VENDOR DATA CONTROLLER (INTERIM)

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

For this interim position, Damen Naval is looking for a Vendor Data Controller who can start on a temporary basis for the period of 12 up to 24 months. As a Vendor Data Controller, you play an important supporting role in the delivery of state-of-the-art naval vessels. You ensure all involved stakeholders are provided with the most recent and accurate engineering data. The external stakeholders are the customer, partners, and subcontractors. However, the engineering teams working adjacent on the design of the naval vessels are also important internal stakeholders. As the custodian of the data, you ensure all data collected and sent is properly registered in our Product Data Management (PDM) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems. As crucial design decisions are as good as the data they are based upon, your impact to a successful new vessel is significant.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

As a Vendor Data Controller your key responsibilities will include:

• Checking all data received from and shared with the customer, partners and/or subcontractors for technical compliance, quality, and completeness.
• Processing, registering the checked data and distributing the data in different databases including Document Control.
• Pro-actively liaise internally with project engineering teams and other relevant stakeholders.
• Managing the various project mailboxes including distribution to the various team members.
• Generating and distributing of document control progress and status reports.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

As a Vendor Data Controller you should possess the following qualifications and qualities:

• Post-secondary vocational education (MBO) in Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering preferably with relevant work experience.
• Experience and affinity and with Product Data Management systems including Document Management.
• Extensive working experience with Microsoft Office suite.
• Competencies: accuracy, pro-active attitude, eye for detail, flexibility, and good interpersonal communication skills.
• Good command of the English language both written and verbal and preferably also Dutch and or German.
• 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 value our interim team members and strive for a positive and successful collaboration. As an interim professional on secondment basis (detachering) or as a freelancer (ZZP), we offer you the following conditions:

• An attractive rate, ensuring at least equal pay to permanent staff.
• Travel allowance of 23 cents per kilometre.
• Flexibility to work partially from home.
• Challenging and innovative projects.

OTHER

Are you interested in the interim position of Vendor Data Controller, kindly submit your application along with your CV and motivation letter. Please state your preferred agreement, secondment (detachering) or freelance (zzp) along with an indication of:

• Secondment: your monthly gross salary based on fulltime work.
• Freelance: your hourly rate.

For more information about the vacancy or Damen Naval, please visit the Damen Naval 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.

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