**Job Description** Jacksonville Careers | BAE Systems (https://jobs.baesystems.com/life-in-jacksonville) **Are you seeking a job with a company that is a top leader in its field, a Job where "Purpose Connects". BAE Systems may be the answer to your search.** BAE Systems Jacksonville Ship Repair is seeking an experienced, highly motivated **Fabrication Project Manager** to support our growing team in the company s expanding field of fabrication. The candidate will be responsible for overseeing and managing the technical project(s) and serves as a liaison between the customer, program management, project team, planning, craft management, quality, and other key stakeholders. Prepares detailed project execution plans and identifies technical and business resources needed. Reviews status of projects and budgets, manages schedules and prepares status reports. Assesses issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives. Provides technical and analytical guidance to project team. Facilitates the development of future opportunities by creating high level fabrication estimates and plans as an integral part of the proposal efforts on new work. Candidate will also model and demonstrate strong leadership in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion as well as ethics. Further, our Program Mangers act as leaders and initiators in Environmental and Safety, ensuring team compliance with all company & OSHA-regulated safety requirements/standards, and environmental regulations and permit requirements. Performance for this position will be evaluated based on the success of the overall project. Performance will be measured against predetermined safety, quality, schedule, and cost standards. Fabrication Project Manager will report directly to the Fabrication Program Manager. **Responsibilities** + Maintain safe working conditions and housekeeping of all areas of fabrication. + Develops solutions to complex problems, which require the regular use of ingenuity and innovation. Ensures solutions are consistent with organization objectives. + Participates in project proposal development and planning to determine period, funding limitations, and procedures for accomplishing project, staffing requirements, and allotment of available resources throughout various phases of project. + Produces project and portfolio management tools to enhance productivity. Works closely with Planning, Scheduling, and Finance to establish Earned Value controls for monitoring and tracking progress, status, and performance for each contract. Develops and analyzes metrics to drive behavioral changes and process improvements in cross-functional areas of planning, cost performance, and schedule performance to enhance profitability and long-term growth. + Responsible for change management including estimating growth and new work. + Communicates contract requirements, specifications, and customer expectations to all departments to ensure incorporation into the shipyard business plan for the project. + Conducts project team meetings as required to accurately determine the project status and plan and initiate action plans for success. + Integrates with the shipyard s Operational Excellence (OE) program. Interfaces with key OE leaders to share best practices and efficiency opportunities. Collaborates closely with planning managers, craft managers, Safety, Environmental, Quality Assurance and other functional leads to capture, assess, disseminate, and institutionalize lessons learned. + Interpret Engineering / Design plan requirements to develop a detailed build strategy. + Determine manufacturing process steps required to attain optimal workflow through all machining, assembly, welding, and quality control work center operations. + Develop high level schedules overseeing the workflow of the production and fabrication efforts. + Establish sequence and lead time of each operation to meet completion dates according to production forecasts or customer work specifications and drawing orders. + Analyze and address production issues in a timely manner. + Identifies and assesses project risks, issues, and opportunities, and develops resolutions and mitigations to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives. + Reviews status reports prepared by project personnel and modifies schedules or plans as required. + Prepares project reports to division and corporate management, highlighting shortfalls to plan adherence, which may need management attention. + Accountable for contract execution in compliance with all state and federal safety and environmental guidelines. + Supports other duties and responsibilities as assigned. **Required Education, Experience, & Skills** + Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Engineering, Welding, Project Management, Business Development, or similar field or equivalent combination of education and experience. + Strong planning and project management skills, with thorough knowledge of ship construction and steel fabrication processes and sequences. + Strong ability in reading fabrication blueprints, drawings, and other shipbuilding technical references. + Proficient in the fabrication of panels, sub-assemblies, outfitting, and erection of major units in fabrication work. + Must have strong communication skills. Regular requirements to use written and oral communication skills; interact with managers, staff, co-workers, and others encountered in the course of work; ability to compose materials such as detailed reports and work-related documents and communicate substantively about them either verbally or in writing; communicate interactively & make presentations effectively. + Experience in estimating steel fabrication projects. + Must be proficient with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook & PowerPoint). + Ability to work in a fast paced, high-volume production environment. + Ability to understand and translate site capabilities. + Must be physically and medically qualified to wear required personal protective equipment. + Must be U.S. citizen and must be able to pass both company and customer background checks. + Meet all required medical screening. + Must be able to obtain and maintain Defense Biometric Identification System "DBIDS" access card. **Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills** + 10 Years with HS + 8 Years with AA + 6 Years with BS + 4 Years with MS + Government/Commercial New Construction Shipbuilding or Ship Repair experience. + Experience in heavy steel fabrication or construction. + Experience in scheduling software Microsoft Project, Primavera, or Open Plan. + Technical writing experience. + PMI certified Project Management Professional (PMP). + Positive attitude, Team-oriented approach to problem solving. **Pay Information** Full-Time Salary Range: $102200 - $173700 Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience. Employee Benefits: At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20 hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics. **Fabrication Project Manager** **108107BR** EEO Career Site Equal Opportunity Employer. Minorities . females . veterans . individuals with disabilities . sexual orientation . gender identity . gender expression