Salvage Engineer

Overview

Salvage Engineer performs ship emergency repairs worldwide with a mobile team.

Key Responsibilities

• equipment selection
• maintenance setup
• knowledge sharing
• report production
• site support
• system access

Tasks

-When at base, assisting the technical manager and the operations manager in the selection of new salvage equipment and setting up the right maintenance procedures. -Sharing knowledge with other engineers about complex ship's systems. -Producing reports about the actions taken to get systems operational again. As you can expect from a leading international maritime service company, you will work with state-of-the-art equipment. -Your team: As a Salvage Engineer you will work for SMIT Salvage Houston. You will work for one of the largest salvage companies in the world. You will also work with various other colleagues who are part of the worldwide Salvage team. -As part of the mobile team, provide support to the salvage master/project manager at site. -Advising the salvage inspector and superintendent about how to break into existing ship's systems in order to use them during the salvage operation. -Maintaining company owned salvage equipment.

Requirements

• vessels
• engine-room
• degree
• onboard
• 5 years
• merchant

What You Bring

-Preferably experience with a range of different types of vessels and engine-room plants. -A minimum degree in any field with experience sailing onboard ships. -Worked for at least 5 years on modern (merchant) ships.

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Benefits

-Where you will work: You will work at our office in Houston and at project locations worldwide (approximately 150 days a year). -Warm welcome: We warmly welcome our new colleagues, so they feel at home as soon as possible. During your onboarding program, we give you all the ins and outs of Smit Salvage! -Willingness to work on weekends and public holidays frequently, with OT and allowances compensated. -Career opportunities: We challenge you every day to get better. Together we realize your full personal and professional career by creating development opportunities.

About Boskalis

-it has evolved from a local dredging firm to a global maritime powerhouse. -It built its reputation working on iconic projects like the Dutch Delta Works, Hong Kong airport reclamation, and the Øresund Tunnel. -Now equipped with 500+ vessels, it tackles diverse challenges—from deepening ports to constructing offshore energy facilities. -Financially robust, recent results show record net profit of €781 million. -It executes major land reclamation, coastal defense, and harbor expansion projects worldwide. -In offshore energy it installs, maintains, and decommissions oil, gas and wind infrastructure. -Through acquisitions like Dockwise, Gardline and Smit Lamnalco, it offers towing, salvage, subsea surveys and terminal services. -Unusual feats include deploying semi‑submersible heavy‑transport vessels and pioneering cable‑laying for offshore wind farms.

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Interview Process

-two or more job interviews.