Summary
Richard Schop is a seasoned project engineer with over a decade leading multidisciplinary teams at Royal IHC, currently overseeing the engineering and delivery of Standard Hoppers. He combines hands-on mechanical construction expertise with a coaching leadership style, consistently delivering projects on schedule and to high quality standards. His background spans ship construction, outfitting, and engineering management across Damen Shipyards and IHC Merwede, giving him deep domain knowledge of marine engineering workflows. Richard is analytical and solution-oriented, known for open collaboration and practical problem solving under complex constraints. Based in the Randstad, he leverages an Ing. Mechanical degree to bridge design detail and project execution. An understated strength is his long-term focus on standardization, improving repeatability and efficiency in hopper design and delivery.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Ing, Mechanical, Ing, Mechanical at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences