Senior Vessel Optimisation Specialist
As a purpose-driven company with a heritage of leading shipping companies, we build and deliver a groundbreaking SaaS solution to change the shipping industry through digitalisation. We strive to help our customers optimise their business while reducing CO2 emissions. This is what empowers us.
Today, we are 200+ employees and more than 38 nationalities spread across offices in Copenhagen HQ, Athens, Varna, Mumbai, Singapore and New York City.
With a recent Series B capital raise of +$50 Mil, we are in a position to challenge the status quo. We proudly support the industry’s green transition and enable customers to turn data into immediate decarbonisation actions.
What does it mean to be a Senior Vessel Optimisation Specialist at ZeroNorth?
We are currently looking for a Senior Marine Engineer / Naval Architect with 3+ year of experience in the vessel performance and hull performance optimisation domains and with experience of leading and building teams in high growth environments, to strengthen our vessel optimisation team with strong acumen and team-presence.
Take a leading role in advising customers and colleagues on vessel hydrodynamics, fuel models, vessel performance and optimization.
As Senior Vessel Optimisation Specialist in the Customer Experience & Professional Services team, you will contribute to delivering world-class technical expertise as an individual contributor for vessel performance projects and tasks.
It is an exciting time for us, we are growing rapidly - come join us.
Your areas of responsibility:
- Provide tech support to customers of the domain software in regard to training, troubleshooting and engagement building.
- Collaborate with business leaders to deliver insights derived from data, highlight emerging trends/customer needs, and work through implications for business strategy·
- Develop and improve the team’s internal processes and daily deliverables.
- Track and ensure timely customer deliverables as per the SLAs of the team.
- Liaise with the product development team in regard to product ideas, testing and bug fixing.
- Idea generation, participation and effective handling of dynamic ad-hoc projects.
- Assist on performance monitoring and optimization tasks by providing analytical, fact-based decision support.
- Create and maintain theoretical performance models/hydrodynamic models to analyse the impact of weather conditions, hull fouling and other external factors on the propulsion efficiency of the vessels as well as the total energy management of all onboard systems.
Who are you?
- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Marine Engineering / Naval Architecture; last sailed as 2nd or 3rd Engineer with 3+ years of experience in onboard merchant vessels with the domain of vessel performance and hull performance optimization.
- Have lead/built a team in fast paced organization.
- Subject matter expert level knowledge in technical performance of vessels, data-collection from vessels and fuel models. Knowledge of EEXI, EEOI & CII will be an added advantage.
- Great problem solving skills, solution oriented mindset and self starter attitude is a demand of the job profile.
- Fluency of communication in English.
About us
We are ambitious and passionate with an exceptional “Can Do” attitude. We work in a dynamic and informal space with everything you could dream of, such as food, games, fantastic coffee and amazing people. We love what we do - creating apps and services that help scale and optimise everyday challenges. While doing this, we save costs and provide a severe reduction worldwide in CO2 emissions.
We are on a mission for the betterment of our planet, our people, and our company culture. Therefore, we embrace and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply - regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, neurodiversity, socio-economic status, culture or beliefs.
- Team
- Customer Experience & Professional Services
- Locations
- Mumbai
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
- Employment type
- Full-time

Mumbai
Workplace & Culture
Collaboration, creatively.
Our team is growing, and as a market leader in digitalisation for shipping, we believe firmly that the only way forward is together. With some of the greatest creative minds, digital specialists and out-of-the-box thinkers in shipping tech, we encourage collaborative and close working, getting to the core of ZeroNorth’s mission.
Based in a newly renovated, modern building, ZeroNorth’s headquarters are in the centre of Copenhagen. Our offices are uniquely designed in line with our commitment to collaboration, ideas over titles and flexibility. As we continue to grow and face changing priorities as a workforce, we also encourage remote working.
About ZeroNorth
Recognising the challenges posed by climate change, technology company ZeroNorth was founded to accelerate the transition to greener global trade. By blending cutting-edge data-driven technology with human expertise, the ZeroNorth platform provides a range of software solutions that are helping the global shipping industry cut emissions and reduce its impact on the climate, whilst improving commercial performance.
ZeroNorth offers one platform with multiple services and is an industry-leading software developer, which interconnects data into insights and actions, optimising global trade for cargo owners, vessel owners, commercial operators, charterers, and bunker suppliers. The company’s software offers a full range of services which support the value chain to increase earnings and reduce CO2 emissions.
Senior Vessel Optimisation Specialist
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