Reports to the Planning Yard Design Section Manager.

• Responsible for the co-supervision of a large multi-discipline Design team.

Primary responsibilities include, but are not limited to: 

• Interfaces daily with internal and external customers.
• Ensures design tasks are completed to established schedule, cost, and quality parameters.
• Inputs weekly work order status.
• Regularly communicate progress on floor issues with Design team leadership.
• Reports design task cost, schedule, and quality progress at various weekly meetings.
• Monitors cost, schedule, and quality metrics to identify employee development opportunities.
• Performs root cause analysis and associated corrective action plans for identified design issues.
• Ensure tasks are completed with the required level of quality specified in the contract.
• Work with the Section Manager to evaluate workload requirements.
• Develops employee performance evaluations.
• Develops ROM and GAF design estimates.
• Ensure that WFM administrative duties are completed on time daily.
• Provide guidance and direction across the Team for Process, Policy and Technical issues.
• Administers the BMDA labor contract.
• Maintain visual status boards and conduct A3 Root Cause Corrective Analysis (RCCA’s) as prescribed by the BIW Business Operating System (BOS) guidelines.

Required:

• Bachelor of Science Degree in technical, business field or a BIW graduate Apprentice (Manufacturing or Design), or 6 years of job related experience.
• Proficient using Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Proficient in navigating within a Microsoft Access database.

Preferred: 

• AutoCAD training/experience.
• LEAN SIX Sigma training.
• Agile/SCRUM experience
• Programming experience.
• Microsoft Project experience.

Required:

• Ability to communicate effectively (verbal & written) with all levels of the company and customers.
• Excellent organizational and planning skills.
• Proven leadership skills.
• Proven ability to foster a constructive and motivated work environment based on teaming.
• Proven ability to work in a dynamic, fast paced, rapid response technical environment.
• Occasional weekend overtime supervision coverage will be required.
• Occasional travel may be required.
• Ability to obtain Security Clearance.
  • This position requires you to be able to obtain a government security clearance.  You must be a US Citizen for consideration and you must be able to obtain an interim security clearance within the first 45 days of hire.  For more information regarding the security clearance process, please visit Investigations & Clearance Process (dcsa.mil) 

Preferred:

• Familiar with ship specifications as related to design requirements.
• Working knowledge of the BMDA collective bargaining agreement.
• Working experience with Earned Value Management.
• Experience with Navy post-delivery Engineering and Design efforts.