Venice Marine Surveyor

Posting Date: 15 Apr 2024- City: Venezia- Location: Venezia, IT, 30175- Contract Type: Permanent- Division: Marine South-West Europe Region- Level of experience: IntermediateRINA is currently recruiting for a **Venice Marine Surveyor** to join its office in Venezia within the Marine South-West Europe Region Division.

**Mission**:
A surveyor in a classification society plays a crucial role in ensuring the safety, compliance, and quality of ships and marine structures. The main responsibilities are aimed at verifying that vessels meet international and classification society standards.

**Key Accountabilities**:

- **Technical Expertise**:

- Provide expert technical advice to clients, shipowners, and manufacturers on matters related to classification, design, construction, and maintenance.
- **Regulatory Compliance**:

- Ensure strict adherence to classification society rules, international regulations, and statutory requirements during surveys and inspections.
- **Problem-Solving**:

- Act as a troubleshooter, addressing technical issues and challenges that may arise during surveys or in the course of client interactions.
- Provide practical and effective solutions to clients while maintaining compliance with classification standards.
- **Quality Assurance**:

- Implement quality assurance measures in survey processes to uphold the highest standards of accuracy and reliability in inspection reports.
- Participate in internal quality audits and contribute to the continuous improvement of surveying procedures.
- **Client Education**:

- Educate clients on classification society processes, rules, and the importance of compliance for safety and operational efficiency.
- **Documentation and Reporting**:

- Develop and maintain standardized templates for inspection reports, ensuring consistency and clarity in reporting.
- Integrate digital tools for efficient documentation management and reporting.
- **Collaboration and Teamwork**:

- Collaborate with colleagues, both within the classification society and externally, to share knowledge, experiences, and best practices.
- Actively participate in team meetings and contribute to a collaborative work environment.
- **Continuous Professional Development**:

- Engage in ongoing professional development to stay current with evolving industry standards, technologies, and best practices.
- Pursue relevant certifications or qualifications to enhance expertise.
- **Ethical Conduct**:

- Uphold the highest ethical standards in all professional interactions, ensuring integrity, transparency, and fairness in survey processes.

**Education**:

- Master’s Degree in Naval Engineering

**Qualifications**:

- Minimum 3 years experience working as a Junior Surveyor or minimum 5 years experience in the engineering or survey fields within the marine industry or other applicable industry to their specialization.
- Proficiency in the English language commensurate with the scope of classification, statutory certification, related services and, before assignment, with their future work.
- Ability to develop a working knowledge of RINA Rules, Guides, statutory regulations, and related instructions, as well as the RINA Employee Safety Policy.
- Ability to understand engineering plans and have a basic knowledge of shipbuilding practices and ship operations.
- Ability to perform new building surveys:

- to assess the suitability of certified materials and products supplied for the new building,
- to assess that hull, machinery and equipment have been built in compliance with rules and regulations by means of compulsory inspections, tests and trials,
- to identify the deficiencies to be rectified (if any) and assess whether immediate repair is necessary or a recommendation may be issued with an appropriate due date,
- to issue Certificates, Reports, Records and Status in compliance with rules and regulations.
- Ability to perform ship in service surveys:

- to assess that hull, machinery and equipment have been maintained in compliance with rules and regulations by means of compulsory overall inspections, tests and trials,
- to identify the deficiencies to be rectified (if any) and assess whether immediate repair is necessary or a recommendation may be issued with an appropriate due date,
- to follow-up as required by rules and regulations any repair work or due to previous outstanding recommendations,
- to assess whether the deficiencies identified (if any) may be linked with potential failure of the Ship Management System,
- to endorse Certificates, issue Reports and Status in compliance with rules and regulations.
- Knowledge of ships' engineering systems and machinery.
- Knowledge of computer programs or software packages related to job responsibilities.
- Knowledge of related technical interfaces required for group project work.

**Competencies**:

- MAKE EFFECTIVE DECISIONS - Structure activities according to priorities, actions, resources and constraint
- ADDRESS THE WAY - Have a big