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Job | Senior Naval Architect | Rotterdam Area

Rotterdam, Nederland

Job description

  • Role: Senior / Lead Naval Architect
  • Workplace: Rotterdam
  • Start: August 2026
  • Duration: Temporary to permanent position
  • Contract: Full-time employment
  • Focus: Offshore vessel design, naval architecture, analysis, class requirements, and yard support

As a Senior Naval Architect, you will work on offshore vessel projects where technical detail and practical execution go hand in hand. You will be involved from concept design through to basic and detailed design, and you may also support the project during yard or site activities.

Your job is to deliver naval architecture work that is technically correct, safe, cost-aware, and aligned with the project planning. On some projects, you will be part of a wider team. On others, you may lead a small team of Naval Architects and Designers.

Where You’ll Work:

You will join an international offshore engineering company. The team works on challenging offshore vessel projects and collaborates closely with other engineering disciplines, clients, certifying authorities, subcontractors, and shipyards.

This is not a role where your work stays only on paper. Your designs and analyses need to support real project decisions, practical vessel solutions, and the work being done at the site or in the yard.

What You’ll Be Working On:

You will work on the design and analysis of offshore vessels. That includes hydrostatic, hydrodynamic and structural analyses, as well as finite element and fatigue analysis where required.

You will help turn project requirements, class rules and client expectations into safe and cost-efficient vessel designs. You will also answer technical questions from site, clients, certifying authorities and subcontractors, so projects can keep moving with clear engineering input.

What You’ll Do:

  • Deliver naval architecture work in line with project specifications, budget and planning.
  • Work on concept design, basic design, detailed design and yard support for offshore vessels.
  • Carry out and review hydrostatic, hydrodynamic, structural, finite element and fatigue analyses.
  • Lead or coordinate Naval Architects and Designers when required.
  • Organise the scope, priorities and deliverables within your part of the project.
  • Keep the Lead Engineer or Project Engineer informed about progress, setbacks and concerns.
  • Spot technical risks or unusual issues and raise them early.
  • Reply to questions from site, clients, certifying authorities and subcontractors.
  • Work with other disciplines to include class and client requirements in the design.
  • Support activities abroad or at a shipyard when the project needs it.

Profile

What You Bring;

  • A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Naval Architecture, Offshore Engineering or a related field.
  • More than 6 years of relevant experience, preferably in the offshore industry.
  • Experience as a lead engineer, owner’s representative or in a comparable technical role.
  • Experience organising engineering scope and guiding a team.
  • Knowledge of hydrostatic, hydrodynamic, finite element and fatigue analysis.
  • Good knowledge of international design codes and class regulations.
  • Good English communication skills, both spoken and written.
  • A practical, organised way of working.
  • The confidence to take ownership and solve technical problems in a project environment.

What’s In It For You?

  • A full-time role of 40 hours per week in an international offshore engineering environment.
  • A good salary, based on your experience.
  • Additional employment benefits such as holiday allowance, travel allowance and pension benefits.
  • A generous number of paid vacation days.
  • The option to purchase extra vacation days, depending on company policy.
  • Work on technically interesting offshore vessel projects.
  • A role with real contact between design, analysis, certification and yard support.
  • A proper onboarding process to help you settle in.
  • A professional team environment with room to connect with colleagues outside the day-to-day work.

Interested?

Are you an experienced Naval Architect who wants a role with technical depth, project responsibility, and a clear link to real offshore vessel design? Apply for this Senior Naval Architect position and take the next step in your engineering career.

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