Senior Surveyor

Job ID:41534
Location:Miami: 900 S Pine Island 
Position Category:Surveyor
Position Type:Employee Regular

Senior Surveyor – Global Digital Survey Centre (Miami)

Lloyd’s Register

Location: Remote role based in the Americas

What we’re looking for

The Senior Surveyor in the Global Digital Survey Centre (Miami) delivers remote/digital surveys using advanced inspection technologies and proven remote techniques. The role captures, validates and analyses survey evidence to determine compliance of assets with LR Classification Rules and applicable statutory requirements.

In addition, the Senior Surveyor supports the Digital Survey Team Lead by monitoring workload and quality, coaching colleagues and contributing to overall team performance.

The Global Digital Survey Centre (Miami) primarily undertakes remote surveys for Passenger Cruise vessels and conducts urgent remote survey support for all vessel types worldwide during on-duty periods.

The Senior Surveyor should be experienced, proactive, passionate, and able to work under pressure and make tough decisions.

What we offer you

• The opportunity to work for an organization that has a strong sense of purpose, is values driven and helps colleagues to develop professionally and personally through our range of people development programmes
• Fulltime position

The role

• Deliver remote surveys using approved digital and remote techniques to assess the condition, compliance, and integrity of marine assets.
• Evaluate and interpret survey data to confirm compliance with applicable LR Rules, statutory regulations, and international standards, identifying risks and non‑conformities.
• Produce accurate, high‑quality survey reports, ensuring findings are clearly documented, recorded, and issued within agreed timeframes.
• Act as a senior technical resource for complex or non‑routine surveys, providing expert judgement and guidance to surveyors and stakeholders.
• Work collaboratively with technical specialists and colleagues to resolve technical issues and enhance survey methodologies and outcomes.
• Communicate effectively with shipowners, managers, flag administrations, and regulatory bodies to ensure clarity of survey scope, requirements, and conclusions.
• Plan and execute survey activities efficiently, balancing operational constraints, asset availability, and client expectations.
• Maintain competence and authorisations by remaining current with LR training, qualification requirements, regulatory developments, and emerging digital technologies.
• Contribute to continuous improvement by identifying opportunities for process optimisation, automation, and digitalisation of survey delivery.
• Support the Team Lead in coaching, mentoring, and developing surveyors, promoting technical excellence, consistency, and knowledge sharing across the team.

What you bring

• A degree or equivalent from a tertiary organisation recognised by Lloyd’s Register within the relevant field of engineering or physical science (minimum of two years programme) or Qualifications from a marine or nautical institution and relevant sea-going experience as a certificated ship’s officer.
• Strong professional experience in marine surveying in particular Passenger Cruise Vessels.
• To work in accordance with professional codes of conduct and the LR Code of Ethics in IMS01.

• To use a combination of general and specialist engineering knowledge and understanding to optimise the application of existing and emerging technology.
• To be able to apply appropriate theoretical and practical methods to the analysis and solution of engineering problems.
• To provide technical and commercial leadership within the responsibilities assigned.
• Proficiency in the English language commensurate with the work.

You are someone who

• Is keen to take accountability and ownership for delivering customer needs
• Is able to self-manage and prioritize tasks towards achieving goals
• Is effective at solving problems, trouble-shooting and making timely decisions
• Is flexible and eager to take initiatives
• Communicates in a structured way and has ability to present technical ideas in user-friendly language
• Displays a team spirit, particularly in a multicultural environment
• Responds positively to learning opportunities and is comfortable stepping out of own comfort zone

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About us 

We are a leading international technical professional service provider and a leader in classification, compliance, and consultancy services to the marine and offshore industry, a trusted advisor to our customers helping to design, construct and operate their assets to the highest levels of safety and performance. We are shaping the industry’s future through the development of novel and innovative technology for the next generation of assets, while continuing to deliver solutions for our customers every day.

Be a part of 

Lloyd’s Register is wholly owned by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, a politically and financially independent global charity that aims to engineer a safer world through promoting safety and education. For a thriving ocean economy, Lloyd’s Register colleagues and Lloyd’s Register Foundation work together to fund research, foster industry collaboration and develop action-oriented solutions to make the world a safer place. 

Want to apply. 

Here at Lloyd’s Register, we care, we share and we do the right thing in every situation. It’s ingrained in our culture and everything we do. We are committed, and continually strive, to lead with our values that empower and enable an inclusive environment conducive to your growth, development and engagement. It doesn’t matter who you are, what you have experienced, how you identify, how old you are, where you are from, what your beliefs are or how your brain or body works – the diversity of our colleagues is fundamental to our futures and the changes we can make together. Our inclusive culture allows us to connect together authentically and to be courageous and bold. We don’t just talk about our differences, we celebrate them! 

We are committed to making all stages of our recruitment process accessible to all candidates. Please let us know if you need any assistance or reasonable adjustments throughout your application and we will do everything we possibly can to support you. 

 If you don't tick every box in these ads, please don't rule yourself out. We focus on hiring people who share our goal of working together for a safer, sustainable, thriving ocean economy. 

We care, we share, we do the right thing.

If you have further questions about this role, please contact us at careers@lr.org and we will respond to you as soon as possible.

Diversity and Inclusion at Lloyd's Register:

Together we are one Lloyd’s Register, committed to developing an inclusive and safe workplace that embraces and celebrates diversity. We strive to ensure that all applicants to LR experience equality of opportunity and fair treatment, because we believe it is the right thing to do. We hope you do too.

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• ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible.
• communicating and promoting vacancies offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job.
• anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
• supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long-term health condition, enabling them to stay in work.
• at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people.

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