Coatings Project Coordinator III

Austal•Mobile, AL

22h•Onsite

About The Position

This role provides coordination, guidance, and direction to functional leads, focusing on paint activities including inspection call outs, surface preparation, and paint application. The position emphasizes milestone achievement and cost and schedule performance. The Coordinator will take a lead role in training craft personnel on painting responsibilities in conjunction with Fit-Out management. They will coordinate, mediate, and resolve craft-specific production work sequence conflicts that affect painting of lockouts and spaces onboard ships. A daily presence is required to monitor safety, housekeeping, work progress, and staff performance. The role involves conducting and attending meetings, ensuring work aligns with the published schedule, and that production schedules are reasonable and achievable. The Coordinator will perform random validation of status reporting against actual work performed to ensure accuracy for Earned Value Management processes. They will ensure compliance with Quality procedures, contract requirements, and regulatory body and classification society guides, rules, and regulations. Daily communication with the Project Manager is essential for reporting status, issues, and initiating variance analysis and corrective action plans. The role also involves monitoring and validating resource requirements, rework, and lessons learned processes for continuous improvement, and supporting executive briefings, meetings, tours, and reporting as requested.

Requirements

Amp/NACE level 2 certification required.
Minimum of 8 years of shipyard experience in blasting and painting operations, with a minimum of 5 of those years in a management capacity.
Working knowledge of NAV-SEA 631, 009-32, and Coast Guard contract coating specifications.
Familiarity with the F718 data sheets for all marine manufactured coatings.
Familiarity with all blasting and painting equipment and inspection instruments required to perform any and all coating operations.
Proficiency in reading paint drawings for multiple contracts.
Microsoft Office proficient.
Ability to work independently and be self-motivated.
Willingness to work irregular and sometimes lengthy work schedule.
Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD clearance may be required.
18 years of age or older at time of application.
Able to provide proof of US Person Status.
No felony convictions of Theft/Deception or Violent crimes within seven years from disposition date.
No felony convictions of Drug crimes within three years from disposition date.
Willing to submit to a drug screen.
Willing to submit to a background check.

Responsibilities

Provide coordination, guidance, and direction to functional leads with focus on paint activities including inspection call outs, surface prep, and paint application with focus on milestone achievement and cost and schedule performance.
Take lead role in training, and teaching craft personnel assigned painting responsibilities in conjunction with Fit-Out management.
Coordinate, mediate and resolve craft specific production work sequence conflicts related to constraints that effect painting of lock outs and spaces onboard ships.
Maintain a daily presence regarding the work in progress to monitor safety, housekeeping and work progress and staff performance.
Conduct and attend meetings as required.
Ensure the work in progress is in accordance with the published schedule sequence and that the production schedules are reasonable and achievable.
Perform random validation of status reporting against the actual work being performed to ensure accuracy of reporting functions required to support Earned Value Management processes and requirements.
Ensure compliance with Quality procedures and documents with emphasis on all coatings related procedures.
Monitor and ensure compliance with the contract requirements.
Monitor and ensure required compliance with regulatory body and classification society guides, rules and regulations.
Maintain daily communication and interaction with the Project Manager to report status and issues and have the ability to initiate and follow through with required variance analysis and associated corrective action plans.
Monitor and validate resource requirements for actuals against planned work in progress.
Monitor and validate use of rework and lessons learned processes and initiatives to maintain and promote continuous improvement.
Support executive briefings, meetings, tours and reporting as requested by the Project Manager.