Superintendent Piping

Royal Caribbean Group; Saint-Nazaire; Sur place; EUR 90 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Royal Caribbean Group seeks a Superintendent Piping for its New Build team to drive daily shipboard inspections, ensure quality in piping and outfitting, and coordinate with shipyards, classifications, and suppliers.

The role requires leading projects, overseeing FATs and commissioning in France or abroad, and maintaining rigorous documentation while traveling as needed.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a similar mechanical/marine role; 10+ years in hotel maintenance is a plus.
• Strong knowledge of engineering science applications and project execution.

Responsabilités

• Daily inspections onboard, focusing on piping and outfitting in accommodation areas.
• Coordinate with shipyard, site machinery, and suppliers; participate in FAT tests in France or abroad.
• Oversee construction, installation, commissioning, and acceptance of machinery- related equipment.
• Maintain inspection records and contribute to monthly construction status reports.
• Address defects and non-conformities from past projects or guarantees.
• Assist with delivery documents and ship handover protocols.
• Build relationships with shipyard, classification societies, and regulators.
• Implement the project's quality control plan to ensure workmanship and materials meet standards.
• Lead inspections of equipment at supplier premises during the building process.

Connaissances

English proficiency

SOLAS/IMO knowledge

Communication

Project leadership

Willing to travel

Multicultural teamwork

Computer skills

Formation

Mechanical and Marine engineer BSc

Outils

MS Office

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.

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 Superintendent Piping 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.

About The Role

Responsible for day-to-day inspections on board, related to piping and outfitting in accommodation area. This position requires follow up on execution process on board based on approved documentation, contractual specification and classification standards. Close collaboration with the shipyard, site office machinery department and suppliers are included on the daily scope of work. In addition, attendance on factory acceptance tests, in France or abroad is part of tasks and responsibilities. Additional duties are the plan approval process, the monitoring of the progress, follow up on expected milestones and tests/commissioning of various equipment’s at the subject areas.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

Organizes proactive new technology development work with current and potential new makers and systems designers and marine operations.

• Daily inspections and patrolling onboard, evaluating the quality and execution process
• Focused on safety processes on board linked to daily yard activities
• Application of relevant rules and regulations in the development of cruise ship design and building, including evaluation of new materials.
• Cooperation with various disciplines on correct execution based each standard and methods.
• Oversee construction, installation works, commissioning, and acceptance of machinery- related equipment (including Pools , RWF , Hotel equipment, Laundry Systems , Firefighting systems , Hydraulic systems .)
• Maintain accurate records of inspections and commissioning results, contributing to monthly construction status reports.
• Address remarks, defects, and non-conformities identified in past projects or guarantee claims to ensure they are resolved during the inspection and commissioning process.
• Assist with the preparation of delivery documents and protocols for the ships.
• Establish productive relationships with the shipyard, classification societies, and other regulatory bodies to resolve technical issues efficiently.
• Implement and enforce the project's quality control plan to maintain the highest standards of workmanship and material quality.
• Able to participate and lead inspections of equipment’s at supplier premises in France and abroad ( FAT, factory acceptance tests ) during the building process.

Additional responsibilities may be assigned based on the scope of the project.

Qualifications

• Mechanical and Marine engineer BSc degree with 5+ years minimum experience is similar role and/or Hotel Maintenance Manager with 10+ years minimum experience on that role with New Build previous experience.
• Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.

Key Skills & Experience Required

• Excellent written & verbal English, other languages as an advantage.
• In-depth knowledge of SOLAS, IMO and other relevant regulations.
• High level communications skills. Ability proactively to create and maintain strong relationships with suppliers, development partners and with remote based colleagues.
• Independent and self-oriented skills to lead simultaneous projects.
• Able to work in multicultural working environment and willingness to travel.
• Relevant computer skills.

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.