Shipyard Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Team Leadership: Manage, train, and motivate a team of manufacturing engineering personnel, including hiring, performance evaluations, and professional development.
• Engineering Oversight: Ensure manufacturing engineering deliverables support efficient vessel construction, including work packages, installation planning, technical issue resolution, and production readiness.
• Manufacturing Engineering Management: Identify and implement continuous improvement initiatives related to production flow, scheduling, planning, build sequencing, and technical operations performance.
• Production Engineering Coordination: Coordinate with production engineering leadership to ensure effective execution of activities related to structural assembly, vessel systems integration, outfitting coordination, and product design improvements to ensure technical alignment across departments.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure engineering and manufacturing activities comply with company standards, shipyard procedures, regulatory requirements, and applicable maritime industry specifications.
• Safety Compliance: Work with the EHS team to enforce workplace safety protocols and ensure engineering-driven production activities are executed in accordance with Saronic EHS guidelines and company policies.
• Reporting and Operational Metrics: Monitor and report key performance indicators (KPIs) related to production efficiency, engineering throughput, build execution, schedule performance, labor utilization, downtime for repair (DFR), and technical issue resolution.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of shipbuilding, heavy manufacturing, or maritime industrial experience.
• Experience leading vessel construction, production operations, or manufacturing engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of modular construction, production sequencing, and waterfront operations.
• Demonstrated success improving production efficiency, throughput, quality, and schedule performance.
• Experience managing cross-functional teams including production, engineering, planning, and quality.
• Preferred: Experience in advanced manufacturing, industrialization, automation, or digital production systems.
• Experience supporting Navy and commercial vessel programs.
• Lean manufacturing or continuous improvement experience.