Fire Safety and Risk Assessment Engineer - Maritime Advisory (m/f/d)

About Us

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.

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

The Safety and Systems Engineering unit within Maritime Advisory is responsible for a broad range of services covering environmental compliance, risk assessments, system risk assessments, alternative design assessments including fire safety and system analyses with focus on alternative fuels. This includes external customer projects as well as internal support and R&D projects.

What You Will Do

• Conduct risk assessments for novel designs and arrangements
• Perform fire and evacuation simulations
• Prepare and facilitate client meetings (e.g. HAZID workshops)
• Produce independent and confident technical reports
• Manage your own projects within agreed schedule and budget
• Contribute your expertise to our highly skilled, multi-disciplinary team
• Build and maintain strong and professional customer relationships

What we offer

A career in DNV is not just a job. It is an extraordinary opportunity to develop and enrich your life and make more of a global impact than you ever believed possible. Our benefits package is specifically designed to support your physical, financial and social well‑being:

• A strong company culture with an emphasis on competence development
• The possibility to grow and develop your competencies and ambitions within DNV
• Great colleagues who value teamwork and support in an international working environment
• Flexible working hours and focus on work/life balance
• Attractive total compensation package
• Family‑friendly yearly Profit Share policy, including eligibility during parental leave (up to 12 months)
• 100% employer‑funded pension scheme
• Yearly review of individual career plan & development, including an annual salary review
• Company Sports & Urban Sports Club Membership
• Bike Leasing (JobRad)
• Support through the Fürstenberg Institute – confidential counseling and resources to promote mental wellbeing
• Discounted meal offers and company canteen depending on location
• Other additional benefits - Sabbatical, Employee Assistance Program, Corporate Benefits
• Be part of a world‑leading company that has a global reach with more than 15,000 employees around the world

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.

Required

• University degree in engineering (esp. Safety Engineering, Fire Safety Engineering and Hazard Control, Marine Engineering, Civil Engineering)
• Experience in fire safety engineering and risk assessment methodology

Favourable

• Experience with fire and smoke simulation
• Competence in the development of design fire scenarios
• Experience in system safety

Personal

• Team player with strong communication skills and an open‑minded attitude, structured, target oriented, service and customer minded
• High level of perception, flexibility, and personal responsibility
• Fluent in English
• Valid driver license
• Open to business travel

Security and compliance with statutory requirements in the countries in which we operate is essential for DNV. Background checks will be conducted on all final candidates as part of the offer process, in accordance with applicable country‑specific laws and practices.

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