Director, Fleet Energy Optimization

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The Royal Caribbean Group’s Royal Caribbean International brand has an exciting career opportunity for a Director, Fleet Energy Optimization.

 

This position will work on-site in Miami, Florida.

 

Position Summary:

 

Royal Caribbean Group (NYSE: RCL) is one of the leading cruise companies in the world with a global fleet of 66 ships traveling to approximately 1,000 destinations around the world. Royal Caribbean Group is the owner and operator of three award winning cruise brands: Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, and Silversea Cruises and it is also a 50% owner of a joint venture that operates TUI Cruises and Hapag-Lloyd Cruises. Together, the brands have an additional 10 ships on order as of September 30, 2022.

 

Energy Management is part of the Global Fleet Optimization department under the Global Marine Operations group supporting and managing the fleet of 64 ships to operate most efficiently and safely.

 

Director, Fleet Energy Management works in a dynamic work environment requiring both knowledge of Marine Technical & Nautical Operations and Energy Efficiency Optimization. This position will contribute to Royal Caribbean’s success by continuously improving the fleet energy consumption, thus reducing emissions. The position is also responsible to have an oversight of the fuel consumption forecast and expense, voyage and vessel operational efficiency improvement, planning and managing medium- to long-term strategy on energy savings retrofits, and Hull Performance.

 

The role further entails leveraging on data science and analytics and digitalization initiatives to enhance energy efficiency and reduce Group’s direct operational cost and Scope-1 GHG emissions to achieve both Corporate and Regulatory decarbonization targets.

 

This position is a rare opportunity if you are looking for a job where you get to play an important and a transformative role in this decade of action towards a greener transition.

 

The person in this role will report to the AVP, Global Fleet Optimization, and will have 4 direct reports (Managers) and 7 in-direct reports and growing, members of the talented Energy team.

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

 

• Evaluate, Plan, Manage, and Validate energy saving technology retrofits, in coordination with both the internal and external stakeholders.

 

• Establish standardized operational practices and metrics to monitor, benchmark, follow-up, and regularly report on fleet energy efficiency performance to both ship-shore personnel, also compile Sustainability Reports and Board Material.

 

• Work with cross-functional teams and leadership to set ambitious and measurable energy efficiency targets (KPIs) to reduce RCG’s operational expense and carbon footprint.

 

• Own the Energy Advisory tools, dashboards, and other digital online platforms both onboard and at shore, including further development of those tools to meet the growing needs w.r.t regulatory compliance, feedback from stakeholders etc., also including managing the service level and other commercial agreements for same.

 

• Prime mover in leading various pursuits w.r.t the Corporate Fleet Energy Efficiency, Carbon Emissions reduction Analysis and Reporting. Maintains a continuous liaison with both shipboard and shoreside personnel sake accountability.

 

• Continuous oversight and update of the corporate fuel consumption & expense forecast, incl. fuel hedge portfolio.

 

• Identify, evaluate new technologies and operations optimization tools i.e., Data, AI & ML based solutions, to help reduce the annual corporate fuel consumption and thereby greenhouse gas emissions.

 

• Responsible for collecting and compiling fuel consumption, expense, emissions, and intensity metrics needed for corporate reporting, Sustainability report, Carbon Disclosure Project, Fleet Objective and Targets, and the Board.

 

• Ensure compliance follow-up plan and reporting for IMO environmental regulations pertaining to energy efficiency of existing ships (EEXI), carbon intensity indicator (CII), also including decarbonization strategy and targets compliance w.r.t the itinerary speed planning, hull performance, operational efficiency etc.

 

• Steer Data-Driven multi-million energy retrofit investment program with projects varying in size and scope for fu