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About us

We are the independent expert in assurance and risk management. Driven by our purpose, to safeguard life, property and the environment, we empower our customers and their stakeholders with facts and reliable insights so that critical decisions can be made with confidence.

As a trusted voice for many of the world’s most successful organizations, we use our knowledge to advance safety and performance, set industry benchmarks and inspire and invent solutions to tackle global transformations.

About Maritime

We help enhance the safety, efficiency and sustainability of our customers in the global shipping industry, covering all vessel types and mobile offshore units. As a partner to industry, we offer services in testing, certification, training and technical advisory through the energy value chain. That means we’re continually investing heavily into R&D for new services and solutions while proactively assessing what the industry needs today and tomorrow.

Local Unit & Position Description

Area Germany is part of the Maritime Region West Europe. The Area offers Maritime classification services through ~120 committed employees in eight German locations, with its headquarters in Hamburg. Services delivered are Newbuilding (NB) as well as Classification and Verification of Material and Components (CMC/VMC), while Fleet in Service (FiS) is organized in a separate service line across the Region.

We are looking for a CMC/VMC Surveyor to join our team in the Ruhr area (office Essen), reporting to the local Team Lead.

About the role

DNV provides several services for Product Certification and Verification in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

The team West Germany with office in Essen consists of 15 employees and is responsible for all customers in West Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia, parts of Rhineland-Palatinate, parts of Lower Saxony). We visit our customers and witness testing and inspection of materials and products, intended for installation on ships and offshore installations, but also for other industrial applications.

For our team West Germany we are looking for a Surveyor who should be located in the Ruhr area and will be working mostly at the customer site as well as in the home office with regular meetings in the Essen office. After successful on-the-job training and qualification, if applicable, the job consists of:

Main responsibilities:

Certification and verification of materials and components for marine and offshore applications underclass and non-class related systems and processes
Assessment and auditing of production capabilities at manufacturers according to different maritime schemes
Management of our clients together with other relevant parts of our organization and technical responsibility for individual selected customers as well as sales supporting activities together with the DNV line management
Project-orientated work and cooperation in interdisciplinary verification projects
Marketing work for identifying additional VMC opportunities

About you

Position qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Marine or Naval Engineering or other relevant discipline
Valid qualification and good knowledge as CMC/VMC Surveyor desirable
Valid qualification as Welding Engineer desirable
Experience within the Maritime industry
Professional experience at a manufacturer as well as previous experience in dealing with classification in this context desirable
Valid driver's license and acceptable driving record meeting company requirements
Depending on technical profile, willingness to support your competence development to obtain the necessary qualification elements of DNV's Maritime Training and Authorization Scheme (MTAS)

Personal qualities:

Ability to work flexibly, result-oriented and self-organized
Customer-oriented approach
Enjoy working in the field as a surveyor together with a good team and operational planning
Demonstrated initiative and eagerness to work and learn
Team player with a positive attitude
Early adopter of new ways of working and digitalization
Inspired by working autonomously and taking ownership
Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, in English and German

What we offer

Highly engaged team in an environment where trust, teamwork and innovation are core values
Innovative environment where you can influence the future whilst maintaining our core strengths
Dedicated and competent colleagues
Demanding customers
Chance to try out new things and contribute to our strategy
Work on global challenges
Location: Ruhr area, Office location Essen

Interested? How to apply

Please upload your CV and cover letter in our application tracking system. All documents should be in English. Applicants without this information will not be considered.

DNV is an Equal Opportunity Employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to gender, religion, race, national or ethnic origin, cultural background, social group, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age or political opinion. Diversity is fundamental to our culture and we invite you to be part of this diversity.