Overview

Hepburn and Sons is seeking a motivated, career and customer-oriented, Baseline Availability Work Package (BAWP) Manager for Amphibious Class Ships to join our team in Portsmouth, VA supporting the Surface Maintenance Engineering, Planning, Program Command. This effort maintains, monitors, and refines Class-wide and Individual-Ship Maintenance Plans for all non-nuclear surface ships to ensure material readiness for the projected service life, develop life-cycle strategies to address system upgrades, and fully implement the Class Maintenance Plan into each surface ship's maintenance schedule and availability planning process. This position is headquartered at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, VA.

Working at Hepburn and Sons LLC

Working at Hepburn means applying a passion for meaningful work with intellectual rigor to help solve the leading issues of today. We honor handshakes as rigorously as contracts. We keep trust at the forefront of every decision we make and customer we serve! We believe there is no greater principle in business than that of building a solid foundation of trust. We hold one another to the highest levels of integrity and ethics. We cherish every opportunity given to us by our clients. We believe in collaboration, mutual respect, open communication, and opportunity for growth.

Responsibilities

• Attend all maintenance planning and coordination meetings
• Work with all members of the Maintenance Team to ensure CMP requirements are scheduled, tracked and completed in accordance with periodicities established by the respective Technical Warrant Holder
• Utilize Maintenance and Ship Work Planning (M&SWP), Validation Screening and Brokering (VSB) system, and Open Architectural Retrieval System (OARS) to ensure the CMP database is accurate
• Track all SURFMEPP Maintenance and Availability Reporting Tool (SMART) milestones associated with the established end-to-end process outlined in the Joint Fleet Maintenance Manual
• Work with members of the maintenance team to ensure SMART milestones are accomplished on-time and provide immediate feedback to management for any milestone that will become overdue
• Plan and conduct comprehensive studies and reviews of subjects that often are several organizational levels deep:
  • Studies may involve a major management function (e.g., manpower, ship maintenance planning, etc.) or significant segments of several major management functions
  • Activities involved in the studies typically are engaged in major development, repair, maintenance, and overhaul, such as systems command field activities, private shipyards, fleet and industrial activities, etc.)
  • Subjects cover various phases of surface ship platforms/systems and organizations supporting surface ship maintenance and modernization planning programs
• Develop criteria and analytical approaches in support of planning and executing BAWPs, which identify planned maintenance, repairs, modernization work, production support requirements and services authorized for accomplishment during scheduled depot availabilities
• Provide advice to management and ensure lessons learned and customer feedback information is considered in the development and modification of BAWP schedules, products and management processes
• Attend division meetings to participate in formulating and presenting management improvement plans and strategies

Qualifications

• Greater than 7 years relevant professional experience and no more than 10 years relevant professional experience
• Ability to follow direction and work within a team
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Outlook, Word, Power Point, Access)
• Able to obtain and retain a security clearance

Preferred Requirements

• Navy maintenance experience
• Database Management System experience with 3M OARS, VSB and/or NDE
• MS Office experience with particular focus on intermediate MS Excel skills
• Experience with Ship or Industrial Repair Maintenance
• Metric and Database Development

Physical Requirements

• Lift and carry 50 pounds
• Extensive time in stationary position
• Climb and descend stairs
• Be able to move around the office
• Operate standard office equipment
• Be able to communicate professionally
• The person in this position frequently communicates with co-workers, management and customers, which may involve delivering presentations