Internal Interface Coordinator

Royal IHC is looking for an Internal Interface Coordinator who wants to play a key role in the successful realization of one of our most complex maritime projects. In this position, you are the connecting factor between the ORKA team and the internal suppliers IHC Holland, IHC Interior, IHC Piping, and IHC Smit.

At Royal IHC, we realize innovative and technically high-quality projects in which multiple disciplines, systems, and teams come together. The success of these projects depends on seamless cooperation between all parties involved. You ensure that technical interfaces are clear, responsibilities are clearly assigned, and the right information is available at the right time.

You look beyond individual work packages and monitor the cohesion between engineering, production, and project execution. In doing so, you not only help prevent risks but also ensure that decisions, changes, and dependencies are implemented in a controlled manner.

In this role, you work closely with Project Managers, Production Managers, Engineering, Planning, Quality, and representatives from the various internal suppliers. You are the one who creates overview, connects parties, and ensures that everyone is working in the same direction.

• Coordinating the cooperation between ORKA, IHC Holland, IHC Interior, IHC Piping, and IHC Smit;
• Organizing and facilitating periodic interface, progress, and alignment meetings;
• Maintaining work packages, interfaces, contact persons, dependencies, and project milestones;
• Recording and following up on actions, decisions, open points, and information needs;
• Identifying overlap, gaps, dependencies, and unclear ownership between disciplines and suppliers;
• Escalating bottlenecks that impact scope, quality, planning, or project objectives;
• Monitoring that requirements, design principles, and technical agreements are correctly assigned;
• Aligning physical, functional, spatial, and informative interfaces between involved parties;
• Clarifying scope, responsibilities, inputs, outputs, and acceptance criteria;
• Assessing the impact of changes on planning, engineering, production, and execution;
• Recording risks, deviations, decisions, and associated action owners;
• Acting as the central point of contact for internal suppliers and work package owners;
• Reporting on progress, risks, bottlenecks, and required decision-making;
• Feeding back decisions and ensuring unambiguous communication towards all stakeholders.

We are looking for a technically strong coordinator who knows how to create overview in a complex project environment and knows how to effectively connect different disciplines.

• HBO (Higher Professional Education) level of working and thinking, for example in Mechanical Engineering, Naval Architecture, Industrial Engineering, or similar;
• Experience with engineering coordination, interface management, systems engineering, or work package coordination;
• Experience within complex technical project environments;
• Experience with multidisciplinary alignment between engineering, production, and project management;
• Experience within shipbuilding, offshore, maritime industry, or defense projects is a plus;
• Knowledge of requirements management, technical interfaces, and change management;
• Insight into engineering, procurement, production, installation, and verification processes;
• Ability to quickly see through dependencies between different workflows;
• Good command of the Dutch and English languages.

• You create structure in an environment with many stakeholders, dependencies, and technical challenges;
• You make ownership, responsibilities, and interfaces visible at an early stage;
• You are a natural connector who brings people and disciplines together;
• You are analytically strong and can quickly assess the impact of changes and decisions;
• You dare to make bottlenecks discussable and initiate escalations in a timely manner;
• You work carefully and ensure that agreements are actually followed up;
• You combine technical content with a pragmatic and result-oriented approach;
• You are persistent and know how to achieve results even without formal hierarchical authority.

This position is at the intersection of Engineering, Production, Project Management, and Systems Engineering. You are not responsible for one specific work package, but for the connection between all parties involved.

You ensure that interfaces, dependencies, and technical touchpoints are managed before they cause problems. Because of this, you have a direct influence on the progress, quality, and predictability of the project.

In this role, you are the pivot between four internal suppliers and the ORKA project team. It is precisely because of this central position that you play a crucial role in preventing delays, accelerating decision-making, and successfully realizing a unique maritime defense project.

Are you the one who brings technical disciplines, suppliers and project interests together and ensures that complex projects are executed in a controlled and predictable way? Then apply now as an Internal Interface Coordinator at Royal IHC.