Lead, Design Integration

Position Summary

The Lead, Design Integrator is responsible for executing and managing a design process and works in close collaboration with the various design disciplines such as Architectural Design, Naval Architecture, and Technical Design for the Newbuilding team at Royal Caribbean Group. This role serves as a right hand and partner to the Design Project leader overseeing the project and supports all aspects of planning, tracking, status reporting, and ensuring alignment with design project goals.

It is also responsible for facilitating decision‑making around time, cost, scope, and quality to drive momentum while ensuring design remains within its schedule and quality guardrails.

The role is full‑time, onsite and based in Miami, Florida and is not eligible for work authorization sponsorship.

The Royal Caribbean Group’s Newbuild Team has an exciting career opportunity for a full time Lead, Desing Integration to the Manager, Design Integration role.

• Manages all aspects of Design planning, tracking, and status reporting, partnering with internal and external stakeholders to collect, analyze, and report data for recommended course of action.
• Fosters effective collaboration and acts as a “translator” between various design disciplines, internally and externally to facilitate seamless integration.
• Promotes collaborative innovation with an eye to schedule, cost and risk awareness throughout each design phase.
• Maintains detailed project schedules using industry‑standard scheduling practices, collaborates closely with various cross‑functional teams to establish design timelines and milestones, ensures timely achievement of same, and supports implementation of corrective actions as needed.
• Ensures accuracy, validity of data on dashboards and reports and proactively maintains the same.
• Supports project team to manage design program scope, customer and executive expectations, and overall Design program focus.
• Continually reviews goals, adjusting ways of working to accommodate integration within Design.
• Analyzes potential schedule risks and proactively ideates mitigation strategies; prepares and presents schedule reports and updates to stakeholders, flagging critical risks and potential impacts to time, cost, or quality of the project.
• Supports rigorous tracking of budgets to ensure cost‑effectiveness and alignment with financial scope to keep costs justified, transparent, and within approved parameters.
• Ensures adherence to project processes and recommends enhancements.
• Proactively engages with stakeholders to report project status, communicate progress and key insights to facilitate informed decision‑making while aligning with organizational goals.
• Regularly reviews and communicates the design project plan status to stakeholders, partners, and the team.
• Participates in the study of operational needs and current performance to identify areas for improvement and efficiency; act as the liaison between project team members, external partners, and other internal departments.
• Remains current with industry trends, especially in project management techniques that impact project objectives.
• Performs other duties as required; this job description does not constitute an exhaustive list of responsibilities.

• Education:
  
  Bachelor’s or Master’s degree with a concentration in Construction/Architecture, Business Management, Industrial Engineering, Project Management, or a related field.
• Experience:
  
  Minimum of 5 years overall experience, including 2 years of managing multi‑million‑dollar projects and high‑performing teams.
• Software proficiency: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and Project; familiarity with AutoCAD and financial systems such as AMOS, Clarity, Lotus Notes Database, JDE, and Essbase. Position may require up to 25 % travel to ships, shipyards, and vendor facilities in Europe, Asia, and North America.

• Strong leadership skills with proven experience managing a small to medium team of professionals and effectively engaging clients and partners.
• Deep understanding of design, construction, materials, pricing, and industry standards.
• Strong written and verbal…