Sr. Scheduler, Marine

Royal Caribbean International; Weybridge; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company in the cruise industry as a Sr. Analyst in Workforce Planning. In this full-time role based in Weybridge, you'll be responsible for scheduling crew assignments and implementing optimized workforce solutions while ensuring compliance with regulations. Ideal candidates will have strong communication and analytical skills.

Qualifications

• Experience in workforce scheduling, planning, and recruiting.
• Knowledge of automated human resources systems preferred.
• Ability to communicate tactfully and effectively.

Responsibilities

• Schedules crew assignments and rotation planning.
• Ensures compliance with operational guidelines.
• Provides accurate employee data for HR systems.

Skills

Communication

Business Analytics

Problem Solving

Logistics

Education

Statistics

Economics

Business

Job description

Journey with us!

Combine your career goals and sense of adventure by joining our exciting team of employees. 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.

The Royal Caribbean Group’s (Marine Operations) Team has an exciting career opportunity for a full-time Sr. Analyst Workforce Planning (Marine) reporting to the Director of Marine Operations.

Position is onsite and based in our Weybridge office in the UK.

Position Summary:

Carries out workforce planning and logistics for specialized one-to-one crew within Marine Operations. Follows operational guidelines and directives from Marine Operations and department leadership.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Schedules prioritized crew assignments and rotation planning for the Marine department.

• Provides information supporting an effective par level planning process and related procedures.

• Design and implement optimized solutions for fleet needs pertaining to the Marine cost center.

• Ensures effective communication with Marine operations, department leadership, fellow team members, and crew members in areas related to scheduling, succession planning, recruitment, and logistics as appropriate.

• Complies with applicable rules and regulations including but not limited to SQM, flag state and port state legislation, collective bargaining agreements and company policies in all aspects relating to workforce planning.

• Provides complete and accurate employee data in the Human Resources system for assigned departments and/or positions including performance data for succession planning.

• Performs related duties as assigned. Performs other duties as required.

• This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Employees will be required to perform any other job-related duties assigned by their supervisor or management.

Qualifications,Knowledge and Skills:

• Experience in one or more of the following functions: workforce scheduling, planning, recruiting, and shipboard crew administration.

• Knowledge and experience in business analytics preferred.

• Knowledge of automated human resources systems preferred.

• Good communication skills, reads, writes, and speaks English and has interpretative skills for oral and written instructions.

• Must be able to travel internationally and domestically.

• Knowledge of automated human resources and workforce planning systems.

• Statistics, Economics, or Business education from a credited college, university, or the international equivalent is preferred.

• Previous professional experience in one or more of the following functions: workforce planning, analytics, par level planning, scheduling, and logistics services.

• Determine the necessary sequence of activities and the efficient level of resources required to achieve long-term goals.

• Proven track record for being able to apply optimization techniques in one or more domains such as inventory optimization and crew planning.

• Evaluate a problematic situation and create a resolution based on planning and reasoning. Use logic, judgment, and data to drive decisions.

• Visualizes, articulates, and solves both complex and uncomplicated problems and concepts and makes decisions that make sense based on all available information.

• Quickly learn and apply knowledge, skills, and judgment by assessing and translating information technology into responsive and effective planning solutions.

• Excellent communication skills, can translate data to suggest practical solutions or process improvement.

• Ability to communicate tactfully, verbally and in writing, to gather and relay information in a multinational environment consisting of department heads, managers, coworkers, and shipboard employees.

• Ability to read and write English in order to understand and interpret written procedures. This includes the ability to give and receive instructions in written and verbal forms and to effectively present information and respond to questions from management, co-workers, and shipboard employees.

• Working knowledge of general shipboard functions on a cruise ship, and the general concept of the shipboard organization. Working knowledge of applicable immigration and visa requirements related to seafarers in various geographical areas.

• Working knowledge of applicable flag state and port state regulations related to seafarers training, licenses and certifications as needed.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle or feel, reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, and sit. This job's specific vision abilities include close, distance, color, and peripheral vision. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

• The physical demands described here represent those requirements employees must meet to perform the essential functions of this job with or without reasonable accommodations. The employee communicates, listens, compares variables, and assesses information.

The work environment characteristics described here represent those an employee encounters while performing the job's essential functions with or without reasonable accommodations. The environment includes office location and moving inside/outside the office. A high noise level is possible if visiting shipboard or offsite locations.

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