Welding Program Manager

Position Title:

Welding Program Manager

Work Location:

Chesapeake, VA - In Office

FLSA Status:
Full-Time, Exempt

REQ#

Summary of duties – Reports to Director of Operations. The Welding Program Manager is responsible for the technical ownership, implementation, control, and continuous improvement of the company’s welding program, which provides standardized welding processes, procedures, oversight, and support to both the shipboard systems integration, alteration, installation, and testing (AIT) sector and the Fabrication (Fab Shop) sector, including the fabrication of shipboard subassemblies, equipment foundations, and related structural and mechanical components.

Qualified candidates must be able to support multiple priorities in an evolving environment.

The Welding Program Manager develops, maintains, and administers the company’s welding procedure and welder qualification program in accordance with applicable customer requirements, military and commercial standards, codes, specifications, drawings, and contract requirements. The position ensures that welding procedures and welder qualifications are technically valid, properly documented, current, traceable, and applicable to the work being performed. Qualified candidates must be skilled with verbal and written communication and be prepared to interface daily with organizational contemporaries to ensure the successful achievement of company weld program objectives.

managing multiple priorities in an evolving environment

The position owns the welding procedure specification (WPS), procedure qualification record (PQR), welder performance qualification (WPQ), welder continuity, and associated welding documentation systems, including development, review, approval coordination, revision control, retention, and accessibility of records. The individual establishes and maintains the systems necessary to ensure that only appropriately qualified welders, approved procedures, and qualified welding processes are used for production work.

The position has the authority and responsibility to identify welding activities that do not meet applicable requirements and to recommend or initiate corrective action, including withholding approval for use of an unqualified procedure, unqualified welder, or otherwise noncompliant welding process.

Specific description of duties –

• Ensure welder qualifications and continuity records accurately reflect individual qualifications and remain current in accordance with governing requirements.
• Oversee procedure qualification and welder performance qualification testing, including coordination with qualified testing laboratories, inspectors, and customer representatives as required.
• Create and modify Quality Management System (QMS) documentation.
• Identify systemic welding-program deficiencies and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Maintain objective evidence necessary to demonstrate welding program compliance during customer, regulatory, classification society, government, and internal audits.
• Interface with Quality Assurance, Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, Supply Chain, Contracts, Program Management, and customer representatives on welding-related matters.
• Provide technical input during source inspections, customer inspections, government oversight, and audits involving welding activities.
• Establish metrics and reporting mechanisms for welding qualification status, continuity, procedure utilization, weld defects, rework, nonconformances, audit findings, and other indicators of welding program performance.
• Evaluate new welding technologies, processes, equipment, and materials for potential application within the fabrication operation.
• Support estimating, proposals, and new-work reviews by identifying welding…