Join us

The job?

Inspiring and providing solutions to tackle the cause of problems, not the consequences. That’s what drives you? Are you someone who likes variety and challenges, independency and freedom combined with responsibility? Passionate about the sea, our oceans and the physics behind waves, currents, seabed changes, sediment transport and water-structure interactions? Are you interested in system thinking, design for offshore, ocean and coastal projects? Contributing to R&D projects related to large scale offshore aquaculture, offshore energy (wind, waves, tidal), climate change adaptation and nature enhanced design in an international context?

At HAEDES you find the opportunity to explore your passion and skills in various projects where you are responsible for the analysis of met-ocean conditions, seabed mobility, coastal morphology and the design of innovative and nature based solutions for challenges at our coasts, estuaries and oceans. Critical use of numerical models is a key element to support your solutions. You constantly search for innovation and will work on the edge between research and engineering.

Why you?

People make the difference! Sharing the same values provides connectivity and joy. We search for people who transform their experiences into development and solutions. You can expect a nurturing environment, surrounded with experts with passion, knowledge and a lot of humor.

To support the further growth of our team, we are looking for an experienced, coastal engineer passionate about numerical modelling. Trust, creativity, authenticity, autonomy and return on reputation are the core values that you want to share with us and our customers every day.

Do you recognize yourself into this profile?

You have:

• A master’s or PhD degree in marine/civil engineering or equivalent through experience.
• About maximum 5 years of relevant experience.
• Critical knowledge of and experience with numerical modelling: XBeach, Delft3D, SWASH, OpenFoam, SWAN, TELEMAC, etc.
• Familiar with the applicable standards and guidelines.
• Programming skills, preferable Matlab and/or Python.
• A sense for independency & responsibility.
• Communicative fluency and interest in managing projects.
• A flexible, growth-mindset and positive attitude.
• A live-learning attitude.
• Empathy, a constructive attitude to deal with different viewpoints and opinions.
• An interest in adventure, in the unknown and being a pioneer.

What do we offer?

At HAEDES you can be yourself. Combine your soul and science skills! You create time for reflection & your passions.

Growth and self-development

Your personal growth, passions and development is important for us. That is why we offer you a creative and stimulating environment with varied content in which you can further develop your expertise and passions.

We commit ourselves to offer you support with personal guidance and coaching, the opportunity to follow training courses and exchange knowledge with colleagues with years of experience. We commit ourselves to provide you an inspiring working environment that allows to discover and develop your talents and maximally use your evolving strengths and skills.

Remuneration

We pay attention to sustainability, by keeping the work pleasant and interesting in the long term. We aspire to a working place that encourages people to live in harmony with each other and with their environments. Working in a flexible way, sometimes remote, sometimes at the office or on location worldwide, will contribute to harmony in your life. Also towards remuneration. This means in practice:

• Remuneration according to your experience, skills and responsibilities.
• Full hospitalization insurance.
• Group insurance.
• Possibility of company car.
• Personal training plan both on a technical level and on self-development.

Why HAEDES?

We enable independent, talent oriented and creative consultancy & engineering for challenges at our coasts, estuaries, rivers & oceans. We provide engineering based on a nature enhanced framework & system thinking. Regenerative development and design has our preference.

With HAEDES we want to inspire and create a change where engineering skills are combined with soul, feeling & system/design thinking. We dream of becoming a company that contributes to overcome the “divide” between economics and natural sciences. We aspire to focus on nature based solutions, to improve resilience, contribute to real sustainable solutions and positively impact bio-diversity and wellbeing of communities.

Are you the right person in this place?

Please don’t wait any longer. We look forward to getting to know you.

Send your application and motivation to piet.haerens@haedes.be and touch our soul. Please refer to “Vacancy 2020/M4 – Coastal engineer/met-ocean modeller”.