FOREMAN PIPE

Huntington Ingalls•Pascagoula, MS

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Foreman Pipe supervises and manages Pipe department personnel and operations, with responsibility for safety, quality, cost, and schedule. The role assigns, coordinates, and evaluates semi-skilled and skilled trades personnel according to their skills, experience, and job knowledge. It trains employees to improve the quality and quantity of work, recommends training to increase employee skill and productivity, and helps develop training procedures. The foreman translates broader strategies into practical action plans and ensures employees are trained to carry them out. The position is responsible for compliance with technical requirements, including drawings and procedures, and supervises manufacturing, installation, operation, testing, and process operations with significant financial impact. It monitors job and budget performance across all shifts and performs additional management duties described in Shipbuilding Management Charter 0001. The successful candidate must demonstrate leadership through fairness, consistency, respectfulness, transparency, accountability, and professionalism, and must be willing and able to work any assigned shift.

Requirements

Meet one of the following qualification pathways: BS/Apprentice; high school education plus 4 years of combined manufacturing, shipbuilding, trades, or military experience; or an associate degree in a trade/technical field plus 3 years of relevant manufacturing, shipbuilding, trade, and/or military experience.
Demonstrate leadership through fairness, consistency, respectfulness, transparency, accountability, and professionalism in a civil work environment.
Be willing and able to work any assigned shift.
Internal candidates must have a superior attendance and disciplinary record.
Internal candidates must not have more than 3 unexcused absences in the last 180 days.
Internal candidates must not have a safety DANS resulting in a disciplinary layoff in the last 180 days.
Internal candidates must not have more than 2 total DANS in the last 180 days, excluding lost-tool incidents.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree or apprenticeship, or high school education plus 6 years of related trade experience.
Experience as a workleaderman and/or performing Supervisor Re-Rate duties.

Responsibilities

Supervise, assign, coordinate, and evaluate semi-skilled and skilled trades personnel based on their skills, experience, and job knowledge.
Train employees to improve the quality and quantity of work performed.
Recommend training to enhance employee skills and productivity, and assist in developing training procedures.
Translate broad strategies into practical action plans and ensure employees are trained to carry them out.
Ensure compliance with technical requirements, including drawings and procedures.
Supervise manufacturing, installation, operation, testing, and process operations with significant financial impact on company performance.
Monitor job and budget performance for all shifts.
Perform Pipe department management duties related to safety, quality, cost, and schedule.
Carry out additional management responsibilities described in Shipbuilding Management Charter 0001.