Senior Automation Engineer Digital Enablement Team

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Help shape the future of engineering at Heerema by turning repetitive work and complex challenges into smart, scalable digital solutions.

Great engineering shouldn’t be slowed down by repetitive work. At Heerema, engineers across our disciplines continuously see opportunities to automate, digitalise and work smarter. As Senior Automation Engineer, you have the opportunity to help turn those ideas into real impact.

You help shape how digitalisation develops across Engineering king closely with Engineering, Technology and IT & Digital, you identify opportunities, scope solutions and help determine which initiatives create the most value.

Your role goes beyond individual solutions. You bring structure and direction to the digitalisation roadmap, align stakeholders and help ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable and fit within Heerema’s wider digital landscape. As a sparring partner to the Digital Enablement Team Lead, you help shape practical ways of working as the team continues to grow.

Your development background gives you the technical depth to challenge decisions and contribute hands‑on when needed. Your real impact lies in connecting engineering, technology and people to turn good ideas into solutions that make engineering at Heerema smarter and more effective.

• Roadmap & Portfolio Development: Helping shape the engineering digitalisation roadmap and portfolio, aligning priorities with business value and available capacity, and creating transparency around initiatives, decisions, dependencies and progress.
• Solution Scoping: Working closely with engineers and stakeholders to understand challenges, identify digitalisation opportunities and translate business needs into clear and practical solution directions.
• Stakeholder Alignment: Connecting Engineering, Technology and IT & Digital, challenging requirements where needed and creating alignment around priorities, ownership and technical direction.
• Delivery & Scalability
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  Supporting technical decision‑making and ensuring solutions align with agreed architecture, security, platform and lifecycle standards.
• Value & Adoption:Validating solutions with end users, assessing their value and supporting successful adoption within engineering disciplines.
• Engineering Enablement:Guiding engineers and citizen developers in turning ideas into sustainable solutions, while promoting good practices around quality, reusability and maintainability.
• Technical Guidance:Using your development experience to assess approaches, challenge design decisions and contribute hands‑on where your expertise adds value.

• Education: Master’s degree in engineering or computer science, with a strong affinity for engineering.
• Engineering & Digitalisation: Strong understanding of engineering workflows and the ability to identify and shape automation opportunities.
• Stakeholder Management: Able to challenge requirements, align different stakeholders and translate engineering needs into practical solutions.
• Structure & Prioritisation: Experience bringing structure and ownership to digital initiatives and setting the right priorities.
• Technical Foundation: Practical software development experience, particularly in Python, to assess solutions and challenge technical decisions.
• Mindset: A pragmatic, collaborative approach with the ability to combine strategic thinking with getting things done.

Experience with C++, RAG, Knowledge Graphs or engineering information architecture

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