Fleet Manager, Entertainment Stage

Fleet Manager, Entertainment Stage

This role bridges onboard scenic operations and shoreside oversight, ensuring that scenic assets, backstage areas, and stage elements meet technical, aesthetic, and safety standards. The Fleet Manager travels regularly to support onboard teams with repairs, installations, and emergency fixes, while also coordinating fleetwide logistics for scenic inventory, storage, and asset movement.

This is a shipboard-based position with a remote home base and regular deployment across the fleet. The Fleet Manager is empowered to implement standardized practices, resolve high-priority stage-related issues, and drive operational improvement. The role is part of the Entertainment Technical leadership team and reports to the Manager, Entertainment Technical.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Monitor and support daily shipboard stage operations, ensuring safe, high-quality, and consistent performance.
• Enforce brand and industry safety standards across all entertainment stage environments.
• Deliver in-field training and performance development for Technicians and Entertainment Technical Managers (ETMs).
• Provide expert-level support for complex scenic and carpentry issues, including emergency response and repairs.
• Lead maintenance, restoration, and installation efforts for scenic assets, including quality control and tracking.
• Perform operational audits to verify compliance, readiness, and technical integrity.
• Act as technical liaison to creative and production teams, ensuring show intent aligns with capabilities.
• Support new show installations, drydocks, charters, and special projects.
• Compile operational reports and recommend fleetwide improvements based on in-field findings.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience managing backstage operations or scenic construction, including 2+ years in a supervisory role.
• Strong knowledge of scenic construction, prop fabrication, scenic painting, and handling of soft goods such as curtains and masking.
• Familiarity with safe use of adhesives, paints, and hazardous tools or materials.
• Ability to read and write scenic plots, construction drawings, and inventory/storage documentation.
• Experience in touring, theme park, or cruise ship environments strongly preferred.
• OSHA 10/30 certification and/or backstage safety and carpentry training preferred.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, AutoCAD or Vectorworks, and ticketing/maintenance tracking tools.

Leadership Skills

• Proven ability to lead and coach diverse technical teams in fast-paced, multicultural settings.
• Skilled communicator with the ability to interface across all levels of shipboard and shoreside operations.
• Calm under pressure, organized across multiple concurrent projects, and able to manage shifting priorities.

Additional Requirements

• Must be able to lift up to 50 lbs, work at heights, and adapt to shipboard environments.
• Shipboard role with remote home base; frequent travel across the fleet.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a valid seafarer medical certificate of fitness and all required travel documents.