designs for a diverse array of vessels and floating structures. This role demands your technical expertise in creating the initial project plan, encompassing applicable standards, scope list, planning, risk analysis, and budget.
Your role will further demand effective leadership in managing the engineering team and tasks, ensuring that the projects are executed on schedule, within the budget, and to the highest standards. These projects may range from designing individual components of vessels to planning and executing comprehensive designs for entire structures. You will also handle the accurate registration and administration of hours spent within your discipline, monitor and report on project progress, and implement quality control measures.
In addition to these responsibilities, you are accountable for providing suitable technical solutions for the client's projects, managing their expectations on a technical level. Furthermore, you are responsible for overseeing communication within the team as well as with the client concerning supplier information and client requirements. Building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders is integral to this role, alongside fostering close cooperation with the project manager, supporting them during change management and project control.
Joining the structural department, you'll lead a multifaceted team whose size and structure adapt to project needs. Your joint efforts span various projects across offshore, yacht construction and dredging sectors. This role offers a opportunity to work on multiple projects concurrently, each unique in its scope and scale. The global reach of C-Job also means you get to collaborate with colleagues from different offices worldwide.
If you enjoy embracing diversity in projects and tasks, from calculations to planning, and find it challenging yet rewarding to maintain composure under time pressure while finding the best solutions, then this is the job for you.
Working week
On an enjoyable day, you start with a new project or tackle a technical challenge. In both cases the technical knowledge and team work is key to find the best approach.
On a less enjoyable day, you have to solve a technical problem under time pressure. It is important to remain calm and to ensure that a solution is found in time together with the team.
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- Reading and replying to mails
- Performing engineering tasks, including calculations and assessments
- Lunch
- Calling with client
- Reviewing and monitoring project progress
- Solving a technical issue
- Stand up meeting
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- Reading and replying to mails
- Working on a project planning
- Working on a risk analysis of a project
- Project meeting
- Lunch
- Performing engineering tasks, including calculations and assessments
- Contact with stakeholder
- Processing administration
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- Preparing a client meeting
- Meeting with client
- Following up action points
- Lunch
- Performing a quality control and internal check
- Performing engineering tasks, including calculations and assessments
- Reviewing and monitoring project progress
- Reading and replying to mails
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- Reading and replying to mails
- Meeting with project manager
- Performing engineering tasks, including calculations and assessments
- Lunch
- Evaluating a finished project
- Project meeting
- Calling with client
- Processing administration
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- Working on change management and project control
- Calling with stakeholder
- Performing engineering tasks, including calculations and assessments
- Lunch
- Working on a project planning
- Performing engineering tasks, including calculations and assessments
- Reading and replying to mails
- Calling with client
Firsthand experience
Growth
A lead structural engineer 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