Senior Consultant - Lifecycle Management

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

Senior Consultants at Lifecycle Management
Maritime Advisory Høvik

We are looking for candidates to support in maritime transactions and transformations

Maritime Advisory provides technical support to customers and stakeholders within the Maritime and Offshore industry globally in their efforts to make the right decisions to achieve profitable and sustainable results. Life Cycle Management (LCM), a part of Safety Advisory within Maritime Advisory, supports maritime/offshore customers & stakeholders in a technical & commercial advisory role. In such a role, LCM enables the customers/stakeholders to manage their risks in terms of building and operating their assets efficiently, safely and in compliance with rules and regulations. The role is further executed through services such as technical due diligence, regulatory gap assessments, technology qualification, life extension & new build advisory services. Typical focus areas include offshore wind, gas carriers, tankers, cargo and passenger vessels, floating offshore assets as well as alternative fuels and new technologies enabling digital and decarbonization ambitions of our customers.

Our team regularly acts as an independent consultant to lenders, investors, asset owners , asset operators & other stakeholders providing technical expertise in a variety of roles such as risk management, transaction support, compliance management as well as strategies for managing transformations related to decarbonization and digitization.

Due to a high workload in our Lifecycle Management services, we are seeking to hire two enthusiastic and motivated Senior Consultants with relevant experience. Typical career paths in Lifecycle Management include taking a leading role in one or more strategic areas including but not limited to:

• Technical due diligence / transaction support
• Technology qualification
• Useful economic life and retirement analysis of fleets and vessels
• Newbuilding and retrofit investment decision support
• Alternative fuels and decarb advisory from a lifecycle perspective

Responsibilities:

• Project management and delivery of customer projects according to agreed scope and timeline
• Securing external work by identifying opportunities, defining solutions for customers and bidding for contracts.
• Networking with senior professionals outside and inside DNV through a good understanding of professional and business issues of maritime customers.
• Apply knowledge and analytical skills to solve complex technical challenges and work on several projects in parallel. Some travel can be expected.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a related field is required. Master's degree is preferred. Naval Architecture, Marine Engineering, Mechanical Engineering are examples of relevant degrees, but non-technical degrees may also be relevant.
• Minimum 5 years of previous related / relevant experience from the industry. Maritime experience is a plus, but not an absolute requirement.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills.

Key skills and attributes we are looking for:

• Communicates and influences, using appropriate channels (face-to-face, verbal and written), in a clear, open, respectful and honest manner, and seeks understanding of other views
• Actively contributes to the success of the team and collaborates to create results
• Builds good personal and professional relationships

Although previous experience is an important consideration, we are primarily looking for candidates with an open mindset to learn and grow with us in a maritime industry in which change is the new normal.

What we offer

We offer:

• Interesting and challenging projects – regional and international
• Possibility for international assignment
• Work with dedicated and competent colleagues with a high experience and specialization level in an international environment
• Interaction with customers with complex and exciting operational and technical challenges in shipping and offshore
• Be part of a global company with 15 000 employees, world leading professional networks and diverse internal job opportunities
• The possibility to grow and develop your competencies and ambitions within DNV

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.