Plan Approval Expert for Hull

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 the 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.

DNV Maritime Japan provides Classification services such as Plan Approval, Newbuilding and Fleet in Service surveys, as well as Certification of Materials and Components.

Approval Centre Japan, located in Kobe City, is seeking a Hull Plan Approval expert to be engaged primarily with the Japanese shipbuilding industry:

Plan Approval services including FEM analysis of structural design:

• Pre-contract services, in-process approval and technical support to ship designers
• Technical support to our business development team as well as our site offices at shipbuilders.

The candidate will also be responsible for enhancing and strengthening the DNV Maritime position in Japanese shipbuilding industries.

It should be noted that there will also be opportunities for the candidate to experience and gain in-depth knowledge of structural strength and design through DNV’s global network of hull structure experts and also through actual newbuilding projects at shipbuilders.

The successful candidate will be provided with internal training and qualification schemes.

Benefits include:

• Flexible work arrangements for better work-life balance
• Generous paid leaves (Annual leaves, Sick leaves)
• Medical benefits (Standard medical check-up, Maternity Health Care)
• Pension and Insurance Policies (Group Life Insurance, Health Insurance, Welfare insurance, Unemployment insurance, Accident Insurance)
• Training and Development Assistance (Training Sponsorship, On-The-Job Training, Training Programme)
• Additional Benefits (Long Service Awards, Mobile Phone Reimbursement, Car Allowance, Commuting Allowance, Professional Membership Fees, Congratulation and Condolence allowance)

*Benefits may vary based on position, tenure/contract/grade level*

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.

Approval Centre Japan is ideally looking for a person with a Bachelor's degree in naval architecture, and actual experiences of hull plan approval in other classification societies, or structural design in design department at shipbuilders.

Personal Qualification-

The candidate is:

• A team player, self-driven and thrive for opportunities to put your skills and personality to use creating customer value
• Understanding the importance of collaboration
• Supportive in initiating and developing leads to cope with challenges
• Confident in his/her own competence, at the same time aware of his/her limitations
• Structured, flexible and result oriented
• Having good communication skills, verbally and written in both English and Japanese
• Sociable, create a good atmosphere and recognize that feedback is the fuel of high performing teams
• Respecting different cultures