Technical Owner Naval Naval Architect

Technical Owner Naval (Naval Architect) SolarDuck IT Posted on Jul 12, 2026 Vacancy - Technical Owner Naval Company: SolarDuck Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands About Us: SolarDuck is a Dutch-Norwegian cleantech company bringing to market world-class Offshore Floating Solar solutions. The company aims to pioneer sustainable offshore energy solutions and save 50 million tonnes of CO2 emissions by 2040, by implementing its energy solutions on the planet's oceans. Join Us: Are you a dynamic, impact-driven Naval Architect eager to explore new solutions and thrive in a fast-paced, innovative environment? Do you have the leadership and expertise to help scale our solutions to save 50 million tonnes of CO2 emissions by 2040? If so, we want to hear from you. The Role: As Technical Owner Naval, you are responsible for the naval performance of our offshore floating platform. In more common market terms, this role sits at the intersection of naval architecture, hydrodynamics, floating offshore systems, mooring interfaces, umbilical integration, and model testing. You will own the naval engineering scope, including hydrodynamic behaviour, intact and damaged stability, mooring and station-keeping interfaces, umbilical system integration, and hydrodynamic model testing. This is not a narrow calculation role. You will combine hands-on engineering judgement with technical ownership, internal coordination, external partner direction, and review of specialist engineering work. You will work with internal Technical Owners, the Project Manager Engineering, the Procurement Lead, the CTO, Hydrodynamic , and external partners such as naval architecture firms, hydrodynamic engineering partners, maritime research institutes, classification and certification bodies, mooring contractors, and umbilical suppliers. You act as the internal discipline owner and maintain design control over naval engineering. Your role is to make sure that naval deci...