Summer job 2026 - Maritime - Technical Support
Are you ready to kickstart your career as a Summer Student in Maritime next summer?
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
Are you ready to kickstart your career as a Summer Student in Maritime 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.
If your ambition is to make a real difference and seek opportunities beyond business, this could be the perfect start of your career.
Technical Support in Ship Classification is a part of DNV Maritime and provides global support and governance to all DNV’s regions in the daily operation of vessels.
Technical Support, Norway consist of 7 units, 5 technical units located in Høvik, and 2 Technical Helpdesk units located in Houston and Singapore. Together with our 3 sister units in Hamburg and 1 in Piraeus these units cover all technical disciplines relevant for vessels in operation and provide 24/7 service on DATE® and Remote survey.
Our Managers in Technical Support are now looking for students for our summer jobs for the summer of 2026. They will select summer students based on their business needs aligned with your education, experience and background.
Please indicate your master program specialization and/or main area of study during the application process.
We are looking for students with relevant knowledge and competence. We trust our summer students to help us keep our business up and running during the summer and make our projects proceed according to plan. We are primarily looking for 3rd and 4th year students with relevant Master Program specialization from:
- Naval Architect
- Marine Technology
- Machinery
- Mechanical Engineering
- Materials Technology
- Welding Technology or NDT
- Data Science / Date Analytics / automation /robotics
- Industrial Economics and Technology Management/ Information systems / Data engineering #summerjob
What we offer
- 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 possibility for different outdoor activities
- Our Høvik office is located 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. It is also worth noting that we offer 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
We are looking for candidates with as many as possible of the following qualities:
- Quick learner and data smart
- Open-minded and curious
- Self-driven and willing to share
- Flexible and service-minded
- Structured and systematic
- Analytical
- Able to work both individually and in teams
- Fluent in English, both verbal and written
We believe you have a passion for science and technology and can identify yourself with our purpose, vision, values, and standards. It is important to us that you find the work meaningful and that you will enjoy being a part of our organization and work environment.
Application process:
Please upload your application letter, CV and grade certificate in our application tracking system. All documents should be in English, if possible. Students without this information will not be considered.
Application deadline: 14th October 2025
For more information about these positions, please contact: Head of Department Stener Stenersen, tel.: +47 414 64 995
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DNV is a global quality assurance and risk management company. Driven by our purpose of safeguarding life, property and the environment, we enable our customers to advance the safety and sustainability of their business.
We provide classification, technical assurance, software and independent expert advisory services to the maritime, oil & gas, power and renewables industries. We also provide certification, supply chain and data management services to customers across a wide range of industries.
Combining technical, digital and operational expertise, risk methodology and in-depth industry knowledge, we empower our customers’ decisions and actions with trust and confidence. We continuously invest in research and collaborative innovation to provide customers and society with operational and technological foresight.
With origins stretching back to 1864 and operations in more than 100 countries, our experts are dedicated to helping customers make the world safer, smarter and greener.