Maritime Safety Learning Lead

Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

AXA Health medical

Life Assurance

Enhanced maternity & paternity pay

Discounted holidays & cruises

Retail discounts

Boost Benefits cash back

Job summary

Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines is seeking a Safety Learning Lead at our Ipswich Head Office. You will strengthen learning from incidents, audits, and observations, ensuring investigations are thorough and lessons embedded into practice across the fleet.

The role focuses on SMS effectiveness, risk trends and human factors expertise to support a safe, learning-focused culture. The ideal candidate has senior maritime operational safety or compliance experience, strong ISM knowledge, and the ability to

Qualifications

• Senior maritime operational, safety or compliance management experience.
• Experience leading or supporting complex incident investigations.
• Experience developing and implementing organisational learning initiatives.
• Experience analysing safety performance data and identifying improvement opportunities.
• Strong knowledge of ISM Code and Safety Management Systems.
• Knowledge of human factors and Human & Organisational Performance (HOP) principles.
• Root cause analysis and investigation methodologies.
• Strong analytical and report-writing skills.
• Ability to travel internationally on a monthly basis.
• Willingness to participate in emergency response arrangements.

Responsibilities

• Lead or support investigations into marine, occupational safety, environmental, and security incidents.
• Review investigation reports for quality and effectiveness.
• Apply root cause, human factors and HOP principles.
• Facilitate learning reviews and post-incident workshops.
• Monitor corrective/preventive actions and their effectiveness.
• Develop and maintain the safety learning framework.
• Identify trends from incidents, audits, and observations.
• Lead safety communications and learning summaries.
• Coordinate emergency exercises onboard and ashore.
• Support the Designated Person Ashore in SMS effectiveness.
• Oversee publication and archiving of safety documentation.

Skills

Senior maritime operational safety or

Incident investigations

Organisational learning

Safety performance data analysis

ISM Code & SMS knowledge

Human factors / HOP

Root cause analysis

Analytical & report writing

International travel

Presentation & facilitation

Job description

Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines is seeking a Safety Learning Lead at our Ipswich Head Office. You will strengthen learning from incidents, audits, and observations, ensuring investigations are thorough and lessons embedded into practice across the fleet.

The role focuses on SMS effectiveness, risk trends and human factors expertise to support a safe, learning-focused culture. The ideal candidate has senior maritime operational safety or compliance experience, strong ISM knowledge, and the ability to