Senior Manager Dry Dock Interiors

The Walt Disney Company; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 25 days

Private medical + dental care

Free park entry

Disney discounts

Excellent parental leave

Employee resource groups

Job summary

The Walt Disney Company in London is seeking a Senior Manager of Dry Docks to lead planning and execution of interior dry-dock work for the fleet, with four days in the office and one remote day. You will oversee the planning, budgeting, and coordination of all interior enhancement activities across dry and wet dockings, while ensuring alignment with Disney Imagineering and finance.

The role requires strong leadership, extensive maritime and dry-dock experience, and the ability to manage

Qualifications

• Extensive maritime industry experience.
• Significant dry-docking cruise vessel experience.
• Senior leadership and cross-functional team influence.
• Strong verbal, written, and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Dry Dock Interiors team, ensuring collaboration, delivery, and performance.
• Plan, execute, and specify interior enhancement and sustainment work during dry and wet dockings.
• Provide regular UK MD updates on progress, milestones, budget, and scheduling.
• Collaborate with Marine and Technical Operations to meet department needs and expectations.
• Coordinate with Walt Disney Imagineering to verify scopes, budgets, and resources.
• Attend vessels to conduct onboard surveys and plan major project rollouts.
• Align dry dock accounting with Disney Cruise Line Finance for consistency.
• Ensure maintenance systems incorporate dry dock information for reporting.
• Standardize dry dock interior processes, procedures, and specifications across teams.
• Oversee vendor bidding in line with procurement controls.

Skills

Maritime industry

Dry docking experience

Senior leadership

Verbal & written communication

Job description

About The Role & Team

Reporting to the UK Managing Director, the Senior Manager of Dry Docks is responsible for the planning and execution of the dry dock scope of work for fleet’s interiors, during dry and wet docking of the companies’ vessels. You’ll join a team grounded in our Disney values — acting with Integrity, welcoming everyone through Inclusion, embracing boundless Creativity, working together through Collaboration and caring deeply for our Community. These values shape how we work and how we support one another every day. This is a permanent role and will be based in our London Hammersmith office, 4 days a week, with either a Monday or Friday working from home. You will also be required for occasional international travel.

What You Will Do

• Lead and develop the Dry Dock Interiors team, ensuring effective collaboration, delivery, and performance.


• Oversee the planning, execution, and specification development for all interior enhancement and sustainment work during dry and wet dockings across the fleet.


• Provide regular updates to the UK Managing Director on Dry Dock project progress, highlighting key milestones, budget status, scheduling, and delivery challenges.


• Work closely with the operational Marine and Technical Operations organization, to meet the out of service needs and expectations of the Marine, Technical, Hotel & Entertainment departments.


• Cooperate with Walt Disney Imagineering, verifying enhancement scopes are fully supported and resourced, and design budgets are prepared, and costs suitably controlled.


• Attend vessels regularly throughout the year to carry out onboard surveys as required and in preparation and planning for the roll out of the major projects and dry dock works.


• Responsible for aligning dry dock accounting processes with those of Disney Cruise Line Finance Department, to verify commonality between accounting processes.


• Responsible for verifying maintenance systems are updated with relevant dry dock information, including budgetary information for financial reports.


• Lead the standardization of dry dock interiors processes, procedures, and specifications across teams.


• Oversee vendor bidding activities, ensuring compliance with procurement processes and documentation requirements.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Extensive experience in the Maritime industry


• Significant previous experience managing elements of dry docking cruise vessels.


• Senior leadership experience leading a team and influencing functional specialists and cross-functional teams. Including defining priorities, clear roles and responsibilities and guiding technical team members at different stages of their individual projects.


• Demonstrated strong verbal, written, presentation and public speaking skills.

The Perks

• 25 days annual leave


• Private medical insurance & dental care


• Free Park Entry: You will have the opportunity to enter any of our parks with your family and friends for free


• Disney Discounts: you are entitled to discounts on designated Disney products, resort F&B and ticketing


• Excellent parental and guardian leave


• Employee Resource Groups – WOMEN @ Disney, Disney DIVERSITY, Disney PRIDE, our new disability & neurodiversity focused group - ENABLED, and our Mental Health & Wellbeing Group, TRUST.

The Walt Disney Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to be a diverse workforce that is representative of our audiences, and where all can thrive and belong. Disney is committed to forming a team that includes and respects a variety of voices, identities, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.