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About us
Hop aboard Damen Naval; the naval division of the family-owned Damen Shipyards Group, where 12,000 professionals work worldwide. Damen Naval delivers advanced naval vessels to clients all over the globe. By implementing the most innovative technological developments in practice, we continue to push the boundaries of the shipbuilding industry. You can be part of our team! Are you ready for duty?
The role
As a Technical Application Engineer at Damen Naval, you are responsible for implementing, maintaining, and optimizing pivotal technical applications that support our maritime and defense‑related projects. You ensure application availability, security, and operational stability, while managing the full technical lifecycle—from configuration and upgrades to integrations and troubleshooting.
In this role, you will collaborate closely with IT teams, functional owners, and external vendors to ensure our application landscape remains stable, secure, and aligned with operational and strategic needs.
Key accountabilities
In the role of Technical Application Engineer, your responsibilities will include:
Designing and maintaining secure, scalable technical application solutions.
Performing technical application management (configuration, maintenance, upgrades, patching) while ensuring application availability.
Monitoring application performance, resolving incidents, and conducting root cause analysis.
Implementing and maintaining application‑level security controls.
Managing integrations between applications, infrastructure, identity services, and external systems.
Providing support for application related changes and incidents.
Actively contributing to continuous improvement of application platform while ensuring compliance with internal policies and procedures and keep track of required technical documentation
Actively sharing knowledge which contributes to expertise development within the department.
Skills & Experience
As a Technical Application Engineer you recognize yourself in the following profile:
MBO-4 or Bachelor’s degree (3-5 years experience) within Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Science, or a related field.
Solid understanding of enterprise application architectures (client‑server, multi‑tier, web, SaaS).
Relevant certifications include Microsoft, Citrix, 3DX, Primavera, where ITIL Foundation is considered as a plus
Hands‑on experience with installation, configuration, and technical operation of applications.
Strong troubleshooting skills across OS, middleware and connectivity layers.
Familiarity with security principles such as hardening and access control.
Preferably experience in the maritime, defense, or engineering sector.
Excellent command of the English language, with proficiency in Dutch being advantageous.
Excellent references, as a security screening is part of the hiring process.
Permanent EU citizenship and passport are both required. Candidates with 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.
Flexibility to work from home up to two days a week.
Additional benefits including a bicycle plan and company fitness.
Application & information
Are you interested in this position, please submit your application with your CV and cover 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 contact the Corporate Recruitment department via +31 118 485 000.
A pre-assignment and security screening and investigation form part of the recruitment process.
Acquisition and introduction of candidates without a formal request is not appreciated and they will not be considered.
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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.
