Junior Port Consultant | specialised in Dynamic Mooring Analysis

As a Dynamic Mooring Analysis (DMA) Port Consultant, you'll engage with cross-disciplinary teams, including civil engineers, naval architects, project managers and clients, both locally and internationally.

You will join our Maritime & Renewables team as a junior engineer at Haskoning, a top international engineering consultancy. You'll focus on understanding moored ship behaviour in ports through DMA projects, and its influence on port design and operations worldwide.

Your work will involve evaluating environmental conditions such as wind, waves, and currents, and determining their impact on mooring arrangements and port operations. You’ll use advanced software tools, modelling the intricate dynamics of moored vessel behaviour, and contributing to advancements in the field. You translate the outcomes of these models to advice on the design of safe and efficient mooring systems, assist with risk assessments, and help develop innovative solutions tailored to each unique port location.

This role offers the opportunity to work with various advanced software tools developed by Marin. These include aNySIM for the moored ship response, DIFFRAC for the hydromechanics properties and QSHIP to simulate the response of a sailing vessel. You will get the opportunity to learn to work with these software packages under guidance by senior staff. Access to these tools allows youto gain hands-on experience in performing simulations, conducting analyses, and contributing to innovative engineering solutions.

As part of your career development, you can expect mentorship from experienced professionals, exposure to diverse projects worldwide, and opportunities to enhance your technical and communication skills. By actively participating in client meetings and contributing to reports and presentations, you'll gain valuable insights into the maritime industry and play a key role in supporting the safe and sustainable expansion of global port infrastructure.

What you do as an expert in Dynamic Mooring Analysis in port engineering

The position is located in the Netherlands and requires significant collaboration with international offices, including those in Vietnam, Peru, Australia, and Dubai. You will participate in projects where a thorough understanding of the behaviour of moored vessels in ports—subject to wind, waves, currents, or passing ships—is vital for port development. Additionally, you will have an important role in advancing our digital product, Smart Mooring (link), as well as contributing to innovative projects related to channel width and depth design (Dynamic Underkeel Clearance assessments (DUKC)) and floating offshore wind initiatives. Your key responsibilities include:

 

• Executing DMA Projects, encompassing technical assessments, reporting, data management, and tooling (using Python). This also covers Smart Mooring projects alongside consultancy assignments.
• Managing and enhancing DMA Workflows & software, including the visualization of results.
• Designing mooring and fender systems utilizing proprietary in-house tools.
• Supporting the ongoing development of capabilities associated with channel width and depth design, specifically DUKC assessments using specialized software.
• Presenting findings and project content in both internal and external settings.

Where you will work

Royal HaskoningDHV is an independent, globally recognised consulting engineering firm committed to generating positive outcomes for both people and the environment. Supported by more than 6,000 professionals across over 20 countries and drawing on over 140 years of experience, we assist organisations in transforming local and international challenges within the built environment into opportunities, while supporting their transition to smart and sustainable operations.

Our Advisory Group Maritime & Renewables NL comprises approximately 200 professionals who collaborate closely on integrated projects spanning Ports, Waterways, Rivers, Coasts, and Renewable Energy sectors.

Within the Advisory Group Maritime & Renewables NL, you will join the Coastal-River-Maritime Structures-Dynamics team, which consists of around 30 highly motivated and supportive professionals, including specialists in Dynamic Mooring Analysis and port engineering. You will contribute to this driven and dynamic group by working on projects involving mooring configuration studies and identifying opportunities for improvement to facilitate increased port throughput and/or enhanced mooring safety (including metocean assessments, mooring design, analysis of moored ship responses, numerical modelling, and expert advisory services).

What you bring

We seek a motivated junior engineer to join our team and enhance our expertise in moored ship behaviour for port engineering projects. Candidates should meet these minimum qualifications:

 

• MSc degree in Maritime, Offshore, Civil, or Aerospace Engineering.
• Interest in ship hydromechanics and ship motions.
• Programming skills (Python preferred); physical model testing experience is a plus.
• Strong reporting and communication skills in English; Dutch preferred.
• Team player, able to collaborate with colleagues, clients, and partners, and willing to share knowledge with both junior and senior staff.
• Motivation to advance channel width and depth design capabilities.
• Eagerness to contribute to the digital innovation of our services, including our Smart Mooring product.

What we offer you

We offer you a stimulating environment where we put people first and where you are empowered to craft your own career path while working with and learning from the smartest people in our field. We prioritise our well-being by offering flexibility, support and a strong sense of community, all to ensure work and personal life go hand in hand. To make this concrete, we offer you:

• A competitive primary salary.
• Annual profit sharing, where 40% of our profit is distributed among employees and the opportunity to purchase company shares.
• Pension accrual through our own pension fund with an employer contribution of 18.3%.
• 15% personal budget that you can tailor to your preference - cash it out monthly or turn it into extra vacation time for those well-deserved breaks.
• 28 vacation days per year based on a 40-hour workweek and the option to buy 16.5 additional days.
• Many opportunities to develop yourself, such as our learning weeks, various development programs and access to a range of online courses on LinkedIn Learning.
• A conveniently located workplace at our office in locations and travel expense reimbursement or an NS-Business Card including a 40% discount on private travel.

 The full overview of our employee benefits in the Netherlands can be found here.

Are you our new colleague?

We would like to meet you! Click on the apply button and upload your resume and motivation letter. Do you have any questions about the role or the process? You can always contact Alex van Deyzen, Specialist DMA, at [email protected]

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