Senior Naval Architect

Royal Caribbean Group; Saint-Nazaire; Sur place; EUR 90 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Royal Caribbean Group in Saint-Nazaire seeks a Senior Naval Architect to lead naval architecture activities for newbuild projects, collaborating with architects, shipyards and brand teams to ensure design excellence and operability.

You will oversee design and building phases, assess weights and stability, and coordinate with Maritime Technology and external partners to meet safety and performance standards, while traveling as required.

Qualifications

• Experience in naval architecture for cruise ships and shipbuilding.
• Strong knowledge of SOLAS, IMO, and classification rules.
• Fluent in English; additional languages are a plus.
• Excellent teamwork and cross-cultural communication.

Responsabilités

• Lead naval architecture tasks for design and build phases.
• Coordinate with Maritime Technology, yards, and external partners.
• Develop feasibility studies and support regulatory work.
• Prepare reports and maintain project documentation.

Connaissances

Excel

MS Word

MS Project

PowerPoint

CAD programs

Analysis software

SOLAS/IMO

English fluency

Teamwork

Willing to travel

Formation

M. Sc. Naval Architect or equal

Outils

CAD programs

Analysis software

Description du poste

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

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

Are you passionate about bringing exceptional cruise ship environments to life? Do you thrive at the intersection of design excellence, shipbuilding, project execution, and operational readiness?

We are seeking a Senior Naval Architect to join our Newbuild team and play a pivotal role in delivering some of the world's most innovative and visually stunning cruise ships. This position offers the opportunity to work alongside leading architects, designers, shipyards, and technical experts to ensure that every guest-facing space exceeds expectations for quality, functionality, sustainability, and brand experience.

Position Summary

The Senior Naval Architect participates to daily ship project naval architectural routines for specified Vessel Classes during their design and building phases. Participation in the concept design process for upcoming new build projects belongs to his/her focus areas too. The Senior Naval Architect works closely with the teams of Maritime Technology and Chief Naval Architect assisting experts with technology development and research in addition to various new build related technical projects such as technical feasibility studies and verification of new technologies.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

Naval Architecture – Design and Building phases

• Acts as an influencer of naval architecture in the ideation phase for Newbuild concepts
• Participates in development of new projects and liaises with the yard and external design and technical design specialists to gather insights on proposed innovative concepts
• Explores multiple aspirational ship platforms and/or design ideas through feasibility phase, considering main boundary conditions such as technical feasibility, buildability, operability, and affordability
• In-house advisor for Newbuild department on statutory regulations and their direct impact on architectural design. This includes fire safety related topics like space categories, structural fire protection and escapes, assembly stations arrangement, general technical issues, etc.
• Manage assessment and development of ship performance impact on architectural design development including weights and stability, hydrodynamics and speed requirements, ship structure in addition to passenger comfort aspects such as wind comfort, noise prevention, vibration and acoustics, and operational efficiency including passenger flow and lift arrangement.
• Builds and maintains collaboration with team, NB Business & Strategy, Maritime Technology, shipyards, naval architects, architects, brand leaders, and other key thinkers.
• Collaborates with our external partners, consultancies, classification societies, flag states and other industry bodies.
• Actively coordinates the different disciplines, by leading the project general arrangement plan development
• Participates to ships Naval Architectural and regulatory work with classification society, Flag administration, USCG, etc
• Brings basic knowledge by self and maintains relationships with knowledge experts in Classification Societies, Flag State and USCG in ideation phase for feasibility feedback
• Applies knowledge of relevant rules and regulations to the design process
• Assesses and advises specifications, measurements and calculations relevant to ship design.
• Studies, compares, assesses and shares statistical information and analyses across various ships and areas bringing forth observations
• Prepares presentations, supporting documents, e.g. simplified drawings, to improve the understanding by others
• Develops and prepares reports and records related to assignments or projects
• Stays current on relevant maritime industry and technical research and projects; seeks information and evaluates new technology with knowledge experts
• Considering the position and role, the employee is required to perform reasonable and temporally any other job-related duties assigned by their supervisor or management

Technology development

• Participates in design criteria selection and developments for new projects
• Participates to risks management process for new technologies qualification and applies internal process how to identify risks properly at early stage of project
• Feasibility studies for different field of technologies as needed.

Key Skills & Experience Required

• Proficiency in Excel, MS Word, MS Project or equivalent, PowerPoint,
• Working knowledge of various computer aided design programs and analysis programs. Good skills to analyze and develop specifications. Drawings, layouts and other technical documentation.
• Understanding of shipbuilding project and programming processes.
• Operational knowledge of SOLAS, IMO, classification rules and marine standards.
• Fluency in English, other languages as advantage.
• Excellent teamwork skills.
• Good skills for communication and co-operation in multicultural working environment.
• Willingness to travel.

Qualifications

M. Sc. Naval Architect or equal with minimum 8 years of experience in the field of naval architecture in cruise shipbuilding industry.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those requirements employees must meet to perform the essential functions of this job with or without reasonable accommodations. While performing job functions the employee is regularly required to sit, and stand, write, review and type reports, compile data, operate a pc, communicate, listen, and assess information. The employee may move about the office complex, may travel to other office locations and may lift, push, pull or move 10-15 pounds. The employee may occasionally required to walk to the dock, ascend and descend the vessel within a construction site environment. This position may regularly travel domestically or internationally. Visual requirements include distant, close and color vision, and ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job. The environment includes work inside/outside the office, travel to other offices, as well as domestic, international, and shipboard travel. A high noise level is possible if visiting shipboard or offsite locations.