Project Manager Engineering - Aquaculture & Fishing

Location: Stellendam

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About UsAt Damen Aquaculture & Fishing, we are dedicated to designing and delivering innovative vessels for the aquaculture and fishing industries. As a specialised product group within Damen Shipyards, we operate from Stellendam, the Netherlands, serving customers around the world.

Our portfolio includes aquaculture support vessels and fishing vessels that are developed in close collaboration with our clients and built at Damen shipyards worldwide. Designed to perform reliably in demanding environments, our vessels are supported throughout their lifecycle with expert service and maintenance.

As part of the Damen Group, we contribute to sustainable, efficient, and future-ready maritime solutions. With a strong focus on customer needs, technical excellence, and teamwork, we offer an ocean of possibilities for ambitious maritime professionals.

The Role As Project Manager Engineering, you take full ownership of the engineering process for international newbuild vessel projects within Damen’s Aquaculture & Fishing portfolio. You are the technical link between vessel requirements, naval architecture, supplier and vendor data, system integration, class requirements and production information, and you are responsible for validating and delivering the completed engineering packages.

You lead and coordinate both our in-house engineering teams and external engineering partners.

Your role goes beyond managing schedules, hours and deliverables: you ensure that all technical inputs come together in one coherent, buildable and verifiable vessel design.

With a completed degree in Naval Architecture, you understand the design spiral. You can challenge technical choices, identify interface risks and drive decision-making across disciplines.

Key Accountabilities You are accountable for the technical integrity of the engineering on each vessel project, ensuring that our standardised, repeatable vessel designs are delivered as safe, efficient and buildable vessels, supported by a complete, approved engineering package.

Your responsibilities include:

Take overall responsibility for the engineering scope, technical baseline and engineering deliverables, from contract handover through production support and commissioning to agreed close-out.

Translate customer, contractual, operational, statutory and classification requirements into clear engineering work packages, acceptance criteria and traceable technical deliverables.

Act as the central integration point for requirements, vessel design, vendor data, equipment interfaces and the engineering packages needed by procurement and the building yard.

Lead the naval architecture and multidisciplinary design process across hull, structure, stability, mechanical systems, electrical and automation systems, outfitting and mission equipment.

Plan and control design checks, basic engineering, detailed engineering and production support, including deliverable lists, budgets, hours, milestones and engineering schedules.

Functionally lead in-house engineers, lead engineers and specialists, and manage the scope, schedule, quality and performance of external engineering partners.

Define, manage and close interfaces between systems, spaces, structures, equipment and suppliers, ensuring that vendor data is complete, delivered on time, reviewed and correctly incorporated.

Coordinate technical reviews with suppliers, engineering partners, classification societies, flag-state authorities, customer representatives, the Product Group, the Project Manager and the building yard.

Review and approve engineering deliverables, ensuring that drawings, calculations, specifications, 3D models and production documentation are consistent,…