Graduate 2025

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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

Do you want to launch your career journey in Maritime Ship Classification? We are looking for Graduates to join our team in 2025!

With 15.000 employees operating in over 100 countries, DNV is a leading expert in risk management and assurance. 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.

Ship Classification covers Classification and Statutory services and provides governance, support, and development of our global work processes Newbuilding, Certification of Machinery and Components, and Fleet in Service, in addition to carrying out approval within these processes. Ship Classification is the backbone of the Maritime Business consisting of 6 units: Approval, Technical Support, Class Development, Quality, HSE and Class Services, and Regulatory Affairs.

Technical Support in Ship Classification provides global support and governance to all DNV’s regions in their daily operation and survey of vessels. We cover all technical disciplines which are relevant for vessels in operation and their needs. Our units are strategically located in Asia, Europe, and America allowing us to provide 24/7 service to our customers via remote surveys and DATE® service.

We are primarily looking for a graduate who wants to join the Maritime Business and we are seeking a skillful, curious, and agile graduate for our Register and Data Management section located in Høvik.

We will select the incoming graduate based on business needs aligned with your education, experience, and background. Please indicate your master program specialization and/or main area(s) of study during the application process.

We trust you as a relevant candidate are triggered by our purpose of safeguarding life, property, and the environment, which is key in our projects.

We are primarily hiring a candidate with relevant university degree in a topic related to the work of DNV Maritime. Relevant specialization and/or main area(s) of study include:

• Mechanical Engineering
• Marine Engineering
• Naval Architecture
• Ship Technology
• Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
• Information systems
• Management of information systems and innovation
• Data science
• Data analytics
• IT

While we are generally interested in recruiting candidates with who have studied a technical topic, we are also interested in hiring candidates with different skills that could accelerate our digital transformation.

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What we offer

What to expect as a Graduate in Ship Classification

We want you to contribute to impactful projects right away, so we will work together to align our strategy and goals with your individual skills and interests. We want your role to complement our existing team working on our digital transformation, i.e. we want you to bring something unique that will grow the capabilities of the team. You will:

• join a group of employees with a diverse skillset assisting DNV experts in our digital transformation
• be a team member in small to medium sized cross discipline projects using digital skills to improve efficiency and effectiveness of tasks and work processes
• be a team leader for smaller projects working together with 2-3 colleagues. Typically, in areas where you are a subject matter expert
• handle technical support cases related to technical topics or work processes and apply learning from this to make proposals for improvements
• work within existing teams and organizational structures to deliver business outcomes and change
• work across organizational structures, linking with experts from other disciplines (e.g., IT, software development, engineering, data science), to deliver business outcomes and change
• contribute to the development of DNV's next 5-year strategy period (2026-2030) by reflecting on your experience and identifying focus areas that will enable our digital transformation to become even more successful

Training and support will be given to help you settle in your new role.

Who are we looking for?

We are interested in hearing from candidates who finalize their degree in spring 2025.

The successful candidate is likely to have one or more of the following skills and a willingness to grow further skills in these areas:

• Knowledge of or qualifications in some of the following:
  • engineering topics related to ships
  • robotic process control
  • large language models
  • machine learning
  • artificial Intelligence
  • data management and data governance
  • information architecture and databases
  • digital customer success
• Knowledge or practical experience with PowerBI
• Knowledge of shipping industry and ship technology
• Knowledge of ship operations / seagoing experience on ships
• Understanding of technical drawings and documentation about ships

This knowledge could have been gained as part of your university studies or from previous work experience or summer jobs.

As a person you would typically fit into one or more of the following descriptions:

• Excellent communication skills
• Eagerness to learn new solutions and technologies
• Willingness to cooperate with other departments and regions
• Open-minded and curious
• Self-driven and willing to share
• Fluent in English, both verbal and written

Interested? How to apply

To be considered for this role, please register your CV, application letter, and grade transcripts in our application tracking system (Oracle) electronically. All documents should be in English, if possible. If you choose to apply for more than one role in DNV, please state your preference in the application letter.

Note: It is important that you upload your diplomas and transcripts with your application:

1. Upload your CV in our portal
2. Scan diplomas and transcripts together with your cover letter in one document and upload this together

Application deadline: 06.10.2024. We will evaluate your application after the deadline.

Any questions? Please contact Head of Section Thomas Grafton on phone +47 476 22 073, by SMS, or email to thomas.grafton@dnv.com.

We are ready to receive your application – so apply now!

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.