Marine Logistics Manager

American Cruise Lines•Guilford, CT

12d•Onsite

About The Position

Marine Logistics Manager American Cruise Lines is seeking a shoreside Marine Logistics Manager to work in our Guilford, CT, office, supporting our growing cruise ship fleet sailing unique itineraries along rivers and coastal waterways of the East Coast, Pacific Northwest, Columbia-Snake Rivers, and Mississippi-Ohio-Cumberland Rivers. Our ideal candidate should be experienced in fundamental data entry, demonstrate poised negotiation tactics, exhibit excellent intrapersonal skills, and have relationship-building capacity. Our candidate should be a meticulous and disciplined task manager, prioritizing and delivering a fast-paced workflow. Our candidate must be a committed workplace role model working in teams and autonomously, always aligned with our company mission and values. As a Marine Logistics Manager, you are connected to our mission to Share America’s Story on the Finest American Ships. You are committed to providing accurate, timely, and cost-effective logistics to our ships and crews every day across an expansive operating area from Alaska to Florida. You deliver logistics consistently and economically, while also regularly surging capacity and pivoting solutions to deliver short-notice logistics requirements to keep our crews and ships sailing. You’re a role model of professionalism and optimism within our workplace. model, teach, and maintain the highest levels of seamanship, professionalism, and service. The position of Marine Logistics Manager is a great opportunity to play an essential role in serving our crews and ships while directly contributing to the continued success of American Cruise Lines. The Marine Manager reports to the VP of Marine Operations. The Manager supervises three regional Marine Logistic Coordinators supporting safe and compliant vessel operations, adherence to company and regulatory standards, and representing the company as a professional role model. Our Logistics Coordinator executes daily inventorying, price optimization, ordering, and invoice processing of fleet fuel, lubricants, waste oil, sewage, and regulatory requirements. The Marine Manager communicates continually and travels periodically to sustain positive partnering relationships and competitive agreements with docking, fuel, lubricant, waste oil, recycling, security, and hazardous waste disposal vendors, achieving year-over-year competitive advantage in compliance and logistics execution. The Marine Manager oversees routine inventories, reports, and audits to ensure regulatory adherence and reporting requirements to international, federal, and state agencies. The Marine Manager also produces and assesses quarterly updates outlining the current status, future outlook, and proposed execution plan for continual optimization of port, security, fuel, lubricant, waste oil, and hazardous waste disposal services. The Manager completes quarterly audits of 25% of fleet compliance and logistics execution, completing audits of every vessel annually. Marine Managers are detail-oriented and action-oriented professionals continually keeping fleet operations and logistics ahead of planning timelines and operational schedules. Our company’s values are Optimism, Commitment, Patriotism, and Merit. We live these values every day and we look for people who share them as we Share America’s Story on the Finest American Ships.

Requirements

Logistics purchasing and management experience.
Experience with Microsoft Suite programs, documents, and calendars.
Poised communication and problem-solving skills
Excellent intrapersonal and professional relationship-building skills
Proven multi-tasking and prioritization project execution skills
Purchasing and cost comparison-optimization experience

Responsibilities

Oversee daily fleet port, security, fuel, lubricant, waste oil, sewage servicing.
Understand and enforce fleet adherence to company and regulatory standards.
Sustain professional long-term relationships across vendor and community stakeholders.
Optimize economic and competitive advantage of fuel, lubricant, waste oil, and sewage services across all fleet routes.
Regularly compete and verify optimal vendors, providers, and service locations to achieve best economics and logistics.
Monthly auditing of marine and engine consumables for verification with procurement and supply chain teams
Audit and improve safe, compliant, and economical port, fuel, lubricant, waste oil, and sewage servicing.
Oversee and drive vessel newbuild delivery equipment procurement, regulatory certifications, crew move aboard and support shipyard with pertinent logistics support requests.
Oversee and drive vessel repositioning through Panama Canal keenly focused on regulatory compliance, crew safety and support.
Provide after-hours assistance and logistics support to the Fleet Operations Center as needed.
Interface with IT Development team to streamline and automate administrative functions and eliminate redundancies.
Bi-Weekly calls to vessel Marine Officers to audit and resolve logistics and communication restraints.
Approve and audit home office marine operations travel arrangements and business card purchases.
Interface with and provide guidance to Vessel Security System Manager ensuring adherence to project timelines and budgets.
Oversee and assist Marine Operations Admin in upkeep of pertinent compliance documentation.
Build teamwork across Marine, Engineering, Hotel, and Procurement department managers and procedures.
Oversee administrative reporting, filing, invoicing, and documentation of compliance and logistics responsibilities.