Welding Engineering Unit Manager

Welding Engineering Unit Manager The Weld Engineering Unit Manager leads a diverse team of welding engineers, technicians, and specialists within the Welding Engineering department, ensuring alignment with company and customer objectives related to the fabrication of NOG components. This role is responsible for managing staffing, welding processes, quality, safety, schedule, and cost to achieve high-quality weld fabrication. This supervisory role requires collaboration across departments to optimize weld process efficiency, reduce defects, and support future welding technology initiatives. Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to: Leading a diverse group of welding engineers, technicians and other specialists within the Welding Engineering (W.E.) department to achieve all company and customer commitments as related to the fabrication of NOG components. Ensuring the W.E. unit is properly aligned and supportive of all company objectives as it relates to the development, staffing, execution and overall quality of the weld process and associated operations. Coordinating and controlling welding engineers' job functions to provide uniform, coordinated direction of the company's short and long range goals. Assurance of staffing levels to support administrative and shop management needs including personnel proposal, requisitioning, interviewing and hiring activities. Working collaboratively and taking the lead in assuring welding equipment and welding cells can be operated in a safe manner free of injury. Reviewing engineering drawings to assure they provide for economic fabrication of highest quality. Working within and outside department to pre-plan future needs to assure the timeliness of equipment, weld development, weld and welder qualifications, training, execution, testing and any other aspect of the job associated with the weld overall process. Assurance of technical welding engineering support for shop welding surveillance for all welding processes. Working collaboratively with other departments, as required, to identify funding needs, constraints, equipment/parameter problems for assuring the timely completion of the weld process relative to the overall schedule needs. Working collaboratively with Operations to define the weld process capability, weld process robustness and weld process limitations to establish expectations associated with the efficient deposition of the weld, while achieving first time quality. Working to decrease (or "improve") weld and associated non-weld repair rates through an active and collaborative management style. Working within W.E. unit and department to specify welding processes and procedures to be employed through preparation of weld data sheets in accordance with contract requirements. Initiating welding procedure qualifications to support contract requirements. Evaluating welding performance through analysis of the Weld Defect Report. Initiating necessary corrective actions after considering economic, scheduler and quality impact. Responding to shop welding and welding metallurgical problems to effectively resolve the problem and yet maintain work within contractual obligations and corporate commitments. Identifying areas for improving overall weld operation efficiency through a collaborative understanding of the equipment, set-up, personnel, training and weld process capabilities vs the weld process robustness to assure first time quality. Providing technical justification for DSRs (Degradation of Specification Reports) and RARs (Repair Approval Requests) on all contracts. Identifying the risks associated within the contract and within shop operations associated with welding and working collaboratively to resolve concerns. Coordinating and supporting proposal activities to assure all aspects of Safety, Quality, Schedule and Cost can be achieved and a gap analysis with guidance where risks exist. Organizing and supporting the preparation of technical weld related comments to documents referenced in proposals. Participating in negotiations, as required, with customer to facilitate fair and equitable solutions assuring schedule, technical and price commitments are achievable and have the appropriate risks identified and accounted for. Establishing, analyzing, and negotiating programs or technical changes that result from customer inquiries or internal recommendations. Working within department and with associated departments to establish weld wire needs, quantities and special qualification requirements for individual proposals and overall NOG Contracts. Negotiating welding related technical requirements at proposal state and throughout contract term. Resolving customer concerns with respect to procedure qualifications and weld data sheets. Initiating actions for fabrication and testing of welding procedure qualifications. Interpreting the requirements of NAVSEA 250-1500-1, ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, and customer specifications related to welding to assure that all fabrication meets contract requirements. Participating in planning and evaluating welding research and development related to future program initiatives and managing customer workscopes that apply to future welding technology.