Project Coordinator III PDSS - SDCA

Austal USA•San Diego, CA

3d•$92,779 - $134,649•Onsite

About The Position

This role provides coordination, guidance, and direction to functional project leads to ensure successful and efficient construction of vessels, with a focus on milestone achievements and cost/schedule performance. The Project Coordinator III will engage in proactive deck plate management to identify and resolve issues affecting performance, maintain a daily presence to monitor safety, housekeeping, and work progress, and conduct craft meetings. Responsibilities include managing 4E packages and DD250 items, coordinating with schedulers for the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), ensuring work aligns with schedule sequences, validating status reporting, and ensuring compliance with contract requirements, quality procedures, and regulatory guidelines. The role also involves monitoring resource requirements, validating rework and lessons learned processes, preparing SOWs, and acting as a Compliance Champion.

Requirements

Fully competent in industry related crafts or specific discipline
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
Minimum of five (5) years’ experience in a shipbuilding, ship repair or similar construction and manufacturing industrial type environment that includes supervision or management experience
Ability to utilize and interpret relevant cost and schedule data reports including having a familiarity of scheduling software (Primavera, Microsoft Project, etc.)
High School Diploma required.
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
Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint)
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
Candidates must be able to obtain and maintain required Security Clearance
Candidates must be able to obtain and maintain TWIC partner or prime shipyard(s) and Navy Base access credentials
18 years of age or older.
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 bend, squat, stoop, crawl, and kneel
Withstand periods of prolonged standing
Ability to turn head from side to side and about the vertical axis
Ability to turn body at the waist from side to side and about the vertical axis
Lift/push/pull up to 75lbs on an occasional basis
Lift/push/pull up to 20lbs on a frequent basis
Must have the ability to climb in a safe manner (climbing as a minimum includes stairs, scaffolding, ladders, and ramps)
Ability to work at heights above 12’ while working from ladders, scaffolding and/or man lifts
Able to work at a variety of levels (ex. waist, eye, overhead)
Demonstrate the ability to safely and appropriately use required tools and equipment
Demonstrate good balance while working on uneven surfaces and maneuvering obstacles
Possess sufficient handgrip and coordination to carry and operate tools and equipment
Ability to utilize personal protective equipment (hard hat, safety glasses, steel toed shoes, goggles, respirator, safety harness, safety line, flotation gear, etc.) safely per OSHA standards
Ability to withstand cold and hot temperatures
Ability to enter 18” x 36” openings and work in confined spaces for prolonged periods of time
Able to respond to verbal and audible sounds/commands
Able to utilize adequate visual skills
Ability to fully extend the arm while reaching overhead, reaching out, reaching to the side, and reaching down
Ability to perceive attributes of an object/material such as size, shape, temperature and texture by means of receptors in the hands and fingers

Nice To Haves

Four-year college degree in Engineering or Management preferred
Repair experience preferred
The potential for offsite travel can potentially be in excess of 40-50%.

Responsibilities

Provide coordination, guidance, and direction to the functional project leads to ensure that the work being performed enables successful and efficient construction of the vessel with focus on milestone achievements and cost and schedule performance
Proactive deck plate management to identify, mediate, and resolve craft specific production work sequence, material and information issues related to constraints that effect performance to cost and schedule
Maintain a daily presence regarding the work in progress to monitor safety, housekeeping, work progress, and performance and continuous management of Austal labor and/or subcontractors executing work
Conduct craft meetings and participate in/lead meetings as deemed appropriate by Project Lead
Manage and assume responsibility for assigned 4E packages and DD250 items from planning to execution while providing appropriate work status updates
Coordinate with scheduler to lay out planned work in the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) including all checkpoints and test requirements
Ensure the work in progress is in accordance with the published schedule sequence and that production schedules are reasonable and achievable
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 is 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
Monitor and validate use of rework and lessons learned processes and initiatives to promote continuous improvement
Prepares SOW’s 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, material and information issues in AOR to allow work to progress to plan
Act as a Compliance Champion for the organization and work to promote a culture of compliance throughout the organization.
Support business unit Tier 1 Compliance Lead in responsibilities as required.
Assume duties as Project Lead when assigned Lead is unavailable
This position may be required to manage repair efforts in various offsite locations.