Your Job

As a Lead Engineer of Naval Architecture, you oversee the daily operations within the naval architecture domain. Collaborating closely with various engineering disciplines and other departments at IHC, you ensure that work aligns with customer specifications, as well as technical and operational standards, to enhance production efficiency and maximize the vessels' quality, safety, sustainability, and efficiency.

Naval Architecture encompasses four sub-disciplines: Hydromechanics, Hull, Outfit and Accommodation, and Safety.

You have the following tasks and responsibilities:

• Daily management of the Naval discipline

• Supervise and coach the basic engineers naval architecture

• Check the basic engineering documents and give feedback on it

• Contact with suppliers in cooperation with IHC Supply chain management

• Contact with classification societies and customers

• Keep in touch with production engineering and production

You work in a project team together with colleagues from other disciplines but also from other IHC departments (e.g. production engineering, production).

Your Profile

To be considered as our Lead Engineer Naval Architecture you meet the following requirements:

• you have obtained a Bachelor or Master degree in Naval Architecture or other technical discipline (e.g. mechanical engineering);

• you have at least 5 years of relevant working experience (for instance as basic engineer naval architecture);

• you have excellent analytical, communication and problem solving skills;

• you have a proactive, creative and flexible attitude;

• you have an excellent command of English, with moderate Dutch skills preferable;

• you are able and willing to travel abroad.

Our offer

Royal IHC offers the suitable candidate the unique opportunity to work for a successful worldwide leader. We also offer you a challenging job within a financially successful and dynamic company, a local labor contract, competitive salary and benefits package and a range of opportunities for further professional development.

Our organisation

As Lead Engineer you will work at the FD Engineering. The FD Engineering team engineers and produces complex custom-built and standard offshore and dredging vessels. The team is based in Kinderdijk in The Netherlands. The FD Engineering is part of Royal IHC (IHC), the global market leader in the construction of specialized ships for wet mining and dredging activities, and an important player in the field of complex custom-built offshore ships. However, we don't stop there. For every ship, we also develop advanced equipment that is integrated seamlessly. In addition, we offer life-cycle support to our customers, which is available worldwide and for the lifetime of our products. If you look at our customer base, you will find prominent dredging companies, oil and gas conglomerates, offshore contractors and national governments. With offices worldwide, IHC has an international orientation. For more information about IHC please check: www.royalihc.com.