Dominik Hochhäusler

Developing and implementing sustainable solutions as a mechanical engineer

The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands

About

• Project Engineer at TWD designing offshore structures • leads the RiverWaveProject, a startup implementing sustainable solutions in rivers for generating surfable waves with an optional combination of electricity production • M. Sc. in Mechanical Engineering at Technical University of Munich, Germany • Masterthesis about experimental investigating active flow control on vertical axis wind turbines at Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Experience

  • TWD (Rotterdam, Südholland, Niederlande · On-site)
    • Senior Ingenieur
      Mar 2026 - Present · 5 mos

    • Project Engineer
      May 2024 - Mar 2026 · 1 yr 11 mos

      • Project Management: Project execution through help in budgeting, planning, team management of 2-10 people, safeguarding the technical quality and timely delivery of project deliverables. Translating the client’s requests into functional designs or methods. • Structural Engineering: Load case determination, strength and stability analysis (RFEM and ANSYS) and prototyping. • Heavy Lift Engineering: Design, engineering and review of lift arrangements, design and engineering of lifting tools, equipment selection consultancy. • Method engineering: Developing most suitable operational sequence and equipment for project boundary conditions. • Guidance: Guiding less experiences engineers and project engineers, doing quality checks of their work, supervising master thesis, sharing lessons learned and developing guidelines for specific topics.

    • Mechanical Engineer
      Jan 2023 - May 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos

      • Project Management • Structural Engineering & Design • Naval Architecture: Vessel modifications, equipment integration, stability booklet renewal, survey and classification support, hydrodynamics of floating structures. • Marine Engineering: Motion analysis, workability analysis, stability analysis and ballasting plans, and dynamic analysis (Orcawave, Orcaflex).

  • CEO / Project Manager and Engineer at RiverWaveProject
    Sep 2017 - Present · 8 yrs 11 mos

    What I do: • Writing feasibility studies • Computational fluid dynamics • Project management • Website building and hosting What we offer: • Support during planing, implementing and maintaining riverwaves for surfing and kayaking • IP protected solution • Feasibility studies • Computational fluid dynamics • In development: Combining the river wave technology with hydraulic turbine Several running projects in Europe

  • Mechanical Project Engineer at SINN Power | Wave Energy
    Jun 2021 - Jun 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

    • Technical development and product design (Solidworks) • Homologation (CE certification of the electronics: risk analysis, research of standards, test planning and execution, writing of the manual, quality assurance) • Recruiting of employees • Supervision and management of a team of working students • Creation of image films, including presentation of how the technologies work in 3D (animation with Blender, editing with Adobe Premiere Pro, effects with Adobe After Effects) • Hydrodynamic simulations of a mooring system and analysis of the forces in the structure (Orcaflex) • Conduct job interviews • Supervising students • Hydrodynamic simulations

  • Intern at SINN Power | Wave Energy
    Oct 2020 - Jan 2021 · 4 mos

    • Development of mooring systems • Working with a wave energy model implemented with MATLAB Simulink • Simulation of floating structures with OrcaFlex • Writing offers and requests • Computer Aided Design • Improvement of a modular electrical housing • Development of a mounting technology/strategy of an offshore platform in water

  • Testingenieur at in-tech GmbH
    Apr 2016 - Jul 2016 · 4 mos

    Vehicle testing for BMW: Remote controlled parking technology • Flashing and coding of control units • Reading and analysing the fault memory • Reading out data from test vehicles • Conceptual design and construction of a mobile measurement technology solution • Test execution and documentation for the qualitative activation of customer functions • Execution and documentation of safety function safety tests • Post-processing of recorded camera data for subsequent processing