Maritime Structure Vetting Assessor
Join Shell Shipping & Maritime’s Assurance team in Chennai, where you'll support both local and global Shell and Joint Venture businesses. Our team is a vibrant and positive place to work, valuing diversity of experience and thought. We believe in fostering an inclusive culture and work environment where you can thrive, innovate, develop, and most importantly, be yourself.
Our team, composed of diverse nationalities, collaborates with vessel operators from around the globe. We cherish an inclusive environment where different values and perspectives are celebrated, with safety as the top priority in every activity.
Expect plenty of support and encouragement while you’re here. You'll work alongside people who share your passion for safety and compliance. We place a high value on career growth, and with significant changes impacting our industry, you'll have opportunities to develop new areas of expertise and tackle rewarding challenges in the digital space as we pioneer new ways of working.
Where You Fit In?
You will join Shell Shipping & Maritime’s Assurance team in Chennai, supporting both local and global Shell and Joint Venture businesses. Our team is a positive place to work, valuing diversity of experience and thought. We believe in creating an inclusive culture and work environment where you can thrive, innovate, develop, and most importantly, be yourself.
Our team, composed of diverse nationalities, collaborates with vessel operators from around the globe. We cherish an inclusive environment where different values and perspectives are celebrated, with safety as the top priority in every activity.
Expect plenty of support and encouragement while you’re here. You will work alongside people who share your passion for safety and compliance. We highly value career growth, and with significant changes impacting our industry, you will have opportunities to develop new areas of expertise and tackle rewarding challenges in the digital space as we pioneer new ways of working.
What is the Role?
The Maritime Structure Vetting Assessor is perfect for a Maritime Professional with a Naval Architecture background who has a passion for safety and the ability to tackle engaging projects during a time of significant industry change.
If you are a Naval Architect with experience in shipbuilding, ship owning, or classification environments, particularly with a focus on Tankers and LNG carriers, we offer you the opportunity to elevate your career. You will drive improvements in safety, environmental performance, compliance, and digitalization within our industry.
Bring your Maritime/Naval Architecture skills to us, and we will enhance your knowledge of assurance activities and their connection to our commercial exposures. We will develop you into a maritime assurance expert, helping us manage current and emerging maritime risks that impact our business stakeholders.
On a day-to-day basis, your role will include the following:
Engage with Technical Operators: Collaborate on repair and structural issues to ensure optimal vessel performance.
Analyse Class Reports/Documentation: Conduct thorough reviews of class reports and related documentation.
Review Survey/CAP Assessments: Evaluate survey and Condition Assessment Program (CAP) assessments to maintain high standards.
Performance Analysis: Assess the effectiveness of hull coatings to enhance vessel efficiency.
Mooring Fitting Review: Examine mooring fittings to ensure safety and reliability.
Assessing the quality of all internationally trading tankers, dry bulk carriers, and project vessels proposed for use by Royal Dutch Shell Group Companies, ensuring Shell avoids using or being associated with sub-standard ships, thereby minimizing the risk of:
Harm to people or the environment
Damage to Shell’s reputation
Financial claims on Shell
These activities will span across Crude, Products, LNG, and Specialty businesses. You will engage both internally and externally, fostering a spirit of partnership.
We will entrust you with the responsibility of positively assuring Shell’s maritime activities, managing the effective close-out of maritime incidents, and conducting reviews of third-party ship management companies. These tasks significantly impact Shell’s reputation in the maritime industry due to the high level of engagement with external stakeholders. You will be in a highly visible role, serving as the focal point for several engaging projects.
As a Maritime Structure Vetting Assessor, you will share your maritime expertise across all areas of Maritime Assurance. Working both independently and as an integral part of a virtual team, you will thrive on collaborative relationships with a range of stakeholders.
What We Need from You?
We are eager to hear from individuals with a Naval Architecture degree who have a solid understanding of relevant international standards, Classification Society rules, and regulations. We will also provide you with an overview of Shell Design Engineering practices.
In addition, we hope to see the following in your profile:
Experienced Naval Architect, with a minimum of 5 years in a Naval Architecture in Shipyards, Class or Design Houses working across Tankers (Oil, Gas, Chemical)
Relevant experience in a similar field
A solid understanding of tanker operations
Recent operational or business experience that can be utilized to manage current and emerging maritime risks
Evidence of your resilience and ability to successfully manage challenges and conflicts
Excellent oral and written presentation skills
An Innovative place to work
There’s never been a more exciting time to work at Shell. Everyone here is helping solve one of the biggest challenges facing the world today: bringing the benefits of energy to everyone on the planet, whilst managing the risks of climate change.
Our business has been built on a foundation of innovative technology and skilled employees. By providing energy to sustain people’s lives for more than a hundred years, Shell has become one of the world’s leading companies.
Join us and you’ll be adding your talent and imagination to a business with the ambition to shape the future. At Shell, everyone does their part.
An Inclusive place to work
Shell is working to become one of the most diverse, equitable, and inclusive organizations in the world. We are taking steps to create an environment where everyone – from our employees, to our customers, partners, and suppliers – feels valued, respected, and has a strong sense of belonging.
To achieve this, we must ensure all people are treated fairly, irrespective of their race, color, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, ethnic origin, nationality, or other status.
To power progress together, we need to attract and develop the brightest minds and make sure every voice is heard. Here are just some of the ways we are nurturing an inclusive environment – one where you can express your ideas, extend your skills, and reach your potential.
We’re closing the gender gap – whether that’s through action on equal pay or by enabling more women to reach senior roles in engineering and technology.
We’re striving to be a pioneer of an inclusive and diverse workplace, promoting equality for employees regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.
We consider ourselves a flexible employer and want to support you finding the right balance. We encourage you to discuss this with us in your application.
A rewarding place to work
Combine our creative, collaborative environment and global operations with an impressive range of benefits and joining Shell becomes an inspired career choice.
We’re huge advocates for career development. We’ll encourage you to try new roles and experience new settings. By pushing people to reach their potential, we frequently help them find skills they never knew they had, or make career moves they never thought possible.