Jobs at Damen Shipyards Group

Build and maintain Damen’s ISO/IEC 27001:2022-aligned ISMS by documenting processes, formalizing controls, mapping risks to evidence, managing governance documentation, and supporting audits and certification readiness. The role includes process modelling in Mavim or similar platforms, gap assessments, remediation tracking, evidence management, stakeholder workshops, and continuous improvement across international business functions.

Own and develop Damen’s global direct tax processes, including transfer pricing, Pillar Two, Dutch tax compliance and accounting, M&A tax matters, and international tax advisory. The role manages tax projects, strengthens the Tax Control Framework, supports strategic decisions, collaborates with Finance, Legal, external advisors and tax authorities, and contributes to long-term tax strategy with a path toward Head of Tax.

Build and scale AI-powered applications, copilots, agents, automations, prototypes, and business solutions. Translate business challenges into AI solutions, integrate systems and data sources, evaluate emerging models and tools, and support production deployment. Collaborate with stakeholders and technical teams, develop AI best practices, create adoption materials, and promote secure, governed AI use. The role emphasizes hands-on experimentation, prompt engineering, agent orchestration, solution design, and measurable business impact.

Supervise electrical quality control activities throughout ship construction, including pre-inspection, material inspection, electrical installation monitoring, and supplier FAT witnessing. Review ITPs, procedures, specifications, and compliance with Damen standards and class rules. Investigate quality issues, issue and close NCRs, advise production on corrective actions, coordinate verification with project teams and class societies, and maintain inspection reports, progress records, outstanding-item lists, test reports, and material certificates.

Serve as the organization’s Power BI subject matter expert, shaping BI architecture, governance, development standards, security, deployment, reporting design, and performance optimization. Advise stakeholders and technical teams, review complex solutions, improve usability and data quality, reduce technical debt, coach developers, and guide adoption of Microsoft data-platform capabilities.

Design, develop, optimize, and govern enterprise Power BI dashboards, reports, semantic models, and data transformations. Translate stakeholder needs into scalable BI solutions, improve data quality and performance, establish governance and documentation practices, and resolve complex technical issues. The role also provides technical leadership through code reviews, mentoring, coaching, and continuous improvement across BI development and delivery.

Manage spare-parts sales for maritime customers across Africa, from identifying customer needs and preparing offers through coordinating procurement, logistics, deliveries, and order documentation. Maintain relationships with clients and suppliers, track multiple sales orders, and provide technical service support. The role requires proactive commercial communication, organization, initiative, and collaboration with regional and international teams.

Leads multidisciplinary shipbuilding projects from contract handover through vessel delivery and warranty closure. Coordinates engineering, procurement, production, quality, finance, commissioning, customers, and suppliers to meet safety, schedule, cost, quality, contractual, and class requirements. Owns project budgets, forecasts, risks, changes, customer communication, and financial performance while driving recovery actions, continuous improvement, digital reporting, and operational excellence.

Assists with maintenance planning, object registration, work-order updates, KPI reporting, materials control, supplier supervision, and asset liquidation. Supports facility upkeep, infrastructure projects, electrical and fire alarm system operation, energy-consumption optimization, landscaping, budgeting, drawings, and maintenance documentation. Requires technical education, Microsoft Office and AutoCAD proficiency, technical knowledge, and at least two years of relevant experience. Vietnamese language ability is required.

Provides hands-on HR support and advisory services to managers and employees across onboarding, offboarding, absenteeism, development, performance, engagement, training, and reporting. The role supports HR communications, international projects, talent and organizational development initiatives, and process improvements while gradually taking on greater responsibility in an international organization.

Manage technical projects for installing and delivering Damen’s Triton remote monitoring system on vessels. Responsibilities include planning, scope, budget, stakeholder and supplier coordination, technical requirements, installation resources, risk management, contract variations, and performance reporting. The role requires collaboration with customers, engineering, sales, contractors, and project teams, plus familiarity with ship systems, electrical schematics, networks, and serial interfaces.

Configure, develop, support, and continuously improve Damen’s Stibo STEP master data management platform. Responsibilities include building workflows, business rules, validations, data models, and integrations; resolving incidents; monitoring platform reliability; improving data quality; supporting governance and stewardship; documenting solutions; and collaborating with architects, engineers, product owners, vendors, and global stakeholders in Agile delivery environments.

Leads onboarding of data services and data objects into a Data Shared Service Centre, translating business needs into transformation plans and coordinating cross-functional delivery. Drives stakeholder engagement, communications, training, readiness, adoption, governance, operating-model implementation, service management, KPIs, SLAs, and continuous improvement across international business functions and regions.

Supports HSE system implementation across a shipyard by conducting workplace inspections and audits, managing permits, investigating incidents, monitoring contractors, delivering safety training, supporting emergency response and fire safety, and driving corrective actions and continuous improvement. The role ensures compliance with legal requirements, company standards, ISO 45001, ISO 14001, and relevant Vietnamese HSE regulations while collaborating with operational teams and external organizations.

The Commercial Manager will develop and execute commercial strategies, conduct market analysis, manage customer relationships, and lead the sales team. Responsibilities include product development, marketing campaigns, and budget management, alongside conducting contract negotiations.

Lead Damen’s data and AI governance capability, managing Data Stewards and related roles while developing governance frameworks, ownership models, data quality processes, metadata, lineage, access controls and responsible AI practices. Partner with business, IT, security, privacy, architecture, analytics and AI teams to embed practical governance across data platforms and business systems. Drive stakeholder adoption, organizational change, continuous data quality improvement and trusted data usage for reporting, analytics, automation and AI.

Provides legal advice on company operations, contracts, regulatory compliance, customs, investment, power supply, purchasing, and project matters. Drafts, reviews, and negotiates legal documents; monitors legislative developments; assesses legal risks; supports litigation; and coordinates with management, regulators, authorities, external counsel, and internal stakeholders.

Internship to analyze and automate the Chain Liability (WKA) process in Accounts Payable. Tasks: map current process, identify risks and bottlenecks, interview stakeholders, explore SAP and Process Director automation, design triggers for missing documentation, create compliance monitoring and audit-proof documentation, and deliver a process design plus implementation plan.

Leads enterprise Data and AI transformation by assessing maturity, defining roadmaps, shaping data architecture, and delivering measurable business value. Establishes data governance, ownership, stewardship, quality, lifecycle management, interoperability, and platform standards across systems including SAP, Workday, Salesforce, Azure, Fabric, and Databricks. Advises senior stakeholders, prioritizes AI and analytics use cases, facilitates workshops, coaches teams, and drives organizational change across a complex international organization.

The Project Controller manages financial control for shipbuilding projects across Vietnam. Responsibilities include monitoring budgets, margins, forecasts, cash flow, commitments, project progress, procurement, and cost risks; validating financial data against shipyard conditions; preparing reports and variance analyses; supporting Project Managers with financial insights; and maintaining accurate project records. The role requires frequent travel to shipyards and collaboration with finance teams in the Netherlands.