Technical Manager

Journey with us! Combine your career goals and sense of adventure by joining our exciting team of employees. Royal Caribbean Group is pleased to offer a competitive compensation & benefits package, and excellent career development opportunities, each offering unique ways to explore the world.

About Us

Royal Caribbean Group is the world’s largest cruise line, having a record-breaking year and launching not one but TWO brand new ships in 2025! It couldn’t be a more exciting time to join a global business that is blazing a trail in the travel industry right now.

With our 3 brands Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises & Silversea we have ships in South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and several North American markets beyond our headquarters in Miami, FL. We cover the globe. No matter where our guests want to go, Royal Caribbean Group has a ship that can deliver a world-class vacation.

At Royal Caribbean Group we never rest on our laurels; we constantly strive to improve our work and be at the forefront of the industry. The work that we do is exciting, challenging, and innovative. You get to work both independently and as part of a collaborative and dynamic international team. We are passionate, we are innovative, and we are unstoppable.

Position Summary:

Technical Manager is responsible of all technical related topics and will overview and ensure that the ship will be ready at the delivery according to the contract specification, in time, quality and within budget. He/She is responsible for the technical team performance and management. He/She supports project management team on technical related matters. He/She is integral part of the people management organization of the site office.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work in seamless cooperation with Project Manager/Director in order to flawlessly deliver the projects assigned to him/her.
• Leads technical team, coordinating assignments, workload and ensuring team performance and wellbeing
• He/she creates the best work environment for his team, the Brand and the yard and Class societies and contractors’ colleagues to ensure efficiency and quality results.
• Participate new ship specification, naval architectural definition
• He/she creates a strong situational assessment on the technical situation of the project, data driven and factual, and steers the situation when needed to recover delays, quality gaps, and any other shortcoming
• He/she makes sure that the team is duly staffed and coordinated start up team members support
• Oversight of technical aspects of new ship construction, safety and design.
• Oversee the technical design, approvals, commissioning, including Quay / Sea Trial tests supervision including inspection reports and follow-up of given remarks and Field Comments with Superintendents 
• Overview and coordinates participation to F.A.T. process
• Overview Technical USPH and Environmental Compliance
• Manage and coordinate technical  meetings with Operations
• Technical responsibility for the ships to be delivered on time and on cost to the standards and quality in accordance with the contract specification.
• Ensure vessel is in compliance with all relevant regulations from various authorities.
• Risk assessment and management for his/her area of responsibility
• Familiarization of new technical team members with Superintendents
• Coordinate modification within technical areas
• Responsible of all project execution relevant energy savings and environmental projects
• He/She will provide post-delivery support and implementation of technical lessons learned
• Other work related duties as required

FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

Responsibility of technical and consultants costs within Project structure and budget.

Qualifications:

Naval architecture and/or knowledge from shipbuilding, new building site surveys, design,testings, especially from the owner field of expertise.

Key skills & experience required:

Fluency in English.

Computer literate.

Deep knowledge of SOLAS, IMO, MARPOL and other relevant regulation.

Team player, great communication skills

Able to resolve complex issues

Solution oriented

Willingness to intense travel

What we Offer. At Royal Caribbean Group, we are client-centric but put people first. We have a culture where everyone is trusted and valued in equal measure, whatever your role in the company. We are propelled by people. Our employees and crew are the driving force behind our success. Our aim is to recruit, develop and retain world class people, who come to Royal Caribbean to do the best work of their careers.

We are committed to employee development, and you will have the opportunity to learn from some of the most experienced people in the business. We regularly reward and promote success, encouraging staff to take on new challenges and responsibilities to aid progression.

Our remuneration package includes our competitive pension, private healthcare, life assurance cover to name a few. In addition, every permanent member of staff that works at Royal Caribbean is eligible for our cruise request program and friends & family cruise discounts.

Come join the team - Journey with us, succeed with us, grow with us.

We know there's a lot to consider. As you go through the application process, our recruiters will be glad to provide guidance, and more relevant details to answer any additional questions.

Thank you again for your interest in Royal Caribbean Group. We'll hope to see you onboard soon.

It is the policy of the Company to ensure equal employment and promotion opportunity to qualified candidates without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, sexuality, gender identity or expression, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Royal Caribbean Group and each of its subsidiaries prohibit and will not tolerate discrimination or harassment.

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