Senior Material & Components Surveyor

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

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.

VMC- Verification of Materials and Components according to various standards.

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 future of shipping. Customer needs and footprint reduction are key elements in this.

In order to support the CMC/VMC activities in France (Le Havre or Strasbourg area), we are looking for senior surveyor to join our CMC team in France and Belgium.

Main responsibilities:

• Certification and verification of materials and components under class and non-class related systems and processes.
• Manage a group of customers and interact with colleagues from all over the world to follow up on their needs.
• Be the advisor of our customers to guide them in the regulatory landscape of maritime industry and support their development.
• Conduct all activities in a safe manner with due regard to own safety and safety of others.

What we offer

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 will be responsible for the certification of a variety of technical products.
• The opportunity to grow and develop in a desired expertise role.
• A job that continuously evolves due to technological developments.
• A flexible but also demanding job with a high responsibility, where you meet interesting clients and products.
• A job where you can grow and develop into other functions.

About you

Position Qualifications:

• Master/bachelor's degree in mechanical/electrical/marine engineering (or other relevant disciplines).
• Minimum 8 -10 years of experience in the Maritime and/or Offshore Industry.
• Experience in certification of materials and components and ships in service beneficial.
• Skills for auditing through experience as internal or external auditor (ISO 9001, MED).
• Competence and knowledge in electrical and control & monitoring will be beneficial.
• Excellent written and spoken business-standard English is essential.
• Good command of French desirable.
• Valid driver license required.
• Willingness to frequently travel within the country is crucial.
• Depending on technical profile, we will be willing to support your competence development to obtain the necessary Qualifications.

Personal qualities:

• Ability to work flexibly, independently, result-oriented, and self-organized.
• Customer-oriented approach.
• Demonstrate an initiative / eagerness to work and learn.
• Team player with a positive attitude.
• Prepared for active support of our processes on the way of transformation in a new digital world.
• Inspired by working autonomously and by taking ownership.
• Good communication skills, both written and oral, in English and in French.