Poland Principal Hull Plan Approval Engineer

Mission

This role focuses on on ensuring that plan and design reviews are analyzed according to the highest quality standards, ensuring that client requirements and applicable standards or adequate safety criteria are met.

Projects could include the approval of new building, conversion, and existing vessels and yachts.

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Key Accountabilities

• Review and approve hull structural drawings of ships, offshore units, and marine equipment, in compliance with Class Rules and Statutory Regulations, for new buildings, ships in service, and ship’s conversions.
   
• Assist clients during the design and construction phase, providing guidance and support related to structural design.
• Ensure that reviews of novel aspects, falling outside the plan approval field of competence, are of thehighest quality and in compliance with applicable RINA rules, international conventions and contractual requirements.
• Resolve complex issues related to conflicting design requirements and material standards.
• Perform complex or non-standard assessments and provide expert advice for service delivery, research or development work within agreed broad parameters that include budget constraints and contractual requirements. 
• For the activities in charge: ensure correct and up-to-date data is used and complete documentation is submitted to officials, review and ensure compliance with project schedules and deliverable timelines, review the project deliverables (technical reports, project performance.
• Take ownership and responsibility over the financial progress of assigned tasks.
• Understand and apply project management concepts proactively providing feedback to project.
• Manage simple and complex projects assigned applying project management, concepts and techniques.
• Assess highly technical complex or novel issues problems for internal/external clients to identify solutions, including highly technical complex or novel issues falling outside the plan approval field of competence.

Education

Qualifications

Experience

• Minimum 8 years of experience in hull structure design, shipbuilding, or classification society plan approval.
• In-depth knowledge of IMO conventions, SOLAS, MARPOL, and IACS regulations related to ship structures.
• Strong background in reviewing and approving structural drawings, scantlings, and finite element analysis (FEA) reports.
• Experience in fatigue analysis, and structural integrity assessment of different ship types.

Technical Skills

• Expertise in hull structural design, including primary and secondary structures for different vessel types (tankers, bulk carriers, container ships, passenger vessels).
• Strong understanding of material properties, welding procedures, and structural reinforcements.
• Ability to assess compliance with classification rules and statutory requirements for hull strength, longitudinal strength, and buckling criteria.
• Familiarity with structural analysis software (e.g., ANSYS, Nastran, FEMAP, or classification society-specific tools).