Newbuilding Electrical Surveyor

**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.
**About the role**:
**Area Benelux & France** is part of the Maritime Region West Europe, consisting of a team of approximately 73 committed employees taking care of various technical services. These services are related to the following disciplines:
CMC - Certification of Materials and Components for vessels and offshore installations.

NB - New Building classification for vessels and offshore installations.

The Area is collaborating closely with the Regional FiS - Fleet in Service organization.

There are five office locations in the Area: Antwerp, Le Havre, Marseille, Saint-Nazaire and Rotterdam. Besides this, several people are working from a home office, to cover the geographical needs of our clients.

We aim to be the front-runner in innovation, digitalization and customer-centricity. For various disciplines, new regimes are continuously introduced. Recent examples are electronic certificates, remote inspections, 3D printing, sensor-based maintenance, alternative fuels, and now heading towards the ships of the future shipping. Customer needs and footprint reduction are key elements in this.

We are looking for an **Electrical Surveyor** to join our NB team in France based in the Saint Nazaire Area. Main activities take place at Chantiers de l’Atlantique and other locations in the West coast of France.

**Main responsibilities**:

- Be part of DNV team(s) surveying our new building vessel project(s) in the country, including activities through all project phases and disciplines, from planning to close-out
- Application and interpretation of International and Classification Rules and regulations related to the maritime industry.
- Perform work which involves conventional engineering practices but may include complex problems, such as the ability to identify conflicting integration designs in Electrical and automation systems for Maritime.
- Be responsible for, but not limited to, the electrical, automation and navigation disciplines during the new building of the cruise vessel from a Classification point of view.
- Survey of material and components for the maritime industry in manufacturer’s facilities.
- Approval of drawings and documentation related but not limited to, Electrical and automation discipline.
- Work in close cooperation with and under the supervision of DNV Project Manager at the Yard.
- Effectively interact and consult clients for Rules and design aspects.
- Manage our clients together with other relevant parts of our organization.

**What we offer**:

- Work with a highly engaged team in an environment where trust, teamwork, and innovation are core values.
- An interesting technical function where you ensure compliance of complex systems on advanced ships
- The opportunity to grow and develop in a desired expertise role
- A job that continuously evolves due to technological developments
- **Work Location**: Saint-Nazaire
- **Conditions of Employment** : Local terms and conditions. Contrat cadre Syntec. A company car is provided. Travel within the region & France is required.

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.
**About you**:

- MSc degree in electrical engineering/mechatronics. Alternatively, a degree or equivalent from the maritime institution in combination with proven seagoing experience as an Electrotechnical officer will be considered
- Minimum 5 years’ work experience as an electrical engineer in a maritime or related sector. Experience as an electrical surveyor or sailing experience as an Electrical officer in Electric Propulsion vessels would be considered an advantage.
- Working knowledge of Instrumentation and Control engineering for the maritime industr