Deputy Operations Manager Custom Arc

About the role

The Deputy Operations Manager for Custom Arc is responsible for managing supervisors and directing welding operations across multiple projects. This role involves providing direction to welders, ensuring they have the necessary skills, and coordinating with various teams to meet project timelines and budgets.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates with Discipline Superintendents and the Lead Field Welding Engineer to validate manpower and welder qualification requirements.
• Reviews weekly scheduled work plans with discipline superintendents for pipe commodities to ensure the project has the welder resources available with the proper qualifications to support the planned work scopes.
• Supervises and coordinates daily with direct hire and subcontract representatives on pipe construction activities, including fabrication team and materials management team.
• Manages established area operational plans, schedules work to be performed, and reviews work accomplished by each craft.
• Forecasts labor unit rates, field distributables, construction equipment, and quantities.
• Coordinates construction operations impact on external interfaces to ensure they coincide with the overall established schedules.
• Coordinates with other subcontractors and external stakeholders (or subcontractors) to plan construction schedules.
• Maintains cooperative labor-management relations on the assigned construction projects.
• Manages workforce requirements and determines necessary preventative and/or corrective actions to minimize labor problems that may lead to work stoppages and construction schedule delays.
• Supports and coaches field supervision on managing performance of craft employees, ensuring fairness and consistency across the project.
• Handles Labor Relations activities on small to medium-sized projects, including resolving work stoppages.
• Represents Bechtel in external meetings with local union officials.
• Supervises the implementation of process improvement initiatives with union officials, construction management, and reviews policies and practices to recommend changes.
• Supports and coaches field supervision on managing performance of craft employees, ensuring fairness and consistency across the project.
• Handles Labor Relations activities on small to medium-sized projects, including resolving work stoppages.
• Represents Bechtel in external meetings with local union officials.
• Supervises the implementation of process improvement initiatives with union officials, construction management, and reviews policies and practices to recommend changes.

Requirements

• Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 10-13 years of relevant experience or 14-17 years of relevant work experience.
• Minimum of 16 to 20 years industry experience in welding and welding supervision with a minimum 16 years Bechtel experience.
• Knowledge of supervisory functions relating to field welding activities.
• Good communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Computer literate in word processing, spreadsheets, and database applications.
• Working knowledge of applicable industry codes and standards.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving ability.
• Demonstrated ability to manage and lead teams.

Qualifications

• Must have the ability to walk into and out of the project (enter/egress).
• Must be able to use appropriate standard issued Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) required for each assigned task (i.e. harness, life vest, lift buckets, etc.).

Skills

• Heavy industrial direct hire construction experience commensurate with union projects and the type of work to be undertaken.

Benefits

Bechtel offers a comprehensive range of benefits to ensure our people thrive. These include career advancement opportunities, program delivery to enhance our culture, and time to recharge. We are dedicated to creating a workplace where every colleague feels they belong—where colleagues feel part of "One Team," respected and rewarded for what they bring, supported in pursuing their goals, invested in our values and purpose, and treated equitably. For more information, visit bechtel.com/total-rewards.

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