Your Work Context
As a Tender Engineer, you’ll strengthen our Dredging tender team and help shape strong, well‑founded proposals for projects around the world. You don’t need any dredging experience — we provide full in‑house training in our techniques, processes and execution methods. What matters most is your analytical mindset, eagerness to learn and motivation to dive into complex dossiers.
Jan De Nul Group is synonymous with dredging and reclamation projects from A to Z, worldwide and at the highest level! We owe this position as a world player to our technical innovative know-how and the most modern dredging fleet in the world. Since standing still is going backwards, we continue to invest in the future, our fleet and our personnel.
Your Role
As a Tender Engineer, you are involved at the very start of each project trajectory. You bring together technical insights, numbers and ideas to create a clear and achievable plan, collaborating closely with colleagues across multiple disciplines. You structure information, keep the overview and translate it into convincing proposals.
Your role in a nutshell:
Analyse technical, legal and commercial documents and distinguish key points from details
Translate designs into clear, structured and persuasive texts for tenders and internal decision‑making
Bring together colleagues from engineering, finance, legal, QHSSE and other teams to define the right approach
Monitor costs, coordinate with subcontractors and suppliers and safeguard financial feasibility
Work with the Area and Tender Manager on a technical and commercial action plan that stands out
Summarise new tenders concisely and support management in making quick decisions
Keep the subcontractor quotation database accurate and up to date
You’ll join a close‑knit team where knowledge sharing is second nature. You grow every day, take on increasing responsibility and contribute to projects with global impact.
What do you need to have?
A master’s degree in engineering
Motivation to learn about dredging techniques and complex projects (experience not required)
Strong analytical skills and excellent writing abilities
Planning and organisational talent
Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
Flexibility and perseverance when deadlines tighten
Willingness to travel occasionally
Strong command of Dutch and English
Working at Jan De Nul
Working at Jan De Nul means helping to find solutions to some of the biggest challenges of our time: from energy transition to rising sea levels to smart mobility. It means learning and working together every day, with the aim of ensuring the global quality of life for generations to come.
What we offer
Through the JDN Academy, we provide you with a continuous training programme.
Our FIT programme support your well-being, with a focus on exercise, nutrition and various team activities.
A permanent contract with 42 paid holidays (20 statutory, 12 ADV and 10 public holidays).
A healthy work-life balance (flexible working hours and occasional work from home).
A competitive salary with 13th month and double holiday pay, including:
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Meal vouchers and eco vouchers
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Possibility to participate in the Flex Reward programme, including bicycle and car leasing with fuel card (in Belgium).
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Reimbursement for public transport and bicycle allowance
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Group and hospitalisation insurance
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Option for an iPhone with a mobile and data subscription (with employee contribution).
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Various staff discounts
The world is what you make it
Jan De Nul is shaping water and land worldwide. We drive the transition to renewable energy with offshore energy infrastructure. We focus on nature-inclusive dredging solutions to build ports and protect our coastline. We develop innovative construction projects for smart mobility and sustainable buildings. And we redevelop our planet by giving polluted sites a new purpose. At Jan De Nul, the world is what you make it. Jan De Nul Group promotes diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We are an equal opportunities and anti-discrimination employer.
Tender and Procurement
Careers in dredging
Education
Master's degree
