AVP, Maritime Safety and Global Security

 Great vacations begin with great employees!

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. is one of the world’s leading and revolutionary cruise lines. The company operates under the Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity and Azamara brands. Currently the fleet has 31 ships in service visiting over 180 attractive destinations.

Combine your experience and sense of adventure by joining our exciting land-based team of employees. Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. is pleased to offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, excellent career development opportunities, each offering unique ways to explore the world.

Join our team as an AVP, Maritime Safety and Global Security!!

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

1. Verify operational compliance with Safety Quality Management (SQM) corporate procedures and ensure that policy development is in accordance with relevant rules and regulations;
2. Provide guidance and subject matter expertise to senior management for safety and security related technical and regulatory issues; may serve as corporate representative for policy related matters at the industry level and with other organizations such as the International Maritime Organization, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the National Transportation Safety Board;
3. Develop and maintain the corporation’s Situation Management plans and procedures; prepare and conduct incident management exercises for senior management to test organizational preparedness to respond to emergencies, develop lessons learned from exercises and drive continuous improvement in these areas;
4. Leads departments that assure the company is in compliance of regulatory code, including Information Security Management (ISM) regulations and requirements.
5. Oversees the SQM & audit process for the company and coordinates with classification societies.
6. Coordinate and develop investigation processes and systems for managing security and safety incidents,
including reporting the facts, contributing factors and recommendations to applicable departments and senior management, and tracking corrective action on recommendations approved by senior management;
7. Establish and track leading indicators for operational risk related areas and develop corporate safety and security metrics.
8. Administer RCL’s Management Review process in accordance with the ISM Code, coordinate Operational Review Boards and the Executive Management Review process; develop briefings for RCL Board of Directors as required;

9. Develop and administer approximately $8M+ annual budget (SG&A), ensuring corporate priorities are met with efficiency and accountability.

10. Performs other duties as required. This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Employees will be required to perform any other job-related duties assigned by their supervisor or management.

Qualifications:

• Minimum 7 years successful experience relevant to this position.


• Demonstrated success in leading department’s and organizations.


• Excellent verbal and written communication skills required.


• Ability to lead diverse and highly technical team of individuals and be accessible 24/7/365.


• Must be eligible to work in the Continental United States.

RCL is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.