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Assistant Island Shore Excursion Manager Perfect opportunities begin at Perfect Day! Combine your experience and sense of adventure by joining our exciting team of employees in CocoCay, Bahamas. Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. is pleased to offer a competitive compensation & benefits package, and excellent career development opportunities, each offering unique ways to explore the world. Position Summary: The Assistant Island ShoreEx Manager should possess a dynamic outgoing demeanor with a passion for delivering industry leading service while demonstrating exemplary skills. The role establishes and drives a positive working environment and focuses on the Guest Experience while operating with optimum Safety in all activities with our guest and fellow colleagues in mind. The Assistant Island ShoreEx Manager is responsible for assisting the Island Shore Excursions Manager in ensuring the smooth day-to-day operation of all sports & leisure activities (e.g. wave jet, kayak, Flight Line, Coaster etc.), tours & excursions, water safety, rentals, retail stores, and recreational facilities. The Assistant Island ShoreEx Manager is also responsible for providing assistance and support to the lifeguard team as and when required. They will create schedules allowing for adequate cover of all duties and will facilitate and schedule all training needs. The Assistant Island ShoreEx Manager will manage performance of lifeguard and Shore Excursions staff. Leading by example at the Front of House; this is a position that requires exemplary customer engagement. This includes, but is not limited to, health and safety, guest service, cleanliness, revenue generation, expense control, training, leading tours, first aid, CPR and the upkeep and maintenance of equipment.   Additionally, the Assistant Island ShoreEx Manager must ensure compliance with all laws, health and safety procedures, manufacturer guidelines, and standards set forth by Starguard, PADI, ASTM, WSIA, SQM, and RCCL guidelines. They must also possess knowledge of equipment maintenance, and demonstrate the ability to react appropriately to adverse weather and water conditions. As a leader in the organization, he/she must lead and inspire all employees to work to their highest capabilities and ensure they continuously develop talent in the department. This includes providing feedback on manning levels to maintain a positive and safe work environment as well as monitoring training needs and facilitating training. The role supports the Aquatics Supervisors, Lifeguards, Aquatic Guides, Dive instructors, Aquatics Staff, and Parasail Boat Operators as and when required. This position reports directly to the Island Shore Excursions Manager. The vision is to ensure total guest experience achieved through delivering a flawless program at all levels ensuring the maximum safety of guests and employees while enhancing product delivery, generating revenue streams and ensuring optimum knowledge shared with all employees as it relates to Rescue, Safety, Maintenance, Risk, Guest Satisfaction and compliance. This position description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the Island employee occupying this position. Employees may be required to perform any other job-related duties assigned by their supervisor or management. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: All duties and responsibilities are to be performed in accordance with Royal Caribbean International’s Royal Way Experience, SQM standards, health and safety guidelines, environmental guidelines, PADI standards, lifeguard standards, and safety policies.  Each employee may be required to perform other functions. Each employee must conduct oneself in a professional and courteous manner at all times. This consists of physical and verbal interactions with guests or fellow shipboard and Island employees. The role performs the following essential duties and responsibilities: Assist the Island Shore Excursions Manager in all aspects of the operation. In the absence of the Island Shore Excursions Manager, the Assistant Island ShoreEx Manager will assume the responsibilities of the Island Shore Excursions Manager. Support in the management of a total of 70+ employees. Monitor the application of safety standards in training, lifeguarding, tour guiding, maintenance of equipment, etc. Maintain a general knowledge of the entire island operation. Maintain a complete knowledge of the operation including the operating procedures for all attractions and positions. Propose changes of existing standards or implementation of new procedures when needed to improve safety efficiency. Perform, teach, and evaluate lifeguarding skills and all tour operations on the Private Destination. Work with the Management Team in maintaining a safe operation for both employees and guests. Participate and conduct in regular meetings with the team and management to ensure good communication. Attend and conduct safety training programs, in-service education, and physical training as required. Conduct daily and frequent site inspections to ensure that all departments and employees meet the highest possible standards of safety, courtesy, cleanliness, and efficiency. Conduct daily, weekly, monthly, and annual inspections and safety checks of all operating areas. Lead, record, and document all inspections and trainings to ensure conformance to standards. Create and deliver job specific trainings and competency testing in order to equip all employees with the skills, knowledge, and attitude to perform their jobs. Develop skills and knowledge of team, provide further training and feedback for those interested in career development. Clearly explain all expectations, roles, and responsibilities to employees. Develop, implement, and monitor schedules and rotation sheets for the operation. Work to maintain an efficient and cooperative atmosphere among employees. Role model and reinforce all company policies, as well as serve as a positive ambassador. Monitor activities around aquatic recreational facilities to prevent or preempt injuries and provide assistance to guests as and when required, while ensuring the well-being of guests within the area. Report, document and follow up with any accidents, injuries or incidents around the aquatic recreational facilities. Assist in investigating any incident that occurs and ensure the incident investigation is completed in a timely manner in compliance with the investigation policy and procedures. Ensure the water front areas are tidy, answer questions, enforcing policies, rules and regulations in a polite yet confident manner. Assist, monitor and operate designated tours and aquatic recreational spaces including, but not limited to; opening and closing, monitoring water front locations, water attractions and general activities around the water front areas. Work outdoors guarding aquatic recreational areas or providing tours, which involves standing in the sun exposed to external elements throughout the day. Supervises and provides surveillance of swimmers and guests during ship call days. Be fully lifeguard qualified and certified, and maintain company required qualifications and licenses. Participate in regular training, including but not limited to; Lifeguard training, CPR/First Aid, AED, recurring in-service training, re-certification, and any other as deemed appropriate from management. Perform rescues of guests in danger of drowning and be alert to accidents. Administer first aid, CPR, Oxygen and AED as needed in accordance with training received. Participate and facilitate (once Instructor Certification is achieved) all Lifeguard initial and re-certification trainings and provide facilitation for all internal audits, in-service trainings. Train Team to respond quickly, intelligently, and decisively to incidents and emergencies. Regularly participate in emergency scenarios to maintain a “rescue ready” culture. Work with the Island Shore Excursions Manager to coordinate all communication related to training, SOP development and on-site unannounced audits. Understand the workings of the Lifeguard Portal to assist with the tracking of lifeguard information and qualifications. Respond to any type of incident in a controlled and appropriate Coordinating responses from individuals and any equipment required. Drive boats and respond to any water related incident. Ensure all areas of concern are fixed before the area or equipment is placed in operation. Identify safety hazards, housekeeping issues, or maintenance requirements and report issues to the appropriate channels. Explain the difference between Gross and Net revenues and know how to Identify tours with higher profit margins. Train the team on what tours are higher profit margins and how to up sell and cross sell tours. Be able to explain when and if a tour should be cancelled due to weather and safety. Reschedule and redirect guests to alternative activities to retain revenue. Train Team to effectively communicate with guests during operational changes and evacuations. Train team on sales techniques and promotion of island activities. Ensure Team recognizes unusual conditions and are always ready to initiate appropriate operational changes. Ensure all Team operates within Starguard, ASTM, PADI and RCCL guidelines along with internal procedures. Maintain cleanliness by straightening out furniture, organizing equipment, returning life jackets to stands, picking up garbage, etc. Understand the workings of the PADI website to assist with the tracking of instructor information and qualifications. Monitor and document compliance of employee insurance requirements. Project a positive public relations image to employees and guests at all times. Display a friendly, helpful, and cheerful attitude while communicating effectively with employees and guests. Fully engage a team environment and cultivate a culture where people want to do their best. Motivate, inspire, appraise, coach, guide and teach team members on all facets of the program. Foster team unity and inspires commitment to the brand. Ensure all employees have current information and are equipped to respond to guest needs and anticipate their unstated ones. Turn problems into opportunities by actively listening to and quickly resolving guest complaints. Actively seek and assist guests and be available to answer questions. Implement initiatives, changes, and trainings aimed to continuously improve the guest experience. Enforce all rules and provide crowd control in a friendly and fair manner. Track guest comments. Highlight areas of concern and provide effective solutions. Prepare and compile financial and operational reports for the Management Team. Apply expertise in order to ensure performance stays within the bounds of the designated budget and with regulations and where possible, best corporate/industry practice. Provide input on revenue generating opportunities and proactively makes recommendations for cost savings. Monitor inventory to ensure quality and timely delivery of products. Receive, issue, and take inventory of supplies and equipment. Report shortages to the appropriate channels. Perform other related duties as required. This position description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the Island employee occupying this position. Island employees will be required to perform any other job-related duties assigned by management. Accepts ownership for achieving results in all areas of accountability including NPS, ratings, revenue, and expenses, Workplace Safety and Employee Satisfaction. Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree (B.A.) from four-year College or university, or two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Prior experience supervising and instructing Aquatics programs and or land based tour operations is advantageous. Working knowledge of computers, Internet access, and the ability to navigate within a variety of software packages such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, E1, Medallia, Amos, ASR and crunch time required. Previous experience in training lifeguarding skills and developing a lifeguarding program. Lifeguard certified from a recognized agency. Demonstrated aptitude for the financial aspects of managing departmental budgets. Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personalized service including needs assessment, problem resolution and achievement of quality service standards. Previous exposure to international environments strongly preferred. Previous experience in water sport/amusement parks/tours safety planning and procedures. Demonstrated leadership capabilities. Knowledge of PADI standards would be an advantage. Ability to confidently drive and maneuver boat. Or have the ability to learn and develop the skills to become a confident boat operator. Ability or capacity to be trained to assume the role of Island Shore Excursions Manager in their absence. Basic Public Health knowledge required. Language Requirements: Have a good command of English to understand and enforce rules in a polite and effective manner. All employees must be able to communicate in the English language in order to understand and interpret written procedures. This includes the ability to give and receive instructions in written and verbal forms and to effectively present information and respond to questions from guests, supervisors and co-workers. Additional languages would be advantageous. Physical Demands: Must be physically fit and able bodied to be trained as a lifeguard Instructor. Demonstrate the ability to swim a minimum of a 300 meter swim, 2 minutes water tread without use of hands and be able to dive 3-4 meters to ocean floor picking up a 10 LB weight. Must be able to stand in the sun and endure external elements during work assignment. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to touch, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. All island employees must be physically able to participate in emergency lifesaving procedures and drills. Full use and range of arms and legs as well as full visual, verbal, hearing abilities are required to receive and give instructions in the event of an emergency, including the lowering of lifeboats. Ability to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Work Environment: While performing duties of this job, the employee is required to walk outdoors in extreme humid and hot conditions for extended periods of time. This is a position where duties are exercised outdoors and walking in sand and uneven surfaces will be required. Join us at Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., where great vacations begin with great employees! It is the policy of the Company to ensure equal employment and promotion opportunity to qualified candidates without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, sexuality, gender identity or expression, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law. RCL and each of its subsidiaries prohibit and will not tolerate discrimination or harassment.

Cook Assistant Commis Perfect opportunities begin at Perfect Day! Combine your experience and sense of adventure by joining our exciting team of employees in CocoCay, Bahamas. Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. is pleased to offer a competitive compensation & benefits package, and excellent career development opportunities, each offering unique ways to explore the world. Position Summary: The Cook Assistant Commis is responsible for preparing and cooking high quality foods according to Royal Caribbean International's recipe standard. Primarily assist the Chef de Partie and be capable of executing heavy production demand on a daily basis. This position description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the Island employee occupying this position. Employees may be required to perform any other job-related duties assigned by their supervisor or management. All duties and responsibilities are to be performed in accordance with the Company's Safety, Quality and Environmental standards. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: All duties and responsibilities are to be performed in accordance with Royal Caribbean International’s Royal Way Experience, SQM standards, USPH guidelines, environmental, and safety policies. Each Island employee may be required to perform other functions in various venues In accordance with Royal Caribbean International’s philosophy of Anchored in Excellence, each employee conducts oneself in a professional and courteous manner at all times. This consists of physical and verbal interactions with guests or fellow employees. Specific Duties: Each culinary Island employee reports to their workstation assignment on time and properly groomed and dressed according to Royal Caribbean International’s The Royal Way. This includes a clean uniform, name tag, Chef’s hat, apron, hair net for ladies, calibrated thermometer, neckerchief with gold color neck slide, company approved specified safety shoes and wearing appropriate PPE according to assigned tasks. In accordance with Royal Caribbean International’s philosophy of Anchored in Excellence , each employee conducts one’s self in a professional and courteous manner at all times. This consists of physical and verbal interactions with Guests or fellow shipboard and island employees and/or in the presence of Guest contact, and employee areas. Collaborates with the assigned station-head, usually the Chef de Partie to review the requirements of the day’s meals and time frames for service. Practices at all times HACCP and onboard sanitation and hygiene standards, in compliance with ship’s international itinerary. Acquires proficiency in regards to onboard public health control plan to ensure all foods, served and prepared, are safe for consumption. Records food temperature, and prepares other required logs. Learns about OPP and practices common procedures to prevent outbreak. Works with assigned station team members or all others in a cooperative, productive and effective manner. Provide new employees a positive example and guidance on daily activities and familiarization of the work place. Knows and operates all equipment according to Company’s standard operating procedures. Adjusts thermostat controls to regulate temperature of refrigerators, ovens, broilers, grills, roasters, steam kettles, etc. Tests equipment to ensure accuracy of temperature gauges, heating or cooling elements, etc. Reports to station head all malfunctions and requests necessary repairs. Maintains cleanliness of all utensils and equipment in their assigned section, taking care not to splash water inside the electrical components to prevent damage. Handle carefully all equipment by placing them in the right storage areas and never allowing anything to drop onto the floor while transporting to other location. Report immediately to supervisor any equipment that is out of order or needs to be repaired. Pick up food items from the ship provision store and deliver food products to certain outlets. Remove empty cartons and boxes in the provision area and bring them to incinerator room. Practice correct garbage separation. Follow Island preparedness plan for all venues for ship call day Organize and prepare meals in place. Measures and mixes ingredients according to recipe to prepare soups, salads, gravies, desserts, sauces, and casseroles. Evaluate foods being cooked by tasting, smelling, and determining the correct food temperature by using a calibrated and sanitized thermometer. Works in various stations that prepare meat, fish, vegetables, and other foods for baking, roasting, broiling, grilling, braising, sautéing, steaming, etc. Perform multitask activities such as wash, peel, cut and shred fruits and vegetables. Butcher chicken, fish and shellfish. Cut, trim and bone meat prior to cooking or serving. Places food items, portions and garnishments in accordance with Royal Caribbean International’s corporate recipe standard. Ensure all foods on plates at Coco beach Club are correctly portioned and served uniformly. While working in front of the house or buffet areas must be able to explain ingredients in the menu and preparation techniques. While working at the company’s private destination, consider safety of one’s self, colleagues and guests. Be familiar with the nearest first aid station, location of safety equipment and routes around the island’s work station. Ensure to provide guests with professional and friendly service at all times. Responsible to secure Company property and food products brought to the island. Must work in best sanitary condition as applied onboard including standard of hygiene and cleanliness. Cleans workstations before and after meal preparation. Follows cleaning procedures for work surfaces, and all related equipment and utensils. Assembles workstation for the next meal preparation shift. This includes cleaning of food storage areas and refrigerators. Practice ergonomic exercise such as stretching before reporting for duty. Required to report first stage of illness or health disorder to immediate supervisors. Attends meetings, training activities, company culinary training course and all other work-related activities on time. Performs related duties as required. This position description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the shipboard employee occupying this position. Shipboard employees will be required to perform any other job-related duties assigned by their supervisor or management. Qualifications: Proof of cook apprenticeship completion or equivalency. Minimum 3 years kitchen experience in a 4 star hotel, restaurant or high volume food service facility. Ability to read, interpret, demonstrate culinary fundamentals and knife skills. Possesses sound knowledge of food handling procedures with regard to public health standards and kitchen cleanliness. Knowledge of food ingredients from international classical dishes. Ability to identify and operate common kitchen equipment such as grinders, deep fryers, ovens, Bain Marie, mixers, etc. Ability to work positively and cooperatively in a diverse team environment. Ability to communicate tactfully with others. Completion of high school or basic education equivalency preferred. Computer literacy is a plus. Language Requirements: Ability to speak English clearly, distinctly and cordially with guests. Ability to read and write English in order to understand and interpret written procedures. This includes the ability to give and receive instructions in written and verbal forms and to effectively present information and respond to questions from guests, supervisors and co-workers. Ability to speak additional languages such as Spanish, French or German preferred. Be able to compute basic arithmetic. Physical Requirements: Must be able to stand in the sun and endure external elements during work assignment. Long periods may be endured in hot humid outdoor environment. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to touch, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. All employees must be physically able to participate in emergency procedures and drills. Full use and range of arms and legs as well as full visual, verbal, hearing abilities are required to receive and give instructions in the event of an emergency. Ability to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Join us at Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., where great vacations begin with great employees! It is the policy of the Company to ensure equal employment and promotion opportunity to qualified candidates without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, sexuality, gender identity or expression, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law. RCL and each of its subsidiaries prohibit and will not tolerate discrimination or harassment.