Program Manager III - South Korea

Description

Who We Are

Vigor, a Titan Company, is a values-driven, diversified industrial businessoperating in six locations with approximately 1,800 people in Oregon, Washington and Alaska. Built around a collection of powerful, unique assets and differentiated capabilities, Vigor excels at specialized shipbuilding, ship repair and handling important, complex projects in support of energy generation, our nation’s infrastructure and national defense.

With deep respect for people and the planet, Vigor strives to be a positive, regenerative force for good – environmentally, in the lives of our employees and in the community. We have built a positive culture that honors the work we do, the workers who do it, and the world we live in.

Salary Range

Seattle: $184,000 – 204,0000

Portland: $177,000 – 196,000

Position Summary

As a Program Manager III, this position is primarily to lead and oversee Vigor’s ship repair operation in South Korea consisting primarily of Military Sealift Command Program.Travel between the United States and South Korea is required. The Program Manager will have full authority and responsibility for project profits and losses. Leads and integrates all aspects of a portfolio of ship repair projects within the Korea program, ensuring coordinated execution, resource alignment, and overall program performance. The individual provides strategic bid selection and coordination with local contractors and is the primary customer interface throughout the project. Manages the local project team members and leverages Vigor’s subject matter experts and expertise in the application of local labor and materials to achieve timely, better-than-bid results and assure customer satisfaction.

This position establishes and leads strategic partnerships with South Korean shipyards, including Samsung Heavy Industries, to create a scalable and competitive delivery network. Must be capable of working with a high degree of self-reliance and autonomy to establish Vigor standards and processes in a new arena with yet undiscovered challenges and opportunities.

Essential Functions And Major Responsibilities

(This list is not intended to detail all aspects of the assigned work but is representative of the job’s overall responsibilities.)

• Ensures that worker safety and environmental concerns are constantly monitored, and that problems are effectively resolved.
• Establish working relationships with South Korean shipyards and contractors. Understand their capabilities and provide informed recommendations on facilities use and selection of partners.
• Set up a centrally located Vigor Office and travel to various shipyard facilities in southern Korea where the work will be performed.
• Understands OCONUS (Outside Continental United States), Government security requirements and document control to ensure compliance in the Vigor office and in each facility where work is performed.
• Plans, estimates, negotiates, staffs, directs the work, and reconciles final billings on assigned projects. As the top decision maker on the project, resolves any internal issues that arise over the productive, safe management of the project.
• Lead for business development in the far east. Monitors the market dynamics in AOR7 and provides guidance to strategically bid projects to generate consistent work for South Korean subcontract partners as well as Vigor’s overall repair operation in South Korea.
• Meets or exceeds customers' realistic expectations for quality, productivity and safety on projects, and manages customer relationships through any changes in the scope and price of the project to assure continuing customer satisfaction and profitable project closure.
• Resolves issues on a day-to-day basis with customers, owners, Port authorities, and other interested parties.Represents the Company fairly and consistently when interacting with customers.
• Works closely with the Contracting & Estimating Department to estimate, plan, execute and settle the projects. Provides all necessary documentation for bill settlement and negotiation of change orders in a timely manner.Advises Contracting Department of opportunities to increase profits and avoid losses.
• Interprets specifications, plans project sequencing and coordinates the various phases of the project to prevent delays and avoid rework. Ensures that change order requests and CFRs are properly written and approves them before providing them to the Project Management team.
• Writes timely and accurate documentation of each job and contributes accordingly to final written specifications.
• Confers with contractor supervision and project management staff, and project inspectors and suppliers of materials, to resolve repair problems and to improve repair methods.
• Plans, coordinates and directs production activities for assigned projects.Through contractor supervision, assures appropriate daily project staffing.Audits subordinates’ reports and monitors job progress to ensure that manpower utilization and allocation meets job requirements and bid expectation. Makes appropriate changes as necessary.
• Prepares periodic management reports on work progress, materials used, costs, and adjusts work schedules as indicated by reports. Ensures adherence to the work process.
• Maintains effective working relationships with both Korean contractors, customers, and contract administrators. Where production complaints or disputes occur within the project, directly or through managers, supervisors or other resources, assure that issues are resolved efficiently and with minimal disruption to the project.
• Leads the project team in a postmortem review of each completed project and assures complete documentation and dissemination of all lessons learned in order to capture best practices and to avoid repeating mistakes. Ensures that lessons learned on own and other projects are captured in the preplanning phase of new projects.
• Assesses and documents overall work performance of contractors and direct reports by close of project, providing feedback to same.Ensures performance documentation by managers or supervisors of all assigned project personnel.Clearly identifies strengths and weaknesses of project team members and recommends specific development activities.
• Remains technically competent, ensuring personal skills remain current with changes in the field and consistent with Vigor's productivity improvement initiatives.
• The Program Manager is actively involved at an operational level in reviewing the relevant costs data, quality and capability for performing work internally versus subcontracting to outside suppliers and vendors. The incumbent is responsible for the decision to make or buy a product or service for the particular project under their direction after thorough analysis of relevant information.
• The Program Manager plays an active role in managing or providing oversight for the subcontractor and/or vendor performance on the project, including setting expectations for such groups. It is critical to the overall profitability of the project that the Program Manager actively monitors and drives the performance standards of all subcontractors/vendors and holds them accountable.
• Monitors job progress and uses earned value management techniques to identify problem areas and forecast costs. Reports on project performance.
  
  

Job Scope

The role operates within general parameters but must use sound judgment and independent decision making when carrying out job responsibilities. Has the ability to influence and recommend modifying existing protocols. Typically manages projects that range from $1M - $50M and that can last 16 weeks or longer. The incumbent is held accountable for the overall guidance and consistency across projects to ensure profitable performance of the work is achieved. The incumbent has profit and loss responsibility for his/her projects as well as, a critical role in securing revenue for the Company. Failure to meet the expectations of the customer could result in significant loss of future business.

Supervisory Responsibility

The position manages as many as ten Vigor employees either directly or through subordinate supervisors.The role operates both as senior oversight but considering this is a new venture the job will require a higher level of hands-on supervision. The incumbent’s operational range must be able to reach from details to strategic levels.

Interpersonal Contacts

The Program Manager coordinates their efforts with managers and supervisors at all levels in the business unit and with support services managers, who will be in the United States.The incumbent must be effective at influencing and collaborating with a wide range of Korean subcontractor partners not in the direct line of authority to perform successfully.The position is the sole in-person representative of Vigor Marine Group through formal and informal interactions with the customer.

Knowledge Skills And Abilities

• Previous experience with Military Sealift Command or United States Navy maintenance, repair and overhaul.
• Previous work experience on government vessels in East Asia.
• Western Pacific experience is preferred.
• Demonstrated financial savvy as it applies to labor-intensive projects.
• Strong knowledge of ship systems as relates to how they interact and construction/repair sequencing. Uses a systems approach to work planning and execution.
• Demonstrated ability to orchestrate the judicious use of labor in a multi-craft, unionized, complex work environment.
• Strong leadership skills including conflict resolution, real-time decision-making, high performance expectations and the capability of inspiring the team to meet them.
• Strong customer relationship skills in terms of achieving customer satisfaction through their buy-in to business and project realities rather than through diluting project profitability.
• Excellent contract, specification and print interpretation skills.
• Effective communication skills that span the customer and project population. Skilled at acquiring knowledge through asking the right questions.
• Expertise in maximizing revenues and profits on projects through the art and science of ongoing negotiation.
• Understands and can leverage a "siege mentality," including identifying and nurturing the key informal leaders who can help keep things moving when other means fail.
• Strong entrepreneurial outlook with a clearly demonstrated sense of ownership over both the process and the results.
• Demonstrated hands-on approach to problem-solving and knowing the ship and the project.
• Capable of effectively handling multiple priorities on own with little or no supervisory guidance.
• Ability to positively influence results outside of his/her direct lines of responsibility.
• Assists with overall management of the Ship Repair project management department.
  
  

Education And/Or Experience

• BS in a technical discipline, or a relevant amount of experience, is required. An advanced degree is preferred in a technical discipline associated with ship repair such as marine engineering.
• Minimum ten (10) years of progressively more complex work experience that demonstrates in-depth ship repair and production knowledge.
• A minimum of ten (10) years of project management experience, including at least one "large" project is required.
• The critical criterion is specific, demonstrated success in planning, staffing, coordinating and profitably executing multi-trade, extensive, labor-intensive, multi-phased projects.
  
  

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES AND REGISTRATIONS:None required.

Physical Demands

Work is conducted in a dynamic, fast-paced shipyard with moderate to loud noise levels from production activity in the shipyard. The individual will be required to be in production areas in yard and onboard ships. They must be able to walk to and from job sites. The person must be able to climb inclined stairways and vertical ladders; to enter confined areas and tanks; to work at heights. They may be required to work more than 8-hour shifts and weekends. The incumbent must be able to frequently bend, squat, crawl, twist and may be required to lift up to 50 pounds. There will be local travel and international travel (including air travel) up to 20% of the time with notice. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Work Environment

While in production areas will be exposed to all weather conditions, noise, dusts and odors.Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This role is with a federally contracted employer and is subject to regulations that restrict employment to US Persons only (i.e. US Citizens, lawful permanent residents, legally recognized asylees and refugees, and persons protected under INA). Successful job candidates will be asked to provide documentation of their US Persons status.

Vigor Industrial LLC and its wholly owned subsidiaries are drug, smoke and vape-free workplaces. Prospective employees must pass a drug and alcohol test and background check as pre-employment screening.

Vigor Values

Vigor expects all employees to enhance the atmosphere in which they work by living the Vigor Values every day.

Truth:We seek the truth, and we speak the truth

Responsibility:We act on what we know is right

Evolution: We seek mastery, and adapt to a changing world

Love:We care about the people we work with, and the world we live in

At Vigor we offer a generous benefits package that includes:

Medical

RX

Dental

Vision

Life

AD&D

LTD

STD

EAP

Discretionary bonus

Tuition Reimbursement

FSA (Medical, Childcare, Transportation)

10 paid holidays

PTO

401(k)

Vigor and its wholly owned subsidiaries are committed to inclusion and diversity by providing equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veterans, age, genetics, the presence of a physical or mental condition or disability that can be reasonably accommodated, or any other protected class under relevant laws in the locations we operate. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions and can be requested with Vigor’s Human Resources Department.

In addition to federal law requirements, Vigor complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination and non-retaliation in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, benefits, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.