Summer students 2025

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

If your ambition is to make a real difference and seek opportunities beyond business, this could be the perfect start of your career. #earlycareers

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, Høvik consist of 7 units, 4 technical units located in Høvik and 2 Technical Helpdesk units located in Houston, and Singapore. Together with 3 sister units in Hamburg and one 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 2025. 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

What we offer

Reasons to work with us:

Attractive rewards. We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including 6 weeks annual vacation, subsidised canteen, competitive pension, insurance, and parental leave agreement, in addition to a global profit share scheme.

Work/life balance. We offer flexible working hours and workplace, with focus on work/life balance for our employees.

Supportive and caring culture. Our international culture embodies diverse colleagues who value teamwork and inclusion across business areas and borders. We offer opportunities for our employees to connect through social and professional networks. Our largest community CONNECT, throws after-works and informal meetings all year long for you to join.

Career and development. DNV offers extensive possibilities to grow and develop your competencies and career ambitions. We have a strong company culture with emphasis on growth mindset, knowledge sharing, and professional and personal development.

By joining DNV you become part of a world-leading company whose purpose is to safeguard life, property, and the environment. Our values “we care, we share, we dare” characterize how we work and behave towards each other and our customers.

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

Personal qualities:
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.

We offer valuable, real-life experience through our projects. You will also meet other young professionals through established networks and informal events.

Interested? How to apply:

Please upload your application letter, CV and grade certificate in our application tracking system (Oracle). All documents should be in English, if possible. Students without this information will not be considered.

Welcome to DNV!

Application deadline: 13th of October 2024

For more information about these positions, please contact: Head of Section Silje Brathagen With, tel.: +47 980 45 989 or
Head of Section Tatiana Tzeferakou, tel.: +47 970 15 558