Damen

Head of Production Support Workshop

Damen  •  Galaţi, RO (Onsite)  •  3 months ago
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Head of Production Support Workshop

About us

Damen Shipyards Group has been in operation for over ninety years and offers maritime solutions worldwide, through design, construction, conversion and repair of ships and ship components. By integrating systems, Damen creates innovative, high-quality platforms, which provide our customers with maximum added value.

The Group’s core values are fellowship, craftsmanship, entrepreneurship and stewardship whereas its goal is to become the world’s most sustainable shipbuilder, via digitalization, standardization and serial construction of its vessels and through use of circular materials.

Damen operates 35 shipyards and 20 other companies in 20 countries supported by a worldwide sales and service network. The Group delivers in the region of 100 vessels per year, with a total production value of over 3 billion euros and offers direct employment to approximately 12,500 people.

Since joining the Damen Shipyards Group in 1999, Damen Shipyards Galaţi, currently the group’s top exporter of high-end complex vessels, has developed into a highly efficient production yard with significant output. Its expertise and closely managed supply chain have been behind some of Damen’s most important deliveries to date, fully illustrating the group’s diverse product portfolio.

The role

The Production Support Workshop Manager is responsible for ensuring the effective and uninterrupted operation of all auxiliary services supporting shipbuilding activities at Galati Shipyard. The role provides overall oversight of the workshop’s teams and resources, fosters operational excellence, and ensures full alignment with production objectives, safety standards, and quality requirements.

Key accountabilities

Workshop Operations & Team Management

  • Oversee all production support services, including temporary shipboard installations, internal vessel maneuvers and towing, internal material and equipment transport, crane operations, and ship preparation and launching activities
  • Lead and manage workshop teams, ensuring efficient task execution, performance evaluation, and identification of training needs

Budget & Performance Management

  • Manage the allocated budget and provide regular consumption reporting
  • Ensure achievement of assigned KPIs in line with production and management objectives

Planning & Resource Coordination

  • Plan and monitor workshop activities to ensure deadlines are met
  • Ensure availability of all necessary resources, including materials, equipment, machinery, and personnel

Compliance & Operational Standards

  • Implement and enforce internal procedures, health and safety regulations, and quality standards
  • Collaborate closely with Production, Technical, and Logistics departments to ensure smooth operational workflow

Skills & experience

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (or related technical field)
  • Minimum 3 years of experience in a similar position
  • English – intermediate level

Personal qualities (psychological mentality, social skills)

  • Leadership and team coordination abilities
  • Strategic and results-oriented mindset
  • Strong organizational and planning skills
  • Problem-solving and analytical thinking
  • Effective communication and cross-functional collaboration
  • Commitment to safety, quality, and operational excellence
  • Adaptability and proactive approach to challenges


Recruiter:

Antonella Violeta Stefan

Email:

antonella.stefan@damen.com

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Damen

About Damen

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.

Industry
Manufacturing & Production
Company Size
5,001-10,000 employees
Headquarters
Gorinchem, NL
Year Founded
Unknown
Website
damen.com
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