Front Line Supervisor, Electrical Maintenance

Job Description

Bath Iron Works is seeking a candidate to fill a Front Line Supervisor position in our Maintenance department. In this unique role you'll have exposure to our Navy customer and our exciting ships. The selected candidate will Plan, organize, and manage work for Electrical mechanics.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Ensure safe work conditions and adherence to safety requirements/regulations.
• Ensure construction schedule adherence and cost accounting.
• Ensure first time quality of all work accomplished.
• Assign, status, and manage work orders; coordinate operational schedules.
• Understand, support, and administer the union labor contract.
• Communicate with fellow supervisors to help achieve a smooth work flow and a high degree of productivity.
• Use electronic Time Accounting System (WFM) to maintain employees time, overtime, and work order charges on a daily basis.

Key Responsibilities

Safety Leadership:

• Enforce safety policies and procedures, with a focus on housekeeping and personal safety.
• Lead initiatives to enhance workplace safety and foster a culture on continuous improvement.
• Ensure team members complete all safety training assigned
• Ensure Jobs on task have been properly vetted with the appropriate level Job Hazard Analysis (JHA) highlighting the work hazards identified the assigned safety envelope.
• Ensure assigned crews are following House-Keeping Best Practices in their shops and at their assigned job-sites
• Enforce BIW’s PPE requirements

Project Execution:

• Prioritize Trade’s work to ensure the Plan of the Week (POW) projects are aligned with Production’s critical path activities, and to ensure the crews are working on the right job at the right time.
• Track the status of crew workload(s) involving Critical Equipment assets to monitor and reduce Out-Of-Service (OOS) time to minimize impacts to Cost, Schedule, Budget, etc.
• Track the status of assigned Preventative Maintenance (PM) workloads and work order’s completion status to enable intervention for planned downtime (and reduce unplanned outages).
• Responsible for maintaining and auditing all cost charging accuracy assigned crew and area(s) of responsibility.
• Coordinate with Production Department leaders to facilitate job scheduling, and track jobs to completion.
• Work with assigned Trade Planners to develop the POW and ensure job(s) are scheduled to resource capacity
• Actively participate in critical equipment root-cause analysis with the Facilities Reliability Engineer team, the Safety Department, and Environmental team, as appropriate.

Program Controls Management:

• Manage the overall execution of the Plan of the Week.
• Participate in efforts to improve Program Controls departmental efficiency and optimization.
• Set appropriate team expectations for completion of the POW goals.
• Ensure accountability of task and goal completion.
• Support Facilities Department metric(s) and established goals.

Training and Development:

• Drive training programs to ensure trade mechanics are trained for the tasks assigned.
• Ensure Procedures and Process Controls are well-documented and communicated to the personnel charged with executing the tasks.

Team Collaboration and Communication:

• Work cross-departmentally with multiple functions/organizations in effort to achieve Production goals.
• Collaborate with Project and Functional Managers to mitigate project/job execution delays.
• Partner with Facilities Engineering and Planning group to identify efficiency, cost savings, and reliability opportunities to minimize equipment downtime and mitigate interruptions to Production.

Continuous Improvement:

• Participate in Business Operating System (BOS) principles and productivity enhancements.
• Focus to critical equipment reliability opportunities.
• Focus on the quality of trade’s workmanship to ensure quality standards.
• Incorporate the Plan-Do-Check-Act model to ensure sustainment of the improvements established.

Required/Preferred Education/Training

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Graduate apprentice preferred.
• Master or Journeyman License preferred.

Required/Preferred Experience

Required:

• Solid knowledge of NFPA 70 as well as NFPA 70E
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Solid knowledge of N.E.C
• Work history of positive working relationships with peers.

Preferred:

• Five Years of direct supervision with Electrical Crews.
• Ten Years of Electrical experience in Industrial/ Maintenance positions.
• Experience in multi trade crews a plus.