Summer job 2026 - Maritime Structures

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

Are you ready to kickstart your career as a Summer Student in DNV Maritime Advisory next summer?

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.

DNV Maritime Advisory is a global, independent business unit offering expert advice, consultancy, and products to the maritime industry. We help clients unlock the full potential of their assets and operations, contextualizing technical matters and business decisions to achieve optimal results. With 300 employees across 12 countries, Maritime Advisory combines deep expertise in decarbonization, digitalization, technical integrity, and risk and safety management to support customers in navigating transformations and ensuring safe, sustainable solutions.

What to expect as a Summer Student in the Structures section in Maritime Advisory?

You will be part of a team of 20 talented engineers offering world class advisory services within structures for ships and the offshore industries.

The keyword for our section is FEM, finite element analysis, and we help our customers with the most difficult and non-standard deliveries in the industry - meaning our projects are unique and offer new learnings every time and throughout the career. You will be teamed up with our experts which are behind DNVs rule development, who are leading international committees and have years of experience on software, tools, and simulations.

Typical tasks as a Summer Student in Maritime Structures would be:

• FE analyses (GeniE, Abaqus)
• Fatigue analyses from full stochastic to prescriptive (FLS)
• Extreme response covering buckling, collision, and extreme loading (ULS and ALS)

We are leaders within the technical discipline of structural analyses in the maritime and offshore industry, covering complex assets such as cruise ships, LNG carriers, FPSOs and wind turbine installation vessels (WTIV). In the last years we have been leading the development of digital twins for structural condition monitoring and offering fully digital online services to our customers. We are one of the few workplaces where you directly can use and build on the knowledge from courses taught during your studies.

A summer job in Maritime Advisory at our head office in Høvik (outside Oslo) will consist of a combination of individual tasks and teamwork with other summer students, guided by technical experts.

Please indicate your master program specialization and/or main area of study during the application process. #summerjob

What we offer

Previous summer students have experienced summer jobs in DNV to be an excellent opportunity to get to know DNV while obtaining real work experience and valuable business relations for the future.

• Valuable and real-life experience through our projects
• Meet other young professionals through established networks and informal events
• Opportunity to build a professional network
• Well-equipped exercise center (Høvik)
• Close access to the sea and surrounding park with the possibility for different outdoor activities
• Our Høvik office is in beautiful surroundings by the sea and can offer access to sailboats, kayaks, tennis courts etc. We have more than 30 activity groups for you to join, as well as gym facilities and a kindergarten located on our premises.
• Free parking and shuttle buses to and from Skøyen, Lysaker and Sandvika.
  

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

Who are we looking for?

We are primarily seeking 3rd and 4th year students with relevant Master Program specialization in:

• Naval Architecture / Marine Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Civil Engineering / Construction

Application deadline: 14.10.2025

Any questions? Please contact Astrid Holmsen Kjesbu, on +47 918 82 972.

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