Maritime Assistant

Carnival; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Carnival UK as a Maritime Assistant where you will support our maritime operations by managing contractor visits and aiding in the smooth running of our maritime team. This role focuses on administrative tasks within a dynamic environment promoting both learning and personal growth, along with hybrid work opportunities.

Benefits

Employee Discounted Cruising

Recognition scheme with prizes and awards

Extensive learning and development opportunities

Employee Assistance and Wellbeing programmes

Minimum 25 days leave plus bank holiday allowance

Contributory Defined Contribution Pension scheme

Onsite restaurant with healthy meal options

Qualifications

• Experience in a busy high volume office environment.
• Knowledge of data privacy and GDPR legislation.

Responsibilities

• Organise contractor visits to ships using business tools.
• Provide administrative support to the maritime team, including travel arrangements.
• Complete legal and security checks for visitors effectively.

Skills

Attention to detail

Effective written and verbal communication

Ability to work autonomously

Ability to work with ambiguous information

Job description

Set your sights on a future in maritime with a role designed for aspiring professionals. This Maritime Assistant within the Maritime Team here at Carnival UK offers a unique blend of learning, growth, and hands-on experience in the heart of our maritime department. It's your chance to start building a solid foundation in this field.

Role Overview

The Maritime Assistant team is responsible for delivering the necessary support functions to the Maritime team and wider Carnival UK team as required. The scope of the team’s responsibilities includes providing the support required to place contractors and visitors on board our ships during port calls.

Reporting to the Manager, Maritime Services, the Maritime Assistant role plays a vital role in ensuring that contractors can board our ships to complete their work on our ships as required. To do this they must ensure the relevant information about the visit and visitors is completed in both an accurate and efficient way. This includes the completion of the relevant legal and security checks for visitors.

This role is extremely admin focused. The candidate must possess exceptional attention to detail, as well as the ability to meet tight deadlines consistently.

Key accountabilities for Maritime Assistant include:

• Using business tools to organise contractor visits to our ships
• Work with the maritime team to ensure that visits can be undertaken on ships as required
• Providing administrational support to the department, including the arranging of any travel requests
• Participate in ARC meetings to ensure that visits to the ship are well understood and highlight any conflicts

This role is classified as CUK15 and is available on a full-time permanent basis. We offer hybrid work including up to two days from home.

About you: the ideal candidate

You are more than just your CV. You're someone who brings:

• Data privacy and GDPR legislation and best practice
• To have worked in a busy high volume office environment
• Able to work with ambiguous information which changes frequently
• Effective written and verbal communicator
• Able to work autonomously
• Willing to embrace change

In this role, your unique personal attributes will help you stand out. If you have qualities that can drive success in the maritime sector, we want you on our team. Your ability to blend technical skills with interpersonal strengths will lay the foundation for innovation and growth within our department.

We recognise the value in having people with a variety of backgrounds, experience and skills in our business. That means the role requirements here should be seen as a guide, not a checklist.

Why join us?

Carnival UK is about being part of a community that values growth, work-life balance, and wellbeing. We’re a holiday company so we know there’s more to life than work. Our comprehensive range of benefits are designed to help your personal and financial health and wellbeing.

• Employee Discounted Cruising plus Friends and Family offers
• Recognition scheme with prizes and awards
• Regular office events including live entertainment, lifestyle events and charity partner fundraisers
• Extensive learning and development opportunities
• Employee-led networks
• Employee Assistance and Wellbeing programmes
• Company paid Health Cash Plan and health assessment
• In-house Occupational Health help and access to digital GP
• Life Assurance
• Parental and adoption leave
• Employee Shares Plan
• Electric Car and Cycle to Work schemes
• Onsite restaurant offering range of healthy cooked and grab and go meals
• Discounted retail and leisure via discounts portal
• Minimum 25 days leave, bank holiday allowance and holiday trading scheme
• Contributory Defined Contribution Pension scheme
• A friendly welcome with help settling in

Take the next step

Due to the popularity of our roles and our commitment to finding the best talent, we might close applications earlier than advertised. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to become part of a team dedicated to creating unforgettable holiday happiness. Apply today to start your journey with us.

Recruitment Journey

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