South Africa Marine Senior Surveyor

**Posting Date**:9 Oct 2025

**City**:Cape Town

**Location**:Cape Town, ZA

**Contract Type**:Permanent

**Division**:Mediterranean and Africa Marine

**Level of experience**:Senior
- RINA is currently recruiting for a Senior Marine Surveyor to join its office in **South Africa**within the Mediterranean and Africa Marine Division.

**Mission**-
**Key Accountabilities**
- 1. Professional Specialist:

- Keeps abreast of new developments and recommends changes to surveying processes and safety programs.

2. Inspection and Reporting:

- Conducts routine surveys on classed ships, offshore installations, or marine assets 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 guidance to less experienced surveyors.

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 guidance, and training to less experienced surveyors.
- Contributes to the development and improvement of the skills and knowledge of the surveying team.

6. Quality Assurance:
7. Ensures the maintenance of quality, content, consistency, and continuity of work performed.
8. 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**
- In general, minimum 3 years’ experience working as a Surveyor or minimum 6 years’ experience in the engineering or inspection/survey fields with an IACS member Classification Society.
- Understanding of RINA strategic technical positioning in the sector of the marine industry
- 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:

- 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 issue Certificates, Reports, Records and Status in compliance with rules and regulations.

And/or:
2) ship in service surveys:

- 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,
- 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 condition 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

conditions,
- to assess whether the deficiencies identified (if any) may be linked with potential failure of the Ship

Management System,
- to endorse Certificates, issue Reports and Status in compliance with rules and regulations.

And/or:

- Marine Management Systems audits

And/or:
1) testing activities and service suppliers/manufacturers certification:

- to assess the suitability of certified materials and products in compliance with applicable rules
- to issue Certificates and prepare Reports and Status in compliance with procedures.
- 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
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