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CMC/VMC Surveyor Ruhr area, Office Essen
- Location:
- Essen, Germany
- Business:
- Maritime
- Position type:
- Full Time
Overview
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
About the role
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 our 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 acc. to different maritime schemes
- Managing 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, cooperation in interdisciplinary verification projects
- Marketing work for identifying additional VMC opportunities
What we offer
We offer:
- The right candidate will enjoy working with a highly engaged team in an environment where trust, teamwork, and innovation are core values.
Join us, and you will:
- Be part of an innovative environment where you can influence the future whilst maintaining our core strengths
- Work with dedicated and competent colleagues
- Meet demanding customers
- Be given the chance to try out new things and contribute to our strategy
- Live locally yet work on challenges globally
- Local conditions apply
- Location: Ruhr area, Office location Essen
About you
Position Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical/Electrical/Marine/ Naval Engineering (or other relevant disciplines)
- 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, is desirable
- Valid driver’s license required and acceptable driving record meeting company requirements
- Depending on technical profile, we will be willing 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.
- Demonstrate initiative and eagerness to work and learn
- Team player with a positive attitude
- An 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
Projects and case studies
Our work helps pioneering companies and covers latest trends, regulations, initiatives to develop solutions to the most complex challenges the maritime industry is facing.
Maritime Digital Twin
The cloud-based digital twin is a virtual image of customers’ assets, maintained through the lifecycle and easily accessible at any time.
Maritime Cyber Security
Cyber security is an important topic for the maritime industries due to rapid digital change that come with new threats and regulatory requirements.
Benefits
Meet us
We help enhance the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of our customers in the global shipping industry, covering all vessel types and mobile offshore units.
We invest heavily in research and development to find solutions, together with the industry, that address strategic or regulatory challenges.
As trainees you get to try different roles in different locations around the world.
Being a trainee you get to see the company from different sides and we've really enjoyed being technical trainees at DNV.
We help our clients manage and understand the emerging risks from new fuels and autonomy.
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At DNV, our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is not only an ethical choice, but also a business decision.
Diversity, fairness, and a sense of belonging are a source of strength for our people, our business, and our customers, and help us to deliver on our purpose, vision, and values.
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Working here
Since 1864 we’ve been dedicated to safeguarding life, property and the environment. Today we remain at the forefront of new technologies and techniques to help our customers transform for a more sustainable future.
At DNV you can expect to deliver career and industry defining work. You’ll be given the time to build your network, the resources to support your development, and the freedom to satisfy your curiosity and desire to learn.
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