Lead, Maritime Safety and Standards

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Lead, Maritime Safety and Standards

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Combine your career goals and sense of adventure by joining our New Build Operations team. 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.
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Position Summary

The Safety Senior Superintendent, Newbuild role supports the project team in implementing and maintaining health, safety, and environmental standards on shipbuilding projects. This position focuses on executing safety protocols, conducting inspections, and collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to ensure a proactive safety culture. This role requires some travel to shipyards and project sites to monitor safety compliance and support continuous improvement.

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Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Assist in implementing safety processes and standards on newbuild site.
• Spend time walking onboard the vessels as they are under construction, to understand safety situation in various projects.
• Collaboration with all yards related to safety processes development and implementation. Joint processes monitoring and reporting various phases of the projects.
• Supporting internal safety training for our Newbuild team and monitor training needs & requirements
• Conduct regular safety inspections and audits at shipyards and onboard vessels under construction.
• Ensuring safety related mitigative actions are taking place and are followed as agreed between various parties.
• Verification and implementation safety processes supported by project Managements, site office teams and as far as possible with internal and external stakeholders.
• Support accident/fire/flooding investigations and contribute to root cause analyses.
• Facilitate safety related relationships with key partners and stakeholders
• Maintain and periodically review risk & safety management systems and tools
• Participate in meetings with others in project management team
• Conduct on-site workplace inspections to identify workplace hazards
• Collaborate with shipyard personnel, suppliers, and internal teams to ensure safety measures are followed.
• Monitor safety KPIs and report findings to the Safety Manager and to the project team leaders.
• Maintains good relations with shipyard counterparts.
• Participate in safety training sessions and help identify improvements.
• Maintain documentation and records of safety activities and incidents.
• Promote a proactive safety culture by encouraging open communication and reporting of hazards. Support coordinating safety topics in various projects, jointly with the project management teams and Site office Leads.
• Support development and implementation of quality, risk and safety standards/ guidelines internally and externally withing collaboration of defined key partners.
• Assist in developing and updating emergency response plans.
• Stay informed on industry safety trends and innovations.
• Support the Safety Manager in preparing reports and presentations for project and design management.
• Drive safety awareness by presenting safety reports, leading safety moments, and working closely with local teams to embed a positive and proactive safety culture.
• Participate in official internal and external safety audits as support, as defined by her/his job description.
• Close collaboration with Contractors and suppliers to ensure safety aspects are followed and mitigated actions implemented
• Support and align processes and way of working with local delivery teams and counterparts
• Close collaboration with classification societies on safety-related matters
• Collect, analyze, and share statistical safety and operational data across vessels and functional areas, providing insights and observations to support continuous improvement and informed decision-making.
• 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.

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