Supervisor Coach

International Executive Service Corps; Newport News (VA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading organization in industrial supervision is seeking a Deck Plate Supervisor in Newport News, VA. The role involves coaching and mentoring supervisors to enhance productivity while ensuring adherence to safety and quality standards. Candidates must have a minimum of 10 years of supervisory experience within the shipbuilding industry, US citizenship, and a secret security clearance is required. The position offers a competitive salary range of $130K - $150K per year.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of Supervisory experience in an industrial environment within shipbuilding industry.
• Must be a US Citizen.
• A secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Provide deck plate supervisor coaching and mentoring to improve productivity.
• Set clear expectations for workers on work progress.
• Ensure supervisors lead workers to achieve target productivity.
• Attend meetings and provide coaching on attendance.
• Spend at least 4 hours a day on deckplate.

Skills

Supervisory experience

Coaching

Problem resolution

Communication

Job description

Job Description

Provide deck plate supervisor coaching and mentoring to improve productivity to required level and drive schedule adherence without compromising safety or quality:

Salary for this position is $130K-$150K per year. Position would be at Huntington Ingalls in Newport News, VA.

1. Setting clear and unambiguous expectations to workers for work progress to be achieved in ½ shift increments. Lead workers to ownership of output and outcomes.
2. Ensuring backup tasks are defined and expectations for backup tasks are in place if primary task(s) is(are) not able to make required progress.
3. Ensuring clear and unambiguous expectations are set for workers for rapidly communicating barriers and challenges for making required progress and for communicating progress on a half-shift by half-shift basis.
4. Ensuring supervisors can effectively lead workers to achieving target time on task and required progress and productivity.
5. Ensuring work site conditions are understood by the supervisor and ready for workers.
6. Ensuring work support is ready for work and workers, e.g., services, work instructions, tools, and equipment.

Coach supervisor on effective supervision of work in progress:

1. Coaching on how to increase supervisor’s deckplate presence and effectiveness of presence to ensure required progress is being made prior to it being unachievable. I.e., (1) there is no substitute for deck plate presence and direct observation of work in progress and (2) progress to be achieved by lunch must be achieved by lunch.
2. Coaching on problem resolution, e.g., resolution of problems with paperwork, tooling & equipment, with as-found conditions, and material.
3. Coaching on how to ensure work package documentation requirements are kept up with.
4. Identifying through direct observation opportunities to improve productivity, e.g., through better access to tools, equipment, and materials and following through on communicating to functional owners and ensuring they follow through.
5. Attend meetings with Supervisor. Provide coaching on how to prepare, how to listen, how to respond at meetings.
6. Be on deckplate When Supervisor is encumbered with mandatory tasks, e.g., time-and-attendance system tasks, that pull supervisor away from deckplate.
7. Spend at least 4 hours a day on deckplate.
8. Ensuring handoffs to successor and supporting trades are planned for and made without delay.
9. Ensuring work that is handed off to 2nd shift starts without delay and expected progress communicated and agreed upon.

Required Skills and/or Experience

Minimum 10 years of Supervisory experience in an industrial environment within shipbuilding industry.

Degree Requirements

None

• Must be a US Citizen
• A secret security clearance