Senior Shipbuilding Program Lead

CORE Group; Vancouver (WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Core Group Resources is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead major shipbuilding and marine construction projects from planning through turnover. You will own the scope end to end and coordinate engineering, planning, production, and quality to deliver programs on time and within budget.

The role demands strong leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and on-site presence in fabrication shops, docks, and vessels under construction, with a focus on cost, schedule, risk, and

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressively responsible project, program, production, engineering, or construction management experience.
• Experience in shipbuilding, marine construction, or defense manufacturing.
• Proven responsibility for major projects covering technical performance, cost, schedule, production, quality, and risk.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary or matrixed teams across engineering and operations.
• Strong understanding of vessel construction, including fabrication, outfitting, systems integration, testing, completion, and turnover.
• Experience building integrated schedules, budgets, forecasts, and execution plans, with a strong grasp of project controls, risk management, and change management.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, bills of material, contracts, and project performance data.
• Strong leadership, communication, negotiation, problem-solving, and executive presentation skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and project scheduling, ERP, or project-control systems.
• Comfort working in active industrial and shipyard settings.
• U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance may be required, depending on project assignment.

Responsibilities

• Lead assigned vessel, unit, or major project scope from planning through fabrication, outfitting, testing, completion, and turnover.
• Build and maintain integrated execution plans covering scope, schedule, resources, milestones, interfaces, acceptance criteria, and delivery requirements.
• Keep labor, materials, tooling, work packages, inspections, and testing aligned with the project schedule.
• Monitor cost, schedule, production progress, material availability, subcontractor performance, and remaining work.
• Manage budgets, forecasts, Estimate to Complete (ETC), and Estimate at Completion (EAC).
• Identify cost, schedule, technical, production, supplier, quality, and delivery risks, and put corrective or recovery plans in place.
• Evaluate scope changes and their impact on technical requirements, schedule, budget, production, and delivery.
• Lead cross-functional meetings that set clear priorities, responsibilities, milestones, and action items.
• Report project status, forecasts, risks, and recovery plans to senior leadership and key stakeholders.
• Coordinate technical and production interfaces between major vessel systems, work packages, and teams.
• Support configuration control, baseline management, earned value, variance analysis, and formal change control.
• Ensure projects meet all safety, quality, technical, contractual, and regulatory requirements.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional teams

Project scheduling

Cost management

Risk management

Vendor management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Naval Architecture, Marine Engineering, Engineering Technology, Project Management, Business, Operations, Construction Management, or a related field

Tools

Excel

ERP

Project controls

Job description

Core Group Resources is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead major shipbuilding and marine construction projects from planning through turnover. You will own the scope end to end and coordinate engineering, planning, production, and quality to deliver programs on time and within budget.

The role demands strong leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and on-site presence in fabrication shops, docks, and vessels under construction, with a focus on cost, schedule, risk, and