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About us
The Damen Shiprepair & Conversion division is part of the Damen Shipyards Group and operates a worldwide network of ship repair and conversion yards. We support maritime customers with high-quality repair, maintenance, conversion, and technical services.
To ensure reliable operations across our yards, digitalization and continuity of our business applications are key. To strengthen our IT organization, we are looking for a Functional Application Manager who will help keep our systems stable, improve functionality, and support our users.
The role
As a Functional Application Manager, you are the link between business and IT. You ensure that our core applications effectively support operational processes across multiple Shiprepair locations. You support users, coordinate improvements, and work closely with internal IT teams and external vendors.
This is a medior-level role for someone who enjoys combining functional analysis, stakeholder management, and hands-on application support in an international technical environment.
Key accountabilities
Support and manage business-critical applications within Damen Shiprepair.
Act as first point of contact for functional questions and incidents.
Translate business needs into functional improvements and optimizations.
Coordinate testing, implementations, and application updates.
Support users with training, documentation, and system usage.
Work closely with process owners, IT colleagues, and software suppliers.
Support incident, change, and application lifecycle management.
Skills & experience
A bachelor’s degree in IT, Business IT, or a related field.
Around 3+ years of experience in functional application management or application support.
Experience with ERP or operational systems (e.g. IFS, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics).
Understanding of business processes and system integrations.
A service-oriented, analytical, and structured way of working.
Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Good command of the English language and preferably also the Dutch language.
Experience in a maritime, industrial, or technical environment is a strong plus.
What we offer
Working at Damen means contributing to technically complex projects in a global maritime environment. We offer you:
A dynamic and international working environment.
A competitive salary and attractive secondary benefits, including 27 vacation days and 13 ADV days.
Hybrid working possibilities where applicable.
A strong focus on personal and professional development.
Career opportunities within the Damen Shipyards Group.
A collaborative and informal working culture.
Why join Damen?
At Damen Shiprepair & Conversion, you’ll have the opportunity to develop yourself in an international and technically driven working environment. We offer a workplace where reliability, collaboration, and continuous improvement are key. Together, we ensure the continuity and performance of vessels around the world, and shape the future of ship repair.
Recruiter:
Lilian Khan
Email:
lilian.khan@damen.com
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Oceans, seas, lakes and rivers offer growing possibilities in the areas of trade, food, energy and recreation. To ensure global prosperity for next generations and keep the earth habitable with an ever-increasing population, it is essential to utilise and protect these possibilities as efficiently and responsibly as possible.
Damen provides unprecedented maritime solutions for this, through design, shipbuilding, ship repair and related services. We offer versatile platforms that enable our customers to be successful and that raise the standard in terms of safety, reliability, efficiency and sustainability. We want to become the most sustainable shipbuilders in the world.
In the previous century, we revolutionized shipbuilding. Thanks to standardisation, we were able to supply our customers with better ships, faster. More than 90 years and 6,500 ships later, the importance of standardisation is only increasing in the light of zero-emissions and digitalisation.
We do not build our ships alone, but together with an extensive network from the international maritime cluster. We firmly believe in the power of sharing. It means that we also use our craftsmanship to build platforms on production facilities that are not ours. In this way, through knowledge transfer, we not only contribute to better, safer and more eco-friendly ships, but also to sustainable local development and prosperity.
We are a family owned business and stand for fellowship, craftsmanship, entrepreneurship and stewardship. Our playing field is the world. Our horizon is the long term. We firmly believe in our team, but also in the strength of the individual. Each colleague is an entrepreneur, focused on ensuring truly satisfied clients and making our contribution to a better world. In every aspect of our business the next generation is our starting point.
