Job Description

Holland America Line and Seabourn offer world-renown vacations at sea to travelers around the globe. This is an opportunity to join a dynamic, unified organization as part of their highly experienced team in our corporate office.  

We’re seeking a proactive and detail-oriented Planner I to join our dynamic team in Seattle. In this role, you’ll play a key part in ensuring our operations run smoothly by designing and executing strategic crew rotation schedules. Your mission: to maintain a full roster of qualified, competent personnel across assigned disciplines—balancing efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and compliance with operational standards.

Here’s a summary of what Holland America Line is looking for in its Planner I. Is this you?

Responsibilities

• Effectively develops and maintains cost effective and progressive shipboard schedules for the crew under the disciplines assigned.

• Accounts for shortages and prepares contingency plans ensuring replacements are arranged to avoid extended periods of shortfall. 

• Collaborates with shipboard management and operational departments identify manning issues and develop planning solutions.

• Resolves escalated issues from shipboard management, shore side management and recruiting offices.

• Ensures proper and timely communication is maintained at all times with shipboard management, shore side management and recruiting offices.

• Consistently delivers on commitments to external and internal business partners.

• Reviews MAPS data for accuracy in travel days, leave accrual and MAPS exception reports, etc.

• Monitors output of Automated Planning Tools.

• Any special projects or duties as assigned by the manager

Requirements

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written) for negotiating, responding and resolving complex, sensitive and confidential issues. 

• Ability to analyze, negotiate, respond and resolve complex, sensitive and confidential issues and communicate clearly (verbally and written) will all levels of employees, management and customers.

• Proficient in the use of computer business applications with working knowledge of word processing, spreadsheets and database applications.

• Well-developed planning and organizational skills.

• Demonstrated ability to successfully manage competing priorities, to meet frequent deadlines and to work with sensitive and confidential information.

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.  Holland America is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas at this time (e.g., H-1B status).

What You Can Expect

• Cruise and Travel Privileges for You and Your Family
• Health Benefits
• 401(k) 
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan 
• Training & Professional Development
• Tuition & Professional Certification Reimbursement
• Rewards & Incentives 
• Base Hourly Range: $22.79 to $30.77. The range is applicable for the labor market where the role is intended to be hired. Final base salary is directly related to each candidates' qualifications and experience uniquely.
  

Our Culture… Stronger Together

Our highest responsibility and top priority is compliance, environmental protection and the health, safety and well-being of our guests, the people in the communities we touch and serve, and our shipboard and shoreside employees.  Please visit our site to learn more about our Culture Essentials, Corporate Vision Statement and our Core Values at:  https://www.hollandamerica.com/en_US/our-company/mission-values.html

Holland America Line is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Holland America Line will provide reasonable accommodations with the application process, upon your request, as required to comply with applicable laws.If you have a disability and require assistance in this application process, please contact recruiting@hollandamericagroup.com

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