Senior Naval Architect

Journey with us!  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.    Are you passionate about bringing exceptional cruise ship environments to life? Do you thrive at the intersection of design excellence, shipbuilding, project execution, and operational readiness? We are seeking a Senior Naval Architect to join our Newbuild team and play a pivotal role in delivering some of the world's most innovative and visually stunning cruise ships. This position offers the opportunity to work alongside leading architects, designers, shipyards, and technical experts to ensure that every guest-facing space exceeds expectations for quality, functionality, sustainability, and brand experience.   POSITION SUMMARY The Senior Naval Architect participates to daily ship project naval architectural routines for specified Vessel Classes during their design and building phases. Participation in the concept design process for upcoming new build projects belongs to his/her focus areas too. The Senior Naval Architect works closely with the teams of Maritime Technology and Chief Naval Architect assisting experts with technology development and research in addition to various new build related technical projects such as technical feasibility studies and verification of new technologies.   ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES   Naval Architecture – Design and Building phases · Acts as an influencer of naval architecture in the ideation phase for Newbuild concepts · Participates in development of new projects and liaises with the yard and external design and technical design specialists to gather insights on proposed innovative concepts · Explores multiple aspirational ship platforms and/or design ideas through feasibility phase, considering main boundary conditions such as technical feasibility, buildability, operability, and affordability · In-house advisor for Newbuild department on statutory regulations and their direct impact on architectural design. This includes fire safety related topics like space categories, structural fire protection and escapes, assembly stations arrangement, general technical issues, etc. · Manage assessment and development of ship performance impact on architectural design development including weights and stability, hydrodynamics and speed requirements, ship structure in addition to passenger comfort aspects such as wind comfort, noise prevention, vibration and acoustics, and operational efficiency including passenger flow and lift arrangement. · Builds and maintains collaboration with team, NB Business & Strategy, Maritime Technology, shipyards, naval architects, architects, brand leaders, and other key thinkers. · Collaborates with our external partners, consultancies, classification societies, flag states and other industry bodies. · Actively coordinates the different disciplines, by leading the project general arrangement plan development · Participates to ships Naval Architectural and regulatory work with classification society, Flag administration, USCG, etc · Brings basic knowledge by self and maintains relationships with knowledge experts in Classification Societies, Flag State and USCG in ideation phase for feasibility feedback · Applies knowledge of relevant rules and regulations to the design process · Assesses and advises specifications, measurements and calculations relevant to ship design. · Studies, compares, assesses and shares statistical information and analyses across various ships and areas bringing forth observations · Prepares presentations, supporting documents, e.g. simplified drawings, to improve the understanding by others · Develops and prepares reports and records related to assignments or projects