Project Coordinator II PDSS - SDCA

Austal USA•San Diego, CA

3d•$73,142 - $103,318•Onsite

About The Position

The Project Coordinator II PDSS - SDCA is responsible for managing assigned 4E packages and DD250 items from planning to execution, ensuring work aligns with schedules and production targets. This role provides coordination and guidance to functional project leads to ensure efficient vessel construction, focusing on milestones, cost, and schedule performance. The position involves coordinating and resolving craft-specific production work sequence conflicts and may require managing repair efforts in various offsite locations with potential for significant travel (40-50%). The coordinator will maintain a daily presence to monitor safety, housekeeping, work progress, and staff performance, manage labor and subcontractors, conduct craft meetings, and coordinate with the scheduler for the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS). Key responsibilities include validating status reporting, ensuring compliance with quality procedures, contract requirements, and regulatory guidelines, and maintaining communication with the Project Lead for status updates and corrective actions. The role also involves monitoring resource requirements, validating rework and lessons learned processes, preparing Statements of Work (SOW), and proactively identifying and resolving issues on the deck plate to ensure work progresses as planned. Performs other duties as assigned and complies with company policies.

Requirements

Five (5) + years’ experience in a shipbuilding, ship repair or similar construction and manufacturing industrial type environment.
Ability to read and interpret shipbuilding contracts and specifications.
Ability to read and interpret regulatory body and classification society guides, rules, and regulations.
Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings and data while navigating effectively with applicable software.
Ability to utilize and interpret relevant cost and schedule data reports including having a familiarity of scheduling software (Microsoft Project, etc.).
Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint).
Ability to efficiently validate, interpret and understand task scheduling or work sequencing.
Ability to use and interpret relevant cost and schedule data and use applicable software associated with these reporting functions.
Ability to understand schedule-reporting tools and be proficient in maintaining and validating schedule related data.
Ability to work independently with little supervision and take initiative in all aspects of the position duties.
Willingness to work irregular and extended work hours as needed.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
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.
Must be able to obtain and maintain TWIC partner or prime shipyard(s) and Navy Base access credentials.

Nice To Haves

Shipyard repair experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Manage and assume responsibility for assigned 4E packages and DD250 items from planning to execution while providing appropriate work status updates.
Ensure the work in progress is in accordance with the published schedule sequence and that production schedules are reasonable and achievable.
Provides coordination, guidance, and direction to the functional project leads to ensure that the work performed enables successful and efficient construction of the vessel with focus on milestone achievements and cost and schedule performance.
Coordinate, mediate, and resolve craft specific production work sequence conflicts related to constraints that effect performance to cost and schedule.
Manage repair efforts in various offsite locations, with potential for offsite travel in excess of 40-50%.
Maintain a daily presence regarding the work in progress to monitor safety, housekeeping, work progress, staff performance and continuous management of Austal labor and/or subcontractors executing work.
Conduct craft meetings and participate in meetings as deemed appropriate by Project Lead.
Coordinate with scheduler to lay out planned work in the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) all check point and test requirements.
Perform validation of status reporting against the actual work being performed to ensure accuracy of reporting functions.
Ensure compliance with quality procedures and documents while maintaining OQE in support task completion documentation.
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 Lead to report status and concerns and have the ability to initiate and follow through with required variance analyses and associated corrective action plans.
Monitor and validate resource requirements for actuals against planned work in progress and project labor requirements to completed defined task efforts while managing to the task agreed.
Monitor and validate use of rework and lessons learned processes and initiatives to promote continuous improvement.
Prepares SOW which depict an accurate detailed work scope necessary for task bid request and task execution requirements including all exit criteria to successfully close out the task.
Proactive deck plate management to identify and resolve resource, material and information issues in AOR to allow work to progress to plan.
Performs other duties as assigned by management.
Complies with Austal’s employee handbook general guidelines, company procedures and policies.