Principal Hull Plan Approval Engineer

RINA is currently recruiting for a Principal Hull Plan Approval Engineer to join its office in Sunrise within the North America Marine Division.

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.

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

Bachelor’s Degree in Naval Engineering

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 damage stability, 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).
  
  

Competencies

• DOMAIN & BUSINESS ACUMEN - Applying a scientific approach and critical thinking in operations and solution development within area of expertise.
• INTERPERSONAL INFLUENCE - Skills and strategies we use to interact effectively with others.
• WORKPLACE DYNAMICS - Resourcefulness in shaping progress and working efficiently.
• FORESIGHT & INSIGHT - Context awareness adopting a systemic perspective and informed decision making.
• PERSONAL EMPOWERMENT - Ownership for life, work and results, striving to grow professionally and personally.
  
  

RINA is a multinational company providing a wide range of services in the energy, marine, certification, infrastructure & mobility, industry, research & development sectors. Our business model covers the full process of project development, from concept to completion.

At RINA, we endeavor to create a work environment where every single person is valued and encouraged to develop new ideas. We provide equal employment opportunities and are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels respected and safe from discrimination or harassment of any kind. It is the policy of RINA to provide equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy) national origin, age, disabilities, marital status, sexual orientation, genetics, military status, disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, other protected veterans (veterans who served during a war or in a campaign or expedition for which a badge has been authorized), and Armed Forces service medal veteran, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law. We are strongly committed to this policy and believe in the concept and spirit of the law.

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