Technical Subcontract Manager

Responsibilities

• Manage, coordinate and facilitate multiple subcontractors & suppliers during preparation and execution of a project with focus on short and medium term.
• Ensure full compliance of the Combat Systems products and services with all applicable requirements and specifications within agreed schedules, required quality and cost limits.
• Take ownership of integration activities in complex medium value projects and manages the corresponding subcontractors.
• Organize and/or participate in project reviews.
• Secure the execution and synchronization of project activities related to all deliverables and obligations of the subcontractor(s).
• Participate, as accepting party, during contractual milestones, tests and trials, such as FAT, HAT and SAT.
• Assist the warranty authority on all warranty issues that have been identified.
• Support in proposal evaluations, technical evaluations and cost/price analyses.
• Assist, and may become, the Combat System Integrator (CSI) in defining, establishing and validating (the testing of) all relevant functional and physical interfaces.

Requirements

• 5+ years of technical subcontract management experience dealing with international sub-contractors. Preferably acquired in the naval or shipbuilding sector.
• Relevant knowledge and experience with highly complex (combat) systems, preferably in the shipbuilding or naval sector.
• Solid communication skills and ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Good contract management skills and affinity with legal language and technical terminology.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a Technical direction.
• Good project management experience and ideally with project management qualification.
• Excellent command of the English language, Dutch and/or German language knowledge or willingness to learn.
• Excellent references antecedents as a pre-employment security screening is standard part of the recruitment procedure.
• Permanent EU citizenship and passport are both required and candidates with NL/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.