Continuous Improvement Lead

About us

Get on board with Damen Naval, along with more than 1,200 professionals based in The Netherlands, Romania, and Germany. We are the naval division of the family-owned Damen Shipyards Group which employs 12,000 professionals globally. Damen Naval designs and builds advanced naval vessels for customers all over the world. With a passion for technological innovation and sustainable solutions, we continue to push the boundaries in naval shipbuilding. You can be part of our team! Are you ready for duty?

The role

As the Continuous Improvement Lead at Damen Naval, you will be responsible for the execution and optimization of continuous improvement quality assurance (QA) processes and procedures in each of our naval shipbuilding projects. You oversee, advise, and report about quality issues related to the project(s) you are assigned to. When an issue is identified, you initiate a root-cause analysis to identify the non-conformities and update the overall quality policy and standards to prevent reoccurrence and achieve continuous improvement.

Key accountabilities

As the Continuous Improvement Lead, your key responsibilities will include:

• Coordinating the continuous improvement processes and foster a quality mindset in each shipbuilding project.
• Ensuring quality management principles, protocols, and processes are correctly applied.
• Leading the Project Quality team.
• Creating the QA registration system processes and ensuring it is kept complete and updated.
• Participating in project and department progress meetings.
• Updating project management about the quality assurance status and incident mitigations.
• Liaising with the Government Quality Assurance Representative (GQAR) and providing all QA information.

Skills & experience

To excel as the Continuous Improvement Lead, you should possess the following qualifications and qualities:

• 5+ years of experience in (ISO 9001) Quality Management, preferably acquired in the naval, defense or shipbuilding industry.
• Experienced with manufacturing techniques and processes, preferably in the naval shipbuilding industry.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Technical Business Administration, Maritime Technology or Shipbuilding.
• Good command of the Dutch and English language, both written and spoken.
• Excellent references antecedents as a pre-employment security screening is standard part of the recruitment procedure.
• Permanent EU citizenship and passport are both required and candidates with NL/EU (work) visa or with both an EU and non-EU nationality and/or passport are not eligible in accordance with the requirements imposed by the military nature of our projects.

What we offer

At Damen Naval, we highly value our employees, and we will support your professional and personal development. We also provide our employees with:

• A competitive salary and 8% holiday pay.
• 27 holidays and 13 ADV days.
• Travel allowance of 23 cents per kilometre.
• PME-pension arrangement with an employer contribution of 60%.
• Profit sharing based on company results.
• Working from home policy and other benefits including a bicycle plan and company fitness.

Other

Are you interested in the position of Continuous Improvement Lead, kindly submit your application along with your CV and motivation letter, along with an indication of:

• Your (preferred) monthly gross salary based on fulltime work.
• Availability (fulltime / part-time / number of hours).
• Notice period / possible starting date.

For more information about the vacancy or Damen Naval, please visit the Damen Naval website, the Damen Naval Career website or call the Corporate Recruitment department on +31 (0)118- 485 000.

Please note that due to the military nature of our projects, only candidates who have permanent EU nationality can be considered for vacancies at Damen Naval. Unfortunately, we are not allowed to process candidates who (also) have a non-EU passport or nationality. A pre-employment and security screening and investigation form part of the recruitment process.

Damen Naval does not approve commercial, contractor and/or agency or other commercial use of this advertisement. Proposing candidates without invitation is not appreciated and they will not be considered.