Sr. Manager, Standards & Guidelines

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POSITION SUMMARY:

Our company is a team of creative individuals passionate about designing and bringing to life extraordinary vacations. We are on a mission to revolutionize the cruising industry by creating and building the most innovative cruise ships and reimagining our award-winning fleets, while constantly striving to challenge the status quo and deliver unmatched guest experiences.

As the Sr. Manager, Standards and Guidelines, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our fleet by leading the development, implementation, and management of comprehensive architectural standards closely tight to technical, naval and operational standards. These standards and guidelines will drive consistency, enhance quality, and reinforce our brand identity across all Newbuild and fleet modernization projects. Leveraging advanced technologies, such as Building Information Modelling (BIM) and cloud-based platforms for real-time sharing and communication, you will establish processes for tracking, measurement and collaboration, ensuring seamless integration of standards and guidelines by internal teams and external architects and consultants. Your leadership will guide the adoption of standardized practices, enforce quality control mechanisms, and ensure compliance with safety and regulatory requirements, positioning our company as a leader in design innovation and operational excellence.

If you are a detail-oriented professional with a proven ability to optimize processes, manage cross-functional collaborations, and deliver exceptional design outcomes, we want to hear from you.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Directs, develops, and maintains standards and guidelines to enhance efficiency in entire overall design process for all assigned projects, forming and maintaining brand specific design concepts.

• Creates standard and guidelines strategies that support the organization's mission and value based on an internal and external needs assessment.

• Embraces the value of the design guidelines & standards, CADD & drawing standards, and supports implementation to enhance the content of design drawings and specifications.

• Ensure detailing consistency and apply expert knowledge of commonly used architectural concepts, practices, codes and procedures within the industry.

• Leads the development, maintenance, and implement of Quality Assurance standards to improve quality and timely delivery of projects.

• Compiles, manages, and maintains Quality Control documents for use during the project and for archiving upon completion of the project.

• Supports project team by flagging design and technical inconsistencies and deviations from standards across multiple phases of the design process.

• Leads the development of evolution of standards and guidelines toward long-term goals.

• Develops and shares best practices effectively between external architectural, interior design and consultancy firms, guiding the design they provide.

• Proactively researches new methodology and proposes ideas for more effective execution of projects.

• Ensures that brand concepts are apparent and credible and fulfill the voice of the Corporation and each Brand, which continues our culture of design innovation.

• Leads presentations and project reports as updates for Executive review.

• 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.

• Bachelor's degree in architecture, naval architecture or related field required. Cruise industry experience strong preference.

• Experience in preparation of QA & QC, schedules, and cost analysis 10+ years.

• Experience managing external architectural and/or design consultants 10- 15 years.

• Minimum of 8 years managing multi-million-dollar projects and managing high- performing teams.

• Proficiency in BIM, Revit, AutoCAD software 7 -10 years

• Ability to introduce efficiencies and modern techniques to existing processes.

• Strong analytical skills, highly organized and detail oriented, strong problem solving and decision-making skills.

• Articulate design issues in written and verbal communications, sketches/drawings, etc.

• Ability to translate stated design principles / objectives into unique and varied solutions.

• Knowledge of architectural detailing, material assembly, construction process, project sequencing, specifications, etc. for construction document QA/production and construction administration.

• Excellent interpersonal skills with strong ability to effectively communicate with all levels of management and employees, across diverse cultures around the world.

• Demonstrate a high level of interpretation and communication skills to convey aesthetic concepts and requirements of the design group to technical and non-technical representation.

• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.

• Ability to effectively present info and respond to questions from group leaders & executives.

• Ability to drive and implement new programs

• Capable of working on multiple projects, with team members at various levels

• Must be able to work in the metric system.

• While performing job functions the employee is regularly required to sit, and stand, write, review and type reports, compile data, operate a pc, communicate, listen, and assess information.

• The employee may move about the office complex, may travel to other office locations.

• Visual requirements include distant, close and color vision, and ability to adjust focus.

• The candidate must be comfortable working with many internal and external partners and comfortable in asking for information and following up till the required data is received from a variety of internal departments and external vendors.

• Must be results oriented and be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily with little to no guidance while highly motivated to excel.