Ship Manager - Norfolk, VA

About the role

The Project / Ship Manager supports the Maritime Solutions business in Norfolk, VA. This role leads the daily execution of a project/ship and its members of the Ship Management team. The Project / Ship Manager is responsible for meeting safety, quality, schedule, and cost goals.

Responsibilities

• Lead and facilitate teams through proactively addressing issues across multiple departments.
• Provide training support across team/peers and interact with internal/external customers across the enterprise.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for the entire operations team for their assigned ship.
• Direct production labor and support resources to successfully navigate the entire availability.
• Utilize ship repair knowledge, team-first mentality, and positive attitude to drive success.
• Lead teams and have links to production leadership to provide direction around adherence to safety, quality, cost, and schedule.
• Maintain safe working conditions and housekeeping of all areas of the ship.
• Coordinate Ship Management team daily; lead, coach, and hold team accountable to supporting efficient production efforts for timely execution of project.
• Maintain/develop new processes and procedures to promote safe, efficient work execution.
• Work with the logistics, procurement, and materials team to communicate project demands for materials in alignment with the schedule.
• Review quality key performance indicators to evaluate and identify opportunities for improvement across all trades working on project (Craft and Non-Craft).
• Support efficient execution of production by removing barriers.
• Identify corrective action for issues that develop daily throughout assigned area of responsibility.
• Cook up pier side logistics with material delivery, material protection, crane, and rigging teams to support schedule.
• Coordinate the production and testing cycles to support availability and oversee TIP/OQE completion to support project quality requirements.
• Maintain/monitor cost and schedule performance across all trades working within your assigned area through Earned Value Management system (at the Work Item and Activity Level), evaluate performance weekly, and develop mitigation plans with trades to resolve issues.
• Manage subcontractor work execution on deck plates and work with sub-contract management team for contractual issues to resolve issues/delays.
• De-conflict trade/subcontractor issues, in alignment with overall schedule goals.
• Lead efforts to develop area management plans (work strategy, sequencing, temp services arrangements, etc.) with the facilities, planning, and production teams and support departments.
• Exercise judgement in evaluating and proactively anticipating schedule and budget deviations.
• Coordinate communication and feedback with customer (IDRs, CFRs, etc.) to resolve technical issues where additional guidance is required (PM operates at MARMC level; SM operates at Ship’s Force level).

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree and 6 years of work experience or equivalent experience.
• Experience in Government / Commercial New Construction Shipbuilding or Ship Repair.
• Experience in managing cross-functional teams to deliver commitments.
• Strong planning and project management skills, with knowledge of ship repair processes and sequences.
• Ability to understand problems and to collaborate to explore identification of solutions.
• Ability to organize and prioritize own work schedule on short-term, and/or long-term basis, both for self and others.
• Ability to prioritize work projects and requirements and ability to develop concepts, plans, and work schedules and communicate them to others.
• Ability to effectively use written and oral communication skills; interact with managers, staff, co-workers, and others encountered in the course of work; ability to compose materials such as detailed reports and work-related documents and communicate substantively about them either verbally or in writing; communicate interactively and make presentations effectively.
• Ability to compute, analyze, and interpret numerical and/or statistical data for reporting purposes.

Qualifications

• Must be able to obtain a Confidential U.S. Person clearance.
• Must currently possess a U.S. Citizenship.

Skills

• Project Management Certification (e.g., PMP)

Benefits

Full-time salary range: $88,189 - $149,922. Individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.

Pay

Full-Time Salary Range: $88189 - $149922

Schedule

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