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Project Manager Ship Repair

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Hybrid
San Diego, CA
118K-201K Annually
Senior level
Hybrid
San Diego, CA
118K-201K Annually
Senior level
The Project Manager leads the Ship Management team in coordinating ship repair projects, ensuring safety, quality, and cost goals are met. The role involves managing production efforts, training staff, and facilitating cross-departmental communication.
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Job Description
What's it like working for an innovative company that takes on some of the world's most important challenges? Rewarding.
BAE Systems is hiring a Project Manager to support our Ship Repair business in San Diego, CA. This role will lead the Ship Management team, which coordinates and directs the work of trades and subcontractors to perform work for the entire availability.
The PM has the responsibility to efficiently meet project safety, quality, schedule, and cost goals, while leading multiple area managers. You will work with multiple departments and processes to support production efforts across entire repair team to support work execution, problem solving, planning, and process improvement. You will be directly responsible for the efficient execution of work items and the conditions of the areas in which you are assigned. Performance for this position will be evaluated based on the success of the overall availability. Performance will be measured against predetermined safety, quality, schedule, and cost standards. This position reports directly to the Director of Operations.
The Ship Management team works directly with production, and all other support trades to eliminate obstacles in the way of project success.
As a Project Manager, you will:
  • 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.
  • Serve as a direct point of contact for all activity on the ship and have responsibility to direct production labor and support resources in order to successfully navigate the entire avail.
  • 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.
  • Coordinate 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.
  • 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).
  • Understand and adhere to NAVSEA Standard Items (Repair) and commercial standards as required.
  • Address conflict in a collaborative working environment and support meetings and tasking as assigned by Ship Manager/Director of Operations.
  • Support other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Required Education, Experience, & Skills
  • Bachelor's Degree and 6 years of work experience or equivalent experience. May consider candidates with fewer years experience for a more junior position.
  • 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.

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills
  • PMI Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) #LI-Onsite #LI-JR1

Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $118095 - $200762
Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. However, 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.
Employee Benefits: At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.
About BAE Systems Platforms & Services
BAE Systems, Inc. is the U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems plc, an international defense, aerospace and security company which delivers a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support services. Improving the future and protecting lives is an ambitious mission, but it's what we do at BAE Systems. Working here means using your passion and ingenuity where it counts - defending national security with breakthrough technology, superior products, and intelligence solutions. As you develop the latest technology and defend national security, you will continually hone your skills on a team-making a big impact on a global scale. At BAE Systems, you'll find a rewarding career that truly makes a difference.
The Platforms & Services (P&S) sector under BAE Systems, Inc does the big stuff: the armored combat vehicles, naval guns, missile launchers, and ship repair...just to name a few. Our employees take pride in the work they do and why they do it. They are on the front lines every day, building our products to protect the lives of those who serve. We may be biased, but we think P&S does some of the coolest work around, and we think you will too.

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Navsea Standards
Project Management

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