South Africa Marine Senior Surveyor at RINA

Job Description
The Senior Surveyor serves as a seasoned and highly knowledgeable professional within the organization, applying expertise in maritime Rules, Regulations, and industry principles. The Senior Surveyor plays a pivotal role in ensuring the accuracy, quality, and continuous improvement of surveying processes.

Key Accountabilities
Professional Specialist:

• Acts as a professional specialist, applying in-depth knowledge of Rules, Regulations, and industry concepts.
• Keeps abreast of new developments and recommends changes to surveying processes and safety programs.

Inspection and Reporting:

• Conducts routine surveys on classed ships, platforms, or marine structures to ensure compliance with classification and statutory requirements.
• Prepares technically accurate and timely reports of inspections and surveys.

File Maintenance:

• Maintains survey files in an organized and up-to-date manner within the designated area of responsibility.

Leadership and Coordination:

• Plans, schedules, and coordinates various phases of surveying work.
• Monitors the quality of service, providing leadership and guidance to lower-level and less experienced surveyors.

Client Interaction:

• Engages with clients to solve problems within the area of expertise.
• Ensures client satisfaction through effective communication and resolution of issues.

Training and Development:

• Provides leadership, guidance, and training to lower-level and less experienced surveyors.
• Contributes to the development and improvement of the skills and knowledge of the surveying team.

Quality Assurance:

• Monitors work and projects performed by subordinate surveyors, ensuring the maintenance of quality, content, consistency, and continuity of work performed.

Problem Resolution and Innovation:

• Recommends new approaches to problems encountered and initiates changes in working methods and procedures as necessary.
• Actively contributes to the development and enhancement of surveying practices.

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 Surveyor.
• Understanding of RINA strategic technical positioning in the sector of the marine industry or minimum 7 years’ experience in the engineering or inspection/survey fields with an IACS member Classification Society.
• 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 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 and follow-up the repair works to hull, machinery and equipment to assign a new period of Class and a new period of validity to statutory Certificates in compliance with rules and regulations by means of overall and close-up inspections, verification upon dismantling, tests and trials (including surveys for Admission to Class of ships in service),
  • to attend major conversion works according with rules and regulations,
  • 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 issue Certificates, issue Reports and Status in compliance with rules and regulations.
• Knowledge of ship 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

• PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT - Promote commitment by keeping promises as a Role Model
• MANAGE EMOTIONS - Recognise one's and other's emotions and express and regulate one's reactions
• PIONEER CHANGE - Actively embrace change and benefit from the new circumstances
• BUILD NETWORK - Forge trust relationships, across departments, and outside the organization
• MAKE EFFECTIVE DECISIONS - Structure activities according to priorities, actions, resources and constraint
• ADDRESS THE WAY - Have a big picture of different situations and reinterpret it in a perspective way
• THINK FORWARD - Capitalise on experiences and translate them into action plans for the future
• CLIENT INTIMACY - Embrace internal and external client needs, expectations, and requirements to ensure maximum satisfaction
• EARN TRUST - Take everyone's opinion into account and remain open to diversity