Superintendent, Cranes & Rigging

General Dynamics - Bath Iron Works; Bath (GA); On-site; USD 133,000 - 169,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical & dental insurance

401(k) retirement savings plan

Flexible spending accounts/HSAs

Life and disability insurance

Company-paid holidays

Paid time off (PTO)

Health coaching

Job summary

General Dynamics - Bath Iron Works in Bath, ME is seeking a strategic leader to oversee crane operation and yard rigging across the shipyard. You will report to the Director of Outfitting Trades and drive safety, staffing, and performance improvements.

Responsibilities include guiding technical execution, managing personnel moves, and ensuring contract compliance, with a focus on cost, schedule, and quality in a complex shipyard environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in manufacturing, construction management, engineering or equivalent experience required.
• Advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum 10 years of rigging/crane operating experience in shipbuilding or manufacturing environment.
• Minimum 10 years of supervisory experience.
• Solid foundation in labor contract administration.
• Strong administrative, interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic departmental based technical and resource management for crane operation and yard rigging across shipyard areas.
• Lead safety initiatives to improve workplace safety and culture of continuous improvement.
• Manage trade staffing to meet needs and ensure staffing aligns with EACs.
• Oversee trade cost and schedule performance and Earned Value Management reporting.
• Implement and monitor labor contracts to ensure fair and consistent application.
• Provide technical guidance and training to assist managers and represented employees.

Skills

Leadership

Safety leadership

Training & development

Team collaboration

Continuous improvement

Project execution

Operations management

Education

Bachelor's degree in manufacturing

Construction management

Engineering

Advanced degree (preferred)

Tools

SPMTs

Transporter

TTS system

Earned Value Management (EVM)

Job description

Job Description

We offer a competitive salary for this role, with an expected range of $133,000 – $168,600/yr. The final offer will depend on your experience, skills, and overall qualifications. General Dynamics – Bath Iron Works also provides a variety of benefits including medical & dental insurance coverage, 401(k) retirement savings plan, flexible spending accounts/HSAs, life and disability insurance, company paid holidays, paid time off (PTO), health coaching, athletic trainers, employee assistance programs and onsite health services.

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 EAC’s.
• 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, FLS’s, 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 POC’s 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

• Bachelor's 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.