Marine Risk Modeller

RightShip Pty Ltd

Marine Risk Modeller
RightShip Pty Ltd

Global industry leader with a bright future

Attractive Salary and Benefits Package

Melbourne CBD

The Company

RightShip is a highly innovative specialist supplier of marine and environmental risk management solutions to the global maritime industry. Formed in 2001, we have gone from strength to strength within the domestic and international markets, using our growing influence to promote safety and efficiency in the global maritime industry. We do this by offering the commercial shipping industry a Ship Vetting Information System (Qi) that is the most comprehensive, holistic, online risk management system in the world. More recently, we developed an environmental rating to help subscribers who want to make sustainability a key part of their decisions about vessels.

With less than 40 employees globally, we all have a role to play in the success of our business. We offer a great culture with great people plus a very competitive remuneration and benefits package. There are many perks to working at RightShip!

The Role

An exciting opportunity now exists for an experienced risk modeller to put your superior statistical and modelling skills in to practice. Reporting to the Senior Marine Risk Modeller, you will provide accurate and timely analytical and statistical support to the business, whilst also being responsible for following duties/projects during your initial tenure:

Improve RightShip's customised shipping risk algorithm, for example by identifying new prediction variables for maritime risk

Use text mining to refine risk algorithms for specific casualty types for example specific risk models for groundings or other maritime incidents

Develop social network analysis to find communities of ship controlling organizations (owners, managers, parents) with similar behaviour and risk profile

Contribute to analysis for direct data analysis clients, including business understanding, data understanding, data preparation, modelling and evaluation

Perform survival analysis on commercial fleet to establish link between safety risk and vessel longevity (in order to test theory that safer ships are more profitable and hence less likely to be scrapped)

Improve data quality using a range of predictive modelling tools including text mining

The Successful Candidate

To be successful in this role you will have:

Honours degree in a Statistical discipline (or working towards)

Knowledge of predictive modelling algorithms and statistics including GLMs.

Solid understanding of the Risk Management Process

Some knowledge of programming – languages widely used in statistics/ computation such as R, Python, Perl and Matlab - highly regarded.

Familiarity with database design and SQL - highly regarded.

Understanding of text mining an advantage

Prior experience using SPSS Modeler and/or Tableau an advantage

A proven self-starter, you have concise written and verbal communication skills and the ability to explain technical information to a non-technical audience. These attributes, coupled with your ability to deal with multiple conflicting deadlines and build effective working relationships with all stakeholders, will hold you in good stead for this role.

Interested? Then please email your current resume and covering letter to Kate Kydd, HR Consultant, at kate.kydd@rightship.com. Applications for this position close on Friday, 28 November. For further information, please contact either:

Robert De Graaf, Senior Marine Risk Modeller +61 3 8686 5736 , robert.degraaf@rightship.com or,

Kate Kydd, Human Resources on +61 3 8686 5753, kate.kydd@rightship.com

A complete position description for this role is available.

www.rightship.com

RightShip Pty Ltd
Level 20, 500 Collins Street
Melbourne Vic 3000