Senior Mechanical Engineer
C-Job Naval Architects Rotterdam
What is required?
- HBO/WO or equivalent experience in mechanical engineering and marine technology
- A minimum of five years relevant working experience in mechanical engineering and marine technology
- Experience working as part of a vessel crew or as a vessel crew manager is a bonus
- Experience as a Chief Engineer or an Electrical Technical Officer is a bonus
- Resilient and analytically minded
- Optimistic, energetic, and social personality
- Pragmatic, structured, and accurate way of working
- Ability to create 2D or 3D technical drawings and system schemas and Experience with retrofitting
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to work with deadlines
- 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 in the Netherlands
- International working environment with colleagues across five countries
- Frequently company organized trips, drinks, and festivities
What will you do?
- 40% Engineering and finding technical solutions
- 20% Supporting fellow engineers with questions and/or problems
- 15% Performing administration, quality controls and internal checks
- 15% Communication with clients and stakeholders
- 10% Meetings with project teams
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Monique Reulink
HR Business Partner
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As a Senior Mechanical Engineer at C-Job Naval Architects, you are responsible for the design and integration of technical systems onboard ships or other floating structures. These systems pertain to propulsion, energy supply, and those required for the crew and passengers, such as potable and waste water provisions, and ventilation, AC, and/or heating. Your daily challenge is to ensure regulations and client requirements seamlessly integrate into a well-functioning, efficient ship design.
You use your professional maturity and years of experience to actively participate in internal and external project kick-offs. Leveraging a range of software programs, you design, develop, and test technical solutions. You create 2D or 3D technical drawings and system diagrams, which are supported and verified through your calculations.
As a senior engineer, you are expected to mentor, coach, and educate less experienced engineers, ensuring their work meets high-quality standards before it's sent to the client. You also support the lead engineer in managing client and stakeholder expectations at a technical level and communicate engineering choices with other disciplines within the project. Depending on the size of a project, you also have direct contact with the client.
Joining the mechanical department, you'll collaborate with 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 an 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 devising solutions for complex technical issues as part of a team, and you find it challenging to work in an iterative approach, rather creating new solutions, then this job is for you.
Working week
On an enjoyable day, you and your team have found a solution for a complex technical issue. You are proud and stand behind your idea that can be sent to the client.
On a less enjoyable day, you're stuck in a project that requires constant adjustments. You then lean on your creativity and persist until all stakeholders accept the proposed solution.
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- Reading and replying to mails
- Performing engineering tasks, including calculations and assessments
- Lunch
- Meeting with lead mechanical engineer
- Solving a technical issue
- Stand up meeting
- Coaching and mentoring junior engineers
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- Team stand up meeting
- Project meeting
- Lunch
- Performing engineering tasks, including calculations and assessments
- Contact with client
- Processing administration
- Performing a quality control and internal check
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- Preparing a client meeting
- Attending a client meeting
- Following up action points
- Lunch
- Performing a quality control and internal check
- Performing engineering tasks, including calculations and assessments
- Reading and replying to mails
- Contact with stakeholder
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- Reading and replying to mails
- Team stand up meeting
- Performing engineering tasks, including calculations and assessments
- Lunch
- Kick-off meeting new project
- Processing administration
- Coaching and mentoring junior engineers
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- Performing engineering tasks, including calculations and assessments
- Lunch
- Project meeting
- Performing engineering tasks, including calculations and assessments
- Performing a quality control and internal check
- Meeting with lead mechanical engineer
Firsthand experience
Growth
A senior mechanical engineer is advancing to a role as a lead, an expert, or a 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