Shipyard Planner
Colonna's Shipyard is seeking a Shipyard Planner. The Shipyard Planner is responsible for developing, maintaining, and monitoring production schedules for ship repair projects to ensure work is completed safely, efficiently, and on time. This role collaborates with Project Management, Production, trades, and subcontractors to plan workflow, track progress, analyze manpower and resource requirements, and identify schedule impacts or delays. The Planner supports project execution through detailed scheduling, reporting, production analysis, and continuous coordination while promoting a strong safety culture and compliance with all shipyard and customer requirements.
The position is located onsite in Norfolk, VA and will often require hours beyond a standard work week with flexible schedule availability to support production/operations. Position may require limited travel.
Job Description:
- Supports the Production Department and Project Management teams by gathering, analyzing, preparing and submitting data necessary to develop and maintain project schedules.
- Progress and Analyzes production work / provides assessment of each work item progress.
- Prepares and submits reports to convey data / prepare production reports.
- Collaborates with project managers, trades, and subcontractors to create trade level plans for production work.
- Manage and maintain all phases of the production schedule; develop, recommend, review, implement, and maintain the tools and techniques necessary to analyze the impact of proposed schedule changes.
- Ability to track changes and assess their impact on the schedule.
- Determine status of assigned projects / update and maintain project information data such as progress, manpower budget, and project performance.
- Draw up master schedule to establish sequence and lead time of each operation to meet completion dates according to production forecasts or customer work specifications and drawings.
- Participate in production project models and craft planning schedule review.
- Translate specifications, drawing orders into a sequential work schedule.
- Analyze production specifications and capacity data to determine manpower resource requirements.
- Plan and schedule workflow for each department and operation according to previously established production sequences and lead times.
- Expedite operations that delay schedules and alter schedules to meet unforeseen conditions.
- Draw up research and development as required by upper management.
- Act as an internal educator on progressing/scheduling methods and systems.
- Requires regular contact within the department and with other departments within the company and external agencies/vendors/contacts/customers, outside of the company supplying or gathering information.
- Practice and confirm that all employees, subcontractors and visitors are in compliance with Safe Operations requirements to include the use of PPE.
- Set a personal example by always wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) per company guidelines with no exceptions and correcting/documenting others who are not in compliance.
- Ensure that all Company Safe Operations initiatives and procedures are executed to include the safe planning of work, safety briefings, near-miss documentation and discussions, housekeeping practices.
- Promote Safe Operations culture participation at the deck plate level.
- Other duties may be assigned as workload dictates.
Qualifications:
- Must have a HS Diploma or equivalent and at least ten (10) years of experience in planning, scheduling and/or production efforts.
- Must have experience in computerized planning and resourcing.
- Experience with scheduling and manpower/resource loading.
- Strong PC skills to include Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook), and Microsoft Project or similar scheduling software.
- Full understanding of NAVSEA Standard Items 009-60, 009-111, 009-68.
- Must have excellent organizational, problem-solving, and negotiation skills as well as excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Must be able to handle multiple projects independently and meet tight deadlines.
- Must be able to obtain base or shipyard access, if required.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experien…
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