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.

The Lifting Appliance section is part of the Approval Center Europe in DNV Maritime Ship Classification. We are an international and cross-location team with colleagues working in Hamburg and Gdynia.

We’re looking for a curious, agile, and motivated Junior Approval Engineer to join our Lifting Appliance team in Gdynia, Poland. You’ll be part of a close-knit group of nine highly skilled engineers working on design approval and shaping the future of our Shipboard Crane Design and Certification Standard.

In this role, you’ll get hands‑on experience with exciting tasks, including:

• Reviewing designs and documents for marine lifting appliances and launching devices against DNV and international standards
• Performing strength, stability, and fatigue analyses as part of design appraisals
• Providing technical advice to crane and davit manufacturers and lifting appliance operators
• Supporting surveyors and the sales team with your expertise
• Collaborating in our global lifting appliance practice network
• Contributing to the development of DNV’s Crane Standard

As an approval engineer in our unit, you will become part of a highly qualified team focusing on safety of shipboard lifting appliances, launching appliances, elevators, accommodation ladders and shipboard gangways. We perform Design Approval, Type Approval and MED/MER Certification of the above equipment.

We’re passionate about being a trusted partner, offering real value to our customers and DNV offices worldwide. When you join us, you step into a supportive, service‑focused environment where your growth truly matters. You’ll have plenty of chances to sharpen your skills, explore new opportunities, and build expertise. Plus, you’ll work in a global setting—connecting with customers and colleagues from all over the world—creating a network that opens doors and inspires collaboration.

We’ll provide all the training you need to gain the right MTAS competence. This means you’ll have the support and resources to grow your skills and, in time, work independently. You’ll play a key role in delivering high‑quality solutions for both our internal teams and external customers—always aligned with our standards and guidelines.

Working at DNV gives you a wide range of benefits, which are strongly aligned with our values, created with care for our employees’ work‑life balance, and enable them to dare to develop in their chosen fields.

Find some of them:

• Hybrid workplace model (3 days in the office, 2 days from home + additional package of occasional home office days).
• A wide portfolio of self‑learning trainings on Coursera platform.
• Personal growth opportunities, focusing on employee competences.
• Medical package (Medicover) and life insurance, mental health helpline, grant for glasses.
• Pension Scheme (PPE) and Profit Share.
• 33 days of sick leave fully paid by the employer.
• We offer yearly salary review.
• Multisport card or sports allowance (Worksmile platform).
• Education support by subsidizing language lessons.
• Events and celebrations (ex. lunch cards, social events, Christmas and anniversary vouchers, wedding gifts).
• Sport, music and charity activities withing the internal community CONNECT Gdynia.
• Emphasis on Scandinavian working style, focusing on trust and empowerment.
• Access to holiday cabins in Norway.

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.

You hold an engineering degree (MSc or BSc) in Materials Handling, Mechanical Engineering, Naval Architecture, or Steel Structural Engineering.

• You have experience in design and strength analysis, including FEM techniques.
• You possess a strong technical understanding of structural details.
• You take a systematic, solution‑oriented approach to tasks, work well under pressure, and demonstrate a high level of personal responsibility.
• You are communicative, confident, and a flexible team player who can also work independently and stay organized.
• You bring 2–5 years of relevant work experience.
• You are thorough, analytical, and customer‑focused.
• You are result‑driven, motivated, and eager to expand your skills.
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

Personal Qualities

• A strong team player who can manage multiple tasks effectively.
• Comfortable representing the section internally and externally, including interactions with customers worldwide.
• Skilled in communication, presentation, and administration, with a structured and systematic approach.
• Service‑minded, proactive, solution‑oriented, and flexible.
• High personal integrity and professionalism.

Application requirements

To ensure a thorough evaluation, please submit the following documents in English:

• Curriculum Vitae (CV)
• Cover Letter/Motivation Letter

Additional Information

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.