Fleet Shipboard L&D Operations Manager

CARNIVAL CRUISE LINES; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Carnival Cruise Lines is seeking a Manager, Shipboard L&D Operations to design and implement fleet-wide learning and development processes that ensure consistent, effective execution across ships. This role partners with Fleet L&D Managers, shipboard HR teams, shoreside staff, and stakeholders to drive disciplined implementation across the fleet.

The position focuses on operational input for L&D tactics, ensuring enterprise priorities are executable and sustainable in shipboard environments,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant shipboard operational experience.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for the operational readiness and quality of shipboard L&D activities, ensuring training delivery and supporting practices meet expected performance standards across the fleet.
• Ensures the quality and integrity of approved STCW training delivered by shipboard L&D Managers, protecting the organization’s ability to certify crew through onboard Learning Resource Centers (LRCs).
• Reviews and provides input on design updates or enhancements to L&D-owned STCW courses, ensuring changes are executable and consistently applied in shipboard delivery.
• Partners with Training Governance to ensure approved requirements are clearly understood and consistently applied in shipboard training execution, maintaining delivery quality required to protect ongoing approval status
• Supports audit readiness and operational follow-through for shipboard L&D activities by coordinating responses to findings and ensuring corrective actions are implemented and sustained.
• Partners with shipboard HRDs and Fleet HRDs to support alignment on expectations, findings, and follow-through at the ship level.
• Maintains continuity of L&D execution during periods of inspection, operational change, or disruption.

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

Carnival Cruise Lines is seeking a Manager, Shipboard L&D Operations to design and implement fleet-wide learning and development processes that ensure consistent, effective execution across ships. This role partners with Fleet L&D Managers, shipboard HR teams, shoreside staff, and stakeholders to drive disciplined implementation across the fleet.

The position focuses on operational input for L&D tactics, ensuring enterprise priorities are executable and sustainable in shipboard environments,