Superintendent, Cranes & Rigging
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4 days ago
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1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Job Description
Provide strategic departmental based technical and resource management for crane operation and yard rigging across all areas of the shipyard. This position reports to the Director of Outfitting Trades.
Key Responsibilities
Safety Leadership:
- Ensure compliance with OHHA BIW Safety Procedures and Test Procedures.
- Ensure employees are trained to successfully execute procedures.
- Lead initiatives to enhance workplace safety and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
Project Execution:
- Identify and resolve skill inadequacies through training assignment hiring and other movements of personnel.
- Ensure shipyard facilities are staffed to meet EACs.
- Help manage transportation: Learn and manage the SPMTs and Transporter as needed; the TTS system and translations of ships and major moves.
Operations Management:
- Provide leadership and single point authority in determining trade preferred practices.
- Monitor quality and quantity of work being performed.
- Responsible for trade cost and schedule performance.
- Oversee Earned Value Management (EVM) reporting on cost variances and corrective actions.
- Ensure compliance with material control procedures.
Training and Development:
- Provide technical guidance deckplate training and oversight to assistant superintendents FLSs and represented employees to improve development.
- Provide feedback and lessons learned to improve future planning and execution stages.
- Maintain adequate staffing levels.
Team Collaboration and Communication:
- Collaborate with trade and area management in an effort to assign resources and resolve department deckplate issues.
- Maintain a professional working environment withing the trade.
- Ensure the labor contract is implemented fairly and consistently in all areas of the shipyard.
Continuous Improvement:
- Identify and report systemic quality issues that can be evaluated and correction implementation by departmental process improvement initiatives.
- Execution lead for Crane Operator/Yard Rigger Operations Improvement Plan.
- Work with supporting division POCs in an effort to execute trade value stream projects and meet company Waste goals.
- Identify problems which drive cost and schedule impairments and lead process improvement initiatives to achieve maximum performance.
- Ensure best usage of trade facilities (shop tooling).
Required/Preferred Education/Training
- Bachelors degree in manufacturing construction management engineering or equivalent experience in related field required.
- Advanced degree preferred.
Required/Preferred Experience
- Minimum of (10) ten years extensive working knowledge in rigging and crane operating processes and/or applications in a manufacturing/shipbuilding environment required.
- Minimum of (10) ten years of supervisory experience required.
- A solid foundation in labor contract administration is required.
- Excellent administrative skills: effective interpersonal skills demonstrated skills in the areas of verbal and written communication problem solving/decision making skills conflict resolution skill and organizational skills required.
- Experience with cranes SPMTs transporter unit moves and fall protection preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively manage conflict and multiple priorities.
- Experience with Earned Value Management System preferred.
- Experience in labor contract administration preferred.
Key Skills
- Construction Experience
- ProCore
- Microsoft Outlook
- Prolog
- Cost Control
- Construction Management
- Renovation
- OSHA
- Project Management Software
- Microsoft Project
- Supervising Experience
- Contracts
About Company
General Dynamics Bath Iron Works is a full service shipyard specializing in the design, construction and support of Navy ships.
