Electrical Manager - Submarines

Electrical Manager - Submarines

Reports to:

Director of Production

Supervises:
All Electrical Department Personnel

• Implement all production schedules, monitor and maintain schedules through subordinate managers and supervisors, and explain and mitigate any variances in schedule.
• Manage electrical installation on vessels under construction.
• Proactively forecast manning needs to meet schedule requirements and to manage production costs.
• Prepare and oversee adherence to cost budgets, both vessel specific and overhead for department.
• Assure conformity to quality and accuracy requirements; track and review areas of non‑conformity and develop continuous improvement action plans.
• Implement Lean Processes, Continuous Improvement and Root Cause analyses, insuring foremen and supervisors are actively involved.
• Maintain project metrics (i.e. TAKT time, throughput and constraints) and daily update status boards.
• Implementation of 5S and survey reporting.
• Prepare and maintain CPI cost bridge.
• Update and maintain EAC for each vessel under construction.
• Provide input and work with Production Control to develop and improve build strategies as an active participant in Project Kickoff and Lessons Learned meetings.
• Ensure timely response to clear liens, cars, survey reports.
• Generate field change requests (FCRs), work package variances (WPVs) and request for materials (RFMs).
• Accountable for monitoring resource levels, distribution of resources to meet schedule demands, and assure that scrap levels are maintained at a minimal level.
• Assure the maintenance of safe working practices and good housekeeping in all areas and ensure Austal’s policies are being followed with respect to safety compliance.
• Accountable for ensuring all foremen under their control are complying to the Leadership Creed.
• Provide effective and timely feedback to foreman regarding quality, cost, delivery, safety.
• Oversees all timesheets are processed and allocated daily.
• Review and recommend pay rates in conjunction with foremen.
• Review and approve all department assessments (30, 60 and 90 day, annual and apprentices) and coach subordinate managers as to how to provide effective performance feedback.

• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in shipbuilding or comparable production manufacturing industry required.
• 5 years electrical experience required.
• 5 years of mid to upper level management experience of a department of 150+ required.
• Displays good working knowledge of planning and monitoring.
• Excellent knowledge of scheduling required.
• Demonstrated proficiency in CPI and SPI measures required.
• Knowledge of principles and standards of Earned Value Management System preferred.
• Strong knowledge of project scheduling methodologies and reporting, including manning requirements, effect of late‑starting tasks, late‑finishing tasks, 60‑day look‑ahead and physical percent complete.
• Knowledge of Lean methods and experience implementing these methods.
• Skilled as a change agent. (i.e. ability to model, influence and accelerate necessary and / or meaningful changes to work processes with the facility to manage toward a desired end result.)
• US citizenship or certificate of naturalization is required.

• Ensure a safe working environment is maintained for all employees.
• Provide and implement safety solutions for any safety insufficiencies.

Tools:
None

• Full discretionary authority to provide work direction to production staff directly and through subordinate managers.

• Full discretionary authority to establish and hold accountable for meeting performance standards.
• Full discretionary authority to correct and discipline, recommend discharges and transfers, and resolve employee issues and concerns.

Other department managers, foremen, supervisors, production employees, project management, suppliers, class surveyors and technical authorities.

• Must have the ability to bend, squat, stoop, crawl, and kneel.
• Perform prolonged standing.
• Ability to turn head from side to side and about the vertical axis.
• Ability to turn body at the waist from side to side and about the vertical axis.
• Lift/push/p…