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Project Planner in Miami, FL at Royal Caribbean

Date Posted: 12/10/2019

Job Snapshot

Job Description

Position Summary

Participate actively on project team, in coordination with the Project Manager, to manage all aspects of project planning, status reporting, administrative and logistical tasks.  Oversee completion and submission of all operations and monitoring manuals as well as engineering drawings for approval and to vendors for budgeting and scheduling.  Complete all cabin, travel, and logistical requests.  Monitor financial activities and ensure accurate tracking of all expenditures.  Oversee vendor and team member project deadlines. Provides input on project planning methods and tool usage in order to continuously improve best practices and standardized methodologies to be used by the management team.  Ensure adherence to standards to enable consistent executive reporting across Projects. 

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

  • Coordinates with project team and Project Manager in order to maintain project plan.
  • Keeps reporting data related to sub-projects and tasks up to date
  • Generates pre-built reports for distribution
  • Conducts initial analysis to determine that all proposed components meet all technical specs, regulatory standards and overall system requirements.  
  • Builds, plans and coordinate multiple projects simultaneously.
  • Utilizes electronic project, document management and costing tools
  • Identifies, analyzes and responds to project risks, and take reasonable risks as appropriate.
  • Submits RFPs and organize quotes to provide accurate estimates of all system and subsystem life cycle costs. 
  • Communicates project plan status on a regular basis to project team and project stakeholders. Establishing goals and analyzing project work process.
  • Proactively interfaces with multiple project plan owners from other business units and construction contractor planning departments
  • Coordinates with the Project and CAR Managers to determine financial and administrative progress.
  • Reviews recommendations based on best practices related to execution methodology, planning & estimation strategies, and reporting that may be beneficial to project. 
  • Performs project audits against standardized methodologies

Financial Responsibilities

  • Track all CAR account expenditures to ensure purchases are compliant with accounting policies and costs do not exceed budget.   Forecast budget adherence is $4.4 million

Job Requirements

Qualifications

  • Bachelor degree with a concentration in Mechanical or Marine Engineering,
  • Naval Architecture, Project Management or related field, or equivalent experience. 
  • International manufacturing experience preferred. 
  • Advanced degree(s) and/or PMP certification considered a plus.

Knowledge and Skills

  • Five plus years of experience in managing projects with multiple teams involving internal and external resources. 
  • Must possess a general familiarity and knowledge of mechanical or marine engineering concepts. 
  • Must be comfortable interacting with highly technical teams, including vendors. 
  • Three to five  years project planning and best practice development following a standardized project lifecycle process. 
  • Experience managing full project lifecycles in some of the following: ship construction, building construction, manufacturing, plant repair/maintenance, technical project procurement, inventory and production control. 
  • Experience with standard project planning and management tools (NIKU/MS Project workbench preferred). 
  • Solid written and verbal communication skills. 
  • Must communicate at all levels of the organization.
  • Excellent organizational and presentation skills. 
  • Detail oriented with excellent analytical and spreadsheet modeling skills. 
  • Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment. 
  • Experience in managing projects with multiple teams involving internal and external resources. 

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, climb stairs, talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, and color vision.

Work Environment

The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet, however occasional visits and inspections on ships will be required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  The position is located in the Port of Miami office. Must be willing to travel as required by project (probably 5-20%)

 

It is the policy of the Company to ensure equal employment and promotion opportunity to qualified candidates without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, sexuality, gender identity or expression, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law. RCL and each of its subsidiaries prohibit and will not tolerate discrimination or harassment.