Maritime Assistant

Job Description

Set your sights on a future in maritime with a role designed for aspiring professionals. This Maritime Assistant within the Maritime Team here at Carnival UK offers a unique blend of learning, growth, and hands-on experience in the heart of our maritime department. It's your chance to start building a solid foundation in this field.

 

Role Overview

The Maritime Assistant team is responsible for delivering the necessary support functions to the Maritime team and wider Carnival UK team as required. The scope of the teams responsibilities includes providing the support required to place contractors and visitors on board our ships during port calls.

Reporting to the Manager, Maritime Services, the Maritime Assistant role plays a vital role in ensuring that contractors can board our ships to complete their work on our ships as required. To do this they must ensure the relevant information about the visit and visitors is completed in both an accurate and efficient way. This includes the completion of the relevant legal and security checks for visitors.

 

This role is extremely admin focused. The candidate must possess exceptional attention to detail, as well as the ability to meet tight deadlines consistently.

 

Key accountabilities for Maritime Assistant include:

Using business tools to organise contractor visits to our ships Work with the maritime team to ensure that visits can be undertaken on ships as required Providing administrational support to the department, including the arranging of any travel requests  Participate in ARC meetings to ensure that visits to the ship are well understood and highlight any conflicts

This role is classified as CUK15 and is available on a full-time permanent basis. We offer hybrid work including up to two days from home.

 

About you: the ideal candidate

You are more than just your CV. You're someone who brings:

Data privacy and GDPR legislation and best practice To have worked in a busy high volume office environment Able to work with ambiguous information which changes frequently Effective written and verbal communicator Able to work autonomously Willing to embrace change

In this role, your unique personal attributes will help you stand out. If you have qualities that can drive success in the maritime sector, we want you on our team. Your ability to blend technical skills with interpersonal strengths will lay the foundation for innovation and growth within our department.

We recognise the value in having people with a variety of backgrounds, experience and skills in our business. That means the role requirements here should be seen as a guide, not a checklist. 

 

 

Why join us?

Carnival UK is about being part of a community that values growth, work-life balance, and wellbeing. Were a holiday company so we know theres more to life than work. Our comprehensive range of benefits are designed to help your personal and financial health and wellbeing.

Employee Discounted Cruising plus Friends and Family offers Recognition scheme with prizes and awards Regular office events including live entertainment, lifestyle events and charity partner fundraisers Extensive learning and development opportunities Employee-led networks Employee Assistance and Wellbeing programmes Company paid Health Cash Plan and health assessment In-house Occupational Health help and access to digital GP Life Assurance Parental and adoption leave Employee Shares Plan Electric Car and Cycle to Work schemes Onsite restaurant offering range of healthy cooked and grab and go meals Discounted retail and leisure via discounts portal Minimum 25 days leave, bank holiday allowance and holiday trading scheme Contributory Defined Contribution Pension scheme A friendly welcome with help settling in

 

Take the next step

Due to the popularity of our roles and our commitment to finding the best talent, we might close applications earlier than advertised. Dont miss out on this opportunity to become part of a team dedicated to creating unforgettable holiday happiness. Apply today to start your journey with us.

Recruitment Journey

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About Us

Holidays are one of lifes greatest pleasures. Having the chance to relax, escape and explore is a magical thing. And there is no better holiday than a cruise.No one knows cruising like Carnival UK, where talented people from across the globe come together to create unforgettable holiday happiness. As part of the worlds largest holiday travel and leisure company, we take enormous pride in bringing to life two of the most iconic brands from Britains rich seafaring heritage, P&O Cruises and Cunard. Collectively they have been delivering unbridled joy, boundless adventure and lifelong memories to millions of people for over 350 years. And in a multi-million pound global holiday market, where cruising has barely scratched the surface, we have the opportunity to do that for many, many more people.Our diverse yet tight knit teams share high standards, heartfelt values and passion for our purpose. Our Culture Essentials describe the expectations we have for ourselves and of each other, in building a culture that supports safe, sustainable, compliant operations and celebrates diversity, equity and inclusion.Its through the successful delivery of these extraordinary travel experiences for our target markets and our distinctive culture, that we hope to become Travels Employer of Choice.