Job Description

Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, and Seabourn offer world-renown vacations at sea to travelers around the globe. This is an opportunity to join a dynamic, unified organization as part of their highly experienced team in our corporate office.

The Project Manager for Hotel Refurbishment is responsible for managing fleet technical hotel projects across the Holland America Line, HAL, SBN, and PCL brands. This role involves developing and planning multiple hotel projects, tracking timelines, and ensuring goals and targets are met. The Project Manager ensures that projects are engineered to comply with international maritime and ADA regulations and are completed on time and within budget. The ideal candidate will have experience in managing large-scale projects and possess knowledge of shipboard operations. This position requires collaboration with company operations departments, shipboard senior management, and contractors to ensure successful project completion within the approved financial plan and agreed timescales. A key part of this role is strategically leading and collaborating to ensure successful project completion while maintaining budgetary responsibility and compliance.

Here’s a summary of what Holland America Line is looking for in its Project Manager, Hotel Refurbishment. Is this you?

Responsibilities
The Project Manager is responsible for ensuring that all hotel refurbishment projects are developed in full compliance with applicable regulatory requirements, including ADA standards and IMO frameworks such as SOLAS, MARPOL, MLC and related codes. The role supports the design process by reviewing, engineering, and validating proposals to ensure they meet all required standards, with an understanding of each proposal’s system-level and vessel-wide impacts. The Project Manager contributes to the engineering development of refurbishment projects, including system design related to structural modifications, piping, passive fire protection, means of escape, lifesaving and evacuation arrangements, and weight and stability analysis. Once a project is vetted and awarded, the Project Manager works closely with selected vendors throughout the project lifecycle to ensure continued adherence to all regulatory requirements during both planning and execution. The Project Manager is accountable for planning and executing multiple hotel refurbishment projects across the HAL, SBN, and PCL brands. This includes tracking timelines, ensuring goals and targets are met, and managing projects to completion within the approved financial plan. The role requires compliance with ADA and ship regulations. The Project Manager must ensure that all projects are completed on time and within budget. This project manager must execute both short and long-term projects, with the focus on overall company and team priorities for alignment and strategic success.

This will include, but not limited to:

- Perform monitoring activities and communicate with Flag/Class during project install’s to ensure that ships comply with international regulations and standards for SOLAS.
- New Project Designs ensure that the hull and superstructure are according to specifications and test data, in conformity with standards of safety.
- New Projects conduct analyses of ships, such as stability, structural, weight.
- Maintain contact with, and formulate reports for, contractors and clients to ensure completion of work within budget

Collaboration and Execution
This role requires extensive collaboration with company operations departments, shipboard senior management, and contractors. The Project Manager must lead and play a strategic role with various stakeholders to ensure seamless project integration and execution. Effective communication and teamwork are essential to align all parties with the project's objectives. The Project Manager is responsible for maintaining strong working relationships to facilitate project success.

Financial Management
The Project Manager is responsible for managing the financial aspects of hotel refurbishment projects. This includes maintaining financial targets, collaborating with the Supply Chain to review and refine processes, and identifying cost-saving opportunities. The role involves ensuring that projects are completed within the approved financial plan. Regular financial updates and reports must be provided to senior management.

Quality Assurance and Compliance
Ensuring quality adherence and compliance with regulatory requirements is a key accountability area. The Project Manager must perform onsite inspections at dry docks to verify the quality of work completed. They are responsible for ensuring that all projects comply with maritime legislation, flag, and classification requirements. All project documentation must be updated and archived appropriately.

Leadership and Vendor Management
Although the Project Manager does not have direct reports, they must lead and manage vendors and shipboard teams effectively. This role requires strong leadership skills to influence and coordinate cross-functional teams. The Project Manager must implement and execute plans for project and equipment procurement in collaboration with logistics and contractors. They are responsible for establishing an efficient and cost-effective shipping program.

Requirements

• 5 years ship operations and project management
• Cruise ship, naval or offshore industry experience
• Marine Engineer, Marine Electro-technical, Marine Technology, Marine / Engineering or Electrical Degree & or Class 1 qualifications
• Strong interpersonal skills and relationship building.
• Strong project management, communication, coordination capabilities.
• Strong commercial understanding of complex project cost analysis.
• Must be capable of multi-tasking and working under pressure to maintain agreed project and logistics deadlines.
• Proficient in the use of computer business applications and project planning/management tools.
• Knowledge of current/impending marine regulations, legislation, USPH standards.
• Marine equipment and systems technical knowledge & evaluation.
• PMP Certified a plus.

• As an in-office role, this position requires employees to work in-office Monday through Thursday each week. Employees may work from their homes on Fridays

What You Can Expect

• Cruise and Travel Privileges for You and Your Family
• Health Benefits
• 401(k)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Training & Professional Development
• Tuition & Professional Certification Reimbursement

• Base Salary Range: $83,200 to $112,300.00. The range is applicable for the labor market where the role is intended to be hired. Final base salary is directly related to each candidates' qualifications and experience uniquely.

Our Culture…Stronger Together

Our highest responsibility and top priority is compliance, environmental protection and the health, safety and well-being of our guests, the people in the communities we touch and serve, and our shipboard and shoreside employees. Please visit our site to learn more about our Culture Essentials, Corporate Vision Statement and our Core Values at:https://www.hollandamerica.com/en_US/our-company/mission-values.html

Holland America is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Holland America will provide reasonable accommodations with the application process, upon your request, as required to comply with applicable laws. If you have a disability and require assistance in this application process, please contact recruiting@hollandamericagroup.com

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