Job Type

Full-time

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Travel

None

Security Clearance Required

None

Job Description

POSITION SUMMARY

Supervise the activities of the Quality Assurance Dept. Has overall responsibility of the processes needed for the Quality Management System (QMS) to function and ensure they are established, implemented and maintained.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES MAY INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: Because Eastern Shipbuilding is continually growing to meet the needs of our customers, your duties and responsibilities may be different than described.

• Regular attendance at work and the ability to work flexible hours, including overtime, weekends, and holidays.
• Comply with Company, federal, state, and local safety, ethics, and environmental rules, regulations and policies while performing duties.
• Reports to top management on the performance of the QMS and any need for improvement.
• Ensure the QMS conforms to customer requirements.
• Promotes the awareness of customer requirements throughout the organization.
• Ensures the quality records are established and maintained to provide evidence that the QMS is being followed.
• Oversee inspection teams to ensure high productivity and technical integrity.
• Coordinate production building managers and customer inspection teams.
• Provide technical assistance and expertise to QA Inspectors.
• Create, document and implement inspection criteria and procedures.
• Maintain active role in internal continuous improvement.
• Investigate and correct deficiencies related to customer requirements, specifications, and Company standards.
• Coordinate production activities to meet the quality standards.
• Ensure all inspections and tests are complete and meet customer requirements.
• Maintain welder performance qualification records.
• Develop, implement and maintain welding procedures specifications.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

Directly and/or indirectly supervise employees assigned to the QA Dept. Responsibilities may include

interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work. Travel is primarily local during the business day, although some out-of-area and overnight travel may be required.

Job Requirements

REQUIREMENTS

Education/Experience: Bachelor’s degree in Marine Engineering, Quality Assurance or a related field plus eight to ten years’ experience in ship construction. Three to five years supervisory experience desired. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered. Must be able to manage a team of highly skilled inspectors efficiently, effectively, and safely. Requires knowledge of shipbuilding terminology, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards, U.S. Coast Guard classification rules and shipbuilding standards. Extensive knowledge of shipbuilding production processes and methods preferred.

Skills: Intermediate level Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook Express. Ability to read and comprehend written technical specifications, drawings, blueprints and schematics. Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from supervisors and employees. Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships and preserve interdepartmental relationships. Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure.

Behavioral Attributes: Integrity, ethics, flexibility/adaptability, initiative, interpersonal skills, attention to detail, safety conscious, and multi-tasking. Maintain the confidential integrity of details pertaining to Eastern Shipbuilding Group.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: Ability to obtain and maintain a valid drivers’ license.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to communicate. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing throughout the workday. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. The employee must be physically and medically qualified to wear all required personal protective equipment, as prescribed under Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards. The employee must be able to work above ground at heights of a minimum of 50 feet aloft and/or working from scaffolding and/or man-lifts while working with machinery; in confined spaces and withstand extreme heat and cold in an outside climate or confined space.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The employee may be exposed to the risk of electrical shock, moving mechanical parts, vibration, fumes, airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, continual loud noise, and other hazards found in a heavy industrial shipyard environment. Rigorous compliance with safety procedures, policies, and personal safety equipment requirements is therefore mandatory.

We are equal opportunity/affirmative action employers, committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under state or local law.