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Gerben Sikkema is an experienced engineering professional currently serving as Manager Group Technology (New Energy) at Damen since January 2025. Prior roles include Head of Engineering Department and Project Manager for CAD/PDM Implementation at Damen Yachting, as well as Manager Engineering CRO/OTC at Damen. Gerben's career began at Tetra Pak as a Mechanical Engineer, followed by positions at Cordis and Betelgeuze, where expertise was developed in engineering and project management across various industries including naval architecture and food production. Gerben holds a B. Eng in Mechanical Engineering from NHL Hogeschool and a diploma in Mechanical Engineering from MTS Leeuwarden.
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Oceans, seas, lakes and rivers offer growing possibilities in the areas of trade, food, energy and recreation. To ensure global prosperity for next generations and keep the earth habitable with an ever-increasing population, it is essential to utilise and protect these possibilities as efficiently and responsibly as possible. Damen provides unprecedented maritime solutions for this, through design, shipbuilding, ship repair and related services. We offer versatile platforms that enable our customers to be successful and that raise the standard in terms of safety, reliability, efficiency and sustainability. We want to become the most sustainable shipbuilders in the world. In the previous century, we revolutionized shipbuilding. Thanks to standardisation, we were able to supply our customers with better ships, faster. More than 90 years and 6,500 ships later, the importance of standardisation is only increasing in the light of zero-emissions and digitalisation. We do not build our ships alone, but together with an extensive network from the international maritime cluster. We firmly believe in the power of sharing. It means that we also use our craftsmanship to build platforms on production facilities that are not ours. In this way, through knowledge transfer, we not only contribute to better, safer and more eco-friendly ships, but also to sustainable local development and prosperity. We are a family owned business and stand for fellowship, craftsmanship, entrepreneurship and stewardship. Our playing field is the world. Our horizon is the long term. We firmly believe in our team, but also in the strength of the individual. Each colleague is an entrepreneur, focused on ensuring truly satisfied clients and making our contribution to a better world. In every aspect of our business the next generation is our starting point.