Manager, Dry Dock Planning

One of the best-known names in cruising, Princess is the world’s leading international premium cruise line and tour company, carrying millions of guests each year to hundreds of destinations around the globe. We give our guests the Medallion Class experience others simply can’t. The Love Boat promises something for everyone.

The Manager Dry Dock planning & support is responsible for independently leading and executing the Dry Dock Planning process for assigned vessels through cross-functional coordination, planning, communication, and execution readiness activities. The role serves as the primary point of accountability for dry dock planning and is expected to proactively drive timelines, identify risks, resolve conflicts, and ensure deliverables are completed within established milestones. The position requires facilitating and leading large, multidisciplinary planning meetings involving 30+ attendees from shipboard and shoreside departments, external partners, contractors, and leadership teams. Success in this role depends on the ability to communicate clearly and effectively with audiences of varying technical and operational backgrounds, maintain alignment among stakeholders, and drive decisions and accountability. The Manager, Dry Dock Planning must be capable of working independently with limited supervision, managing multiple dry dock projects simultaneously, and communicate effectively with all stakeholders to ensure all planning activities, documentation, risks, and stakeholder requirements are captured and executed according to approved timelines and company procedures.

Here’s a summary of what Princess is looking for in a Manager, Dry Dock Planning & Support. Is this you?

Responsibilities:

• Dry Dock Planning & Coordination: Lead the planning process for assigned dry docks, ensuring milestones, deliverables, budgets, and schedules are tracked and completed on time; following up with Superintendents, Project Managers, and stakeholders to ensure project scope information, technical specifications, budgets, schedules, and supporting documentation are entered into the dry dock management system within the required timelines.

• Coordinate planning activities associated with dry dock operations, including: loading and logistics operations, berthing arrangements, turnaround day activities and operational readiness planning.

• Ensures planning deliverables are complete, accurate, and aligned with established planning procedures.

• Support the Senior Manager, Dry Dock Planning with administration, development, and continuous improvement of dry dock planning systems and processes. Provide recommendations to improve reporting, planning efficiency, stakeholder visibility, and data quality.

• Work closely with Project Managers, Superintendents, shipboard teams, and stakeholders to develop: interference plans, outage management plans, resource conflict mitigation plans, operational readiness plans, prepare and maintain project schedules and Gantt charts to identify conflicts, critical path activities and develop mitigation strategies. Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders in the development and maintenance of the Dry Dock General Risk Assessment. Support identification of risks and mitigation strategies throughout the planning lifecycle.