Foreman Shipfitter

Ingalls Shipbuilding•Pascagoula, MS

10h•Onsite

About The Position

The Foreman Shipfitter supervises, assigns, coordinates, and evaluates semi-skilled and skilled trades personnel according to their skill, experience, and job knowledge. The role trains employees to improve the quality and quantity of their work, recommends training to enhance skills and productivity, and assists in developing training procedures. The foreman translates broad 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 qualified trades staff while monitoring job and budget performance across all shifts. It also oversees manufacturing, installation, operation, testing, and process operations with significant financial impact on company performance, and performs management duties related to safety, quality, cost, and schedule. Leaders are expected to promote accountability in a professional, civil environment through fairness, consistency, respectfulness, and transparency. Applicants should review the Shipbuilding Management Charter 0001 and relevant policies and procedures before applying. The foreman must be willing and able to work any assigned shift. This position is onsite and is not eligible for telework; relocation assistance is not available.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or apprenticeship; alternatively, a high school diploma and four years of combined manufacturing, shipbuilding, trades, or military experience; or an associate degree in a trade/technical field and three years of relevant manufacturing, shipbuilding, trade, or military experience.
Must 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 three unexcused absences in the last 180 days.
Internal candidates must not have any safety DANS resulting in a disciplinary layoff in the last 180 days.
Internal candidates must not have more than two total DANS in the last 180 days, excluding lost tool incidents.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree or apprenticeship; alternatively, a high school diploma and six 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 skill, experience, and job knowledge.
Train employees to improve the quality and quantity of work performed.
Recommend training to enhance employee skill and productivity, and assist in developing training procedures.
Translate broad strategies into practical action plans and ensure employees are trained to perform them.
Ensure compliance with technical requirements, including drawings and procedures.
Supervise qualified trades staff and monitor job and budget performance across all shifts.
Oversee manufacturing, installation, operation, testing, and process operations with significant financial impact on company performance.
Perform management duties related to safety, quality, cost, and schedule.
Lead with fairness, consistency, respectfulness, and transparency in a professional, civil environment.
Review and follow the Shipbuilding Management Charter 0001 and applicable policies and procedures.