Ship Design Manager

About the role

Location: Orange, Texas. A well-established U.S. shipbuilder serving commercial and government customers is seeking an experienced Ship Design Manager to lead and coordinate vessel design and engineering activities at its Orange, Texas facility. This position provides technical and organizational leadership throughout the ship design process, ensuring engineering and production design deliverables are accurate, complete, constructible, and issued in accordance with project schedules. Working closely with Engineering, Production, Program Management, Planning, Material Control, Quality, customers, regulatory agencies, classification societies, and outside engineering partners, the Ship Design Manager will ensure vessel designs are successfully translated from functional requirements into production-ready information that supports safe, efficient, and cost-effective construction. The ideal candidate combines strong shipbuilding and marine design experience with proven leadership skills and the ability to manage multiple technical disciplines, priorities, and project requirements in a fast-paced shipyard environment. This is an on-site position requiring regular interaction with office-based engineering personnel and shipyard production operations. The Ship Design Manager must be comfortable working in an active industrial shipbuilding environment and may be required to board vessels under construction, access fabrication and production areas, climb stairs or ladders, and work around industrial equipment. Occasional travel to other company facilities, customer locations, vendor facilities, regulatory meetings, or project sites may be required.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate vessel design and engineering activities supporting new construction projects.
• Manage the development, review, coordination, and issuance of engineering and production design deliverables in accordance