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3.0
21 Jul 2022

Marine engineer

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Premium company car Fuel, parking and tolls provided Flexible working hour Hybrid work Premium insurance cover all family members Good culture and diversity

Cons

Guidance and instruction sometime in grey Career goes very slow Hard for job rotation Not competitive salary Less bonus Hard to get external training Limited annual leave

4.0
22 Sept 2024
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Good work-life balance and collaborative environment.

Cons

Poor attention on training, especially at management level.

2.0
10 Jan 2023
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Pros

Certification expertise Route to compliance On-site audits Training

Cons

Exhausting tasks, rules, multiple requests without coherence, salary without hope of being increased, lack of bonus, limitation in promotion

5.0
9 Jun 2023

Flexible

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Pros

Very flexible working arrangements. Company cares about your wellbeing.

Cons

Lack of formal training on procedures

4.0
19 Feb 2024

A good starting point

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Pros

Very varied work Good work colleagues Good benefits

Cons

Everything is done with urgency Few or no career opportunities Zero training

1.0
8 Mar 2024
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Pros

Flexible working (100% wfh for some). Some genuinely great local team memebers (those who are left).

Cons

Toxic executive management who show nothing but contempt for local staff. Almost 80% of staff has left following ridiculous decisions from people with little to no clue about the local market and culture. No formal training in place for junior members. Cancelled christmas parties. Ridiculous bureaucracy crippling output. Don't work here.

2.0
27 May 2025

The Experience

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Pros

1. Excellent culture atmosphere. 2. Fast and Intensive training on the job. 3. Limited travelling abroad - for someone who doesn't want a lot of travelling 4. Good remote working culture (up to 12 working days a month) 5. Benefits are relatively good (car, expenses, mobile, phone number)

Cons

1. Base Salary & overtime pay is less than the rest of classification societies and less than the desired for the responsibilities you undertake. 2. Fleet consists of very old (over 30 years old) passenger vessels resulting in many occasional surveys around the Greek ports 3. Bad management (micromanagement) due to the extreme overload of Jobs resulting in frustration and confusion between the employees. 4. The surveyors numbers and experience are much less than the required level for handling cases as difficult and delicate as the one RINA has - In desperate need for experienced surveyors. 5. Bad work life balance due to long hours (especially outside of working hours) to the point of burnout. 6. HR & Senior Management in general don't how to hire and more importantly how to keep their people

2.0
20 Sept 2021

Global pay scale

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Some senior management are ok. Maybe a place to grow, and learn to be a marine surveyor, but they don't invest in their surveyors in courses or trainings, they prefer to poach from other class societies with a promise of a manager role, or higher pay, but I leave that to your imagination if that is the truth?

Cons

You will see many RINA vacancies globally at the moment, but they need to line up salaries to meet local requirements, and not to mention salaries inline with other classification societies. Take for example, in Sweden (Gothenburg) the senior surveyor could not even afford to live in the city, and had to relocate to the countryside because his salary with RINA does not allow him to live a comfortable middle-class lifestyle. The same globally, in the U.S, in other part of Europe, Asia / Pacific. RINA charges overtime to the clients if a surveyor has to work out of normal working hours / weekend, but the surveyor does not get a single cent ! Now how can you expect them to pay decent salary when they charge clients peanuts? They are most likely the cheapest class society in the market at the moment, and most choose RINA for the price (remember you get what you pay for), and in return, you get surveyors who are inexperienced, incompetent or just good ones that really just don't care anymore, there is no incentive to thrive or do a good job. At the end of the day, we are all working for a better life, and if you are not paid what you deserve, it is only a matter of time before you leave. Maybe that is what RINA's wants, so they get an inexperienced guy in, and pay him the low rates as he cannot the demand or expect a higher salary?

4.0
8 Oct 2025
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Pros

Flexible, good benefits, good pay, wfh, pension contributions

Cons

No retention policy, no growth, no help with professional accreditation, no formal training, learn as you go

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