Project Manager Powering Hydrodynamics & Naval Architecture Job in Wageningen, Netherlands

Reliable, independent and innovative
MARIN, the Maritime Research Institute Netherlands, has become a reliable, independent and innovative service provider for the maritime sector and a contributor to the well being of society. We take initiative to couple our own expertise to various application areas to broaden our ability to solve problems. By maintaining our leadership position in hydrodynamic and nautical research and development, we make our accumulated know-how and experience available for Concept Development, Design Support, Operations Support and Tool Development. This commitment to high-quality technological innovation enables you to meet the challenges facing your industry today.

A dual mission
We have a dual mission: to provide industry with innovative design solutions; and to carry out advanced research for the benefit of the maritime sector as a whole. In this way, we strengthen the link between academic research and market needs. It is a unique interaction that benefits all parties concerned. The driving force behind this dual mission is a team of highly motivated and experienced people. MARIN is innovative, independent and above all, reliable.

Pro-active response to market needs
By feeding back the results of advanced research programmes into commercial projects, MARIN has created a powerful synergy with the maritime industry. This industry is being confronted with shorter cycle times and increasing global competition in challenging environmental and economic conditions. By becoming involved in projects as early as possible, MARIN can help meet these challenges. Our customers include commercial ship builders, fleet owners, navies, naval architects and offshore companies the world over.

Project Manager Powering Hydrodynamics & Naval Architecture Job Description

Your future team
Guilhem Gaillarde, Ships business unit manager: ‘We are a team of 100 professionals, all extremely driven to help designing smarter, safer and better ships and inspire our clients to bring innovative solutions in their projects. Our clients, located worldwide, include shipyards, naval architects, suppliers, ship owners, classification societies or institutions. We deal with quite a variety of ship types, different requirements depending on ship owners background and goal, different design strategies depending on the yard, variable economical and regulation context, which makes our work very challenging but also extremely interesting! To answer the questions of our clients, to support their ambitions, to manage their limitations or to reduce their risk, we need to adapt constantly our technical approach and the tools we are proposing, from rapid and robust estimations, towards simple tests or calculations, up to refined simulations and complex experiments. Whatever the proposed solution, we always focus at delivering quality, trustful and independent answers. Our reward is to see better ships sailing in the Netherlands and around the globe and to have clients learning and building with us trustful long-term relations.
 
Your future role
You will be in charge of all aspects related to your projects: contact with the client, elaboration of proposals, management of project, technical implementation, interpretation of the results, reporting, but also tool development, acquisition and new business development. You‘ll be expected to supervise different types of projects and situations. On one hand, advice at concept level and support for optimising the ship performance. On the other hand, thanks to our unique independent position, verification of the performance of given design choices. This will require excellence in using all type of methodologies available at MARIN (numerical and experimental). If you want to tackle such challenge, are interested in developing state of the art expertise in ships hydrodynamics and want to help shipyards and naval architects creating the ships of tomorrow, you are welcome onboard!’

 

Project Manager Powering Hydrodynamics & Naval Architecture Job Requirements

Our requirements
Jaap van Heerd, Senior Project Manager/Team Leader Cruise & Ferry:
We are looking for an enthusiastic candidate with a degree in Maritime Technology and experienced in Hydrodynamics and Naval Architecture. We expect you to be service-oriented and customer-focused, as well as being skilled at reporting and giving presentations. You should also have a excellent command of the English language and daring to learn Dutch if it is not your mother language. We are also looking for someone who is a team player and can also take many initiatives for improvements.’
 
What we offer
Martine Clarenbach, HR advisor: ‘Working at MARIN is really quite special. Since we have a very wide scope, no day on the job is ever quite the same. You will be working on intellectually challenging projects while also interacting closely with clients throughout. You will be given every opportunity to push the boundaries of your profession. This means that you will be able to develop more quickly here than just about anywhere. You will see the results of your work in fascinating international projects.’

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