Job Description

Carnival UK is seeking a Public Health Operations Manager, a pivotal role responsible for leading and overseeing all environmental health programs and practices across our fleet. This position is crucial in setting direction, ensuring compliance, and driving excellence in environmental health standards, while also nurturing a high-performing team.

Role Overview

Maritime is responsible for the safe operation of P&O Cruises and Cunard’s fleet. We achieve this by developing capable and motivated colleagues, providing assets that are fit for purpose, and delivering operational processes that meet and exceed business needs. Our Maritime teams deliver the health, environment, safety, security, and nautical & engineering expertise required to create unforgettable holiday experiences for our guests.

The Public Health Operations Manager will take full ownership of CUK’s environmental programs and practices, ensuring they are implemented, monitored, and continuously improved. This role is critical in protecting the shipboard population from environmental hazards and communicable disease risks, safeguarding health standards across the fleet.

Key accountabilities include:

Responds and coordinates activities with shipboard and shoreside Public Health and brand operational teams to promote a strong public health culture and operational compliance to high public health standards.

Monitor and coordinate the agile response to public health events including disease outbreaks.

Analyse public health inspection reports for trends and recommend program enhancements to continuously improve operational excellence and compliance.

Managing public health programs through the active hiring, evaluation and training of shipboard Fleet and Public Health Officers, as well as managing a small team shoreside.

Positioned within our internal structure from CUK15 (entry level) to CUK1 (Brand President), this role is classified as a CUK07, offered as a full-time position, on a permanent basis, we offer hybrid work including up to two days from home.

Essential Functions:

Operational Support

Manages the Public Health Associate, Fleet Public Health Officers (FPHO), and shipboard Public Health Officers (PHO) to evaluate and support the rapid resolution of compliance and operational issues.

Conducts routine meetings with the FPHOs, PHOs and brand stakeholders to coordinate activities, identify fleet and ship specific issues and develop a time sensitive response plan.

Analyses data to identify brand, ship, department, rank and individual training needs and collaborates with stakeholders to deliver targeted training.

Supports the response to public health threats including disease outbreak prevention and response.  Actively engages with the brand operational teams to plan and anticipate additional support requirements and establish contingency plans.  

Ensures consistent application of policies and procedures through audits, training, feedback and ongoing technical evaluation.

Assists in the development of brand-specific public health programs that are supported by current evidence-based public health practices.

Compliance & Continuous Quality Improvement

Develops and reviews program and inspection performance metrics to evaluate operational efficiencies and effectiveness.

Ensures shipboard environmental health inspection programs are flexible and targeted to identify public health risks.

Promotes a strong shipboard public health culture to drive high public health standards and inspection performance.

Manages shipboard corrective action plans to ensure timely completion of findings and maintain program and policy compliance. Collaborates with brand operational teams and stakeholders to build engagement and ownership of resolving corrective actions.

Maintains awareness of relevant local, national, and international public health standards, and regulations to ensure compliance.

Policy & Procedures

Knowledgeable of public health policies and programs, and assists with the development, updates and implementation.

Understands and communicates the Brand’s priorities and objectives.

Proactively identifies brand-specific public health risks and needs by anticipating the effect of proposed policies and/or procedures.

Financial Management

Assists with development of the annual public health financial plan.

Monitors the accuracy of compliance with the financial plan and makes suggestions for cost containment.

Manages the payment of invoices for public health programs

People Management and Development

Sets training and performance expectations by providing clear guidance through effective communication.

Conducts fair and constructive appraisals and coaches’ individuals toward measurable performance improvement.

Identifies and assesses individuals for promotion

Instils accountability and responsiveness to current business priorities and objectives.

Supports scheduling of the FPHOs and PHOs to ensure their optimal performance onboard each vessel.

Supports the review of applications, conducts interviews and hires FPHOs and PHOs.

Training

Determines the training needs of the fleet, ships, roles and individuals.

Assists with the development and updates to training material and programs.

Facilitates training of FPHOs and PHOs to achieve high performance.

Requirements: Your Expertise and Leadership

To thrive as a Public Health Operations Manager, we're looking for:

Formal qualification at diploma/degree level or equivalent in a relevant area of Public or Environmental Health, such as food safety, infectious disease management, pest control, health and safety or public health

Technical qualification in a relevant area of Public or Environmental Health, such as water safety, air system safety, pool & spa safety and management, or food safety

Extensive experience in Environmental or Public Health role managing public health programmes/operations

Experience of managing a team, especially if some of those team members have worked remotely

About You: A Catalyst for Change

We believe that diversity enriches our team. We're interested in candidates who:

Demonstrate leadership skills

Communicate effectively across all levels of colleagues and stakeholders

Thrive in fast paced environment

Can travel to our ships as required

Why Join Us?

Working with us is about more than a job. It's about creating unforgettable holiday happiness for our guests and a fulfilling career for you.

Read our employee experience guide to learn more about life as a Carnival UK colleague.

CUK-employee-experience-guide-July-2025.pdf

Our benefits package reflects our commitment to your wellbeing:

Employee Discounted Cruising plus Friends and Family offers

Annual bonus

Extensive learning and development opportunities

Minimum 25 days leave, bank holiday allowance and holiday trading scheme

Employee-led networks

Employee Assistance and Wellbeing programmes

Recognition scheme with prizes and awards

Contributory Defined Contribution Pension scheme

Company paid private medical and dental insurance and health assessment

In-house Occupational Health help and access to digital GP

Life Assurance

Parental and adoption leave

Employee Shares Plan

Electric Car and Cycle to Work schemes

Ready to Lead?

If guiding a team within the Maritime Team here at Carnival UK to new heights excites you, we're eager to hear from you. Apply now to start your journey with us, where your performance-led leadership will make a difference in our shared success.

Recruitment Journey

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