Senior Yachting Operations Surveyor

Mission

Ensuring the highest standards of safety, compliance, and seaworthiness in all yacht inspections, delivering expert assessments and trusted guidance to owners, operators, builders and other maritime industry stakeholders.

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Key Accountabilities

Key Accountabilities

1. Professional Specialist:

• Acts as a professional specialist, applying in-depth knowledge of Rules, Regulations, and industry concepts.

2. Keeps abreast of new developments Inspection and Reporting:

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

3. Leadership and Coordination:

• Plans, schedules, and coordinates various phases of surveying work.
• Monitors the quality of service, providing technical guidance on key projects

4. Client Interaction:

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

5. Training and Development:

• Provides training to less experienced surveyors.
• Capitalise on experiences and translate them into action plans for continuous development.

6. Quality Assurance
7. Ethical Conduct:

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

Education

Skills and qualifications

•    In general, minimum 10 years’ experience in the engineering or inspection/survey fields with an IACS member Classification Society, with specific focus on large yachts
•    Native level for Dutch language, both in writing and speaking. 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 knowledge of shipbuilding practices and ship operations.
•    Ability, in general, to perform either:
1.    New building surveys:
o    to assess the suitability of certified materials and products supplied for the new building,
o    to assess that hull, machinery and equipment have been built in compliance with rules and regulations by means of compulsory inspections, tests and trials,
o    to issue Certificates, Reports, Records and Status in compliance with rules and regulations.
And/or:
2.    Ship in service surveys:
o    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, 
o    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), 
o    to attend major conversion / refit works according with rules and regulations, 
And/or:
3.    Marine Management Systems audits
And/or:
4.    Testing activities and service suppliers/manufacturers certification:
o    to assess the suitability of certified materials and products in compliance with applicable rules.
o    to issue Certificates and prepare Reports and Status in compliance with procedures.
o    Knowledge of ship engineering systems and machinery.