Summer Student 2027 - Maritime Advisory
Ready to kick-start your career as a Summer Student in Environmental Advisory at DNV’s Høvik headquarters?
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 kick-start your career as a summer student in Maritime Advisory?
The Environmental Advisory section in DNV Maritime supports our customers in optimizing their decisions on environmental technology, low-GHG emission fuels, and GHG and environmental policy. With more than 20 years of service deliveries dedicated to ship emissions and abatement strategies, our interdisciplinary teams have expertise ranging from detailed technical analysis to strategic advice.
Working at the intersection of technology, economics, and policy, our competence is highly sought after in both industry and the public sector. Our section is responsible for initiatives such as the Green Shipping Programme, The Nordic roadmap project for future fuels, and the annual DNV Maritime Forecast to 2050. We also work closely with the industry on assessments related to issues such as ship recycling and biofouling, and we are the Norwegian NOx Fund’s technical advisor.
Typical tasks as a summer student in Environmental Advisory would be:
- Contributing to feasibility studies of low- and zero-emission solutions, including maritime batteries, fuel cells, LNG, hydrogen, ammonia, methanol, biofuels, CCS, nuclear and other emission reduction technologies
- Contributing to improve the methods, tools and data we use to assess fuel and technology options
A summer job in Maritime Advisory at our head office in Høvik (outside Oslo) will consist of teamwork on specific tasks guided by our technical experts. Please indicate your master program specialization and/or main area of study during the application process.
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What we offer
Reasons to work with us
Previous summer students have found their internship at DNV to be an excellent opportunity to gain practical experience, build professional networks and learn more about our business.
- 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.
- 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 primarily looking for students in the third or fourth year of a relevant degree programme. Relevant fields of study include:
- Naval Architecture
- Computer Science / Information Science
- Artificial Intelligence
- Cybernetics / Robotics
- Physics and Mathematics
- Industrial Economics
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 you choose to apply for more than one role in DNV, please state your preference in the application letter.
Application deadline: 16.10.2026. We will evaluate your application after the deadline.
Any questions? Please contact Terje Sverud, Head of Section, on + 47 95124543.
We are looking forward to reviewing your application!
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.