Career Development, Category Management, Communication Skills, Construction, Continuous Improvement, Detail Oriented, DoD Clearance, Leadership, Maintain Compliance, Manufacturing, Metal Manufacturing, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Military, Nondestructive Testing (NDT), Operations Management, People Management, Piping, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Safety/Work Safety, Sales, Security Clearance, Team Lead/Manager, Technical Support, Welding
Responsibilities for this Position
Operations Supervisor I
US-CT-Groton
Job ID: 2026-19453
Type: Full-Time
# of Openings: 2
Category: Management
EB Groton Shipyard
Overview
2nd Shift Operations Supervisor
The successful candidate must provide technical assistance and overall direction to a team of hourly representedemployees. Core to this position is the successful performance of the team's safety, quality, cost, schedule and continuous improvement.
Effective communication, leadership, creating a positive team environment with employees and peers is key to success for the selected candidate. This position of Operations Supervisor provides a platform to gain a working knowledge of various manufacturing environments and their relationships with other parts of Electric Boat business.This is an excellent opportunity for an engineer or experienced trades-personto advance into a career-building leadership position and gain invaluable experienceto support their career development.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Lead the activities of approximately 15 structural welders to support piping trades.
- Support hanger welding, visual inspection and sell NDT of piping hangers
- Primary point of contact to interface with engineering, ship's management, quality and other trade departments
- Lead the team to achievement of company goals for safety, quality, cost, schedule and continuous improvement
- Take ownership of team performance
- Develop new welders
- Ability to qualify and maintain visual inspection qualifications for completed welds (MDD-00948)
- Ability to learn to assign welding wire through AWPSS
- Interpret policies, procedures, SSPs, MDDs to ensure procedural compliance
- Promote and maintain a strong safety culture
Responsibilities
Skills:
- Have the abilityto read and interpretblueprints, procedures, and related reference documents
- Have the ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing with subordinates and supervisors
- Must be able to work all assignedshifts
- Must be able to work extended hours
- Must be able to go on road assignments as business needs dictate
- Applicant must obtain and maintain a DOD security clearance as a condition of employment
- Capable of reading, interpreting and putting into effect plans, procedures and instructions
- Good presentation skills and attention to detail preferred
- Proficientin MS Word, Excel and Power Point preferred
Qualifications
Required:
- High School Diploma or GED
Must meet one of the following:
- Minimum 1 year trade experience at electric boat
- Minimum of 3 yearcombined relevant experience and leadership experiencein a high-volume setting
- Minimum of 1 year EB experience and an Engineering degree in a related field
Preferred:
- College/technical school AS/BS degree
- 1 year welding, shipfitting, pipefitting experience
- 3 years of shipyard experience
- Previous supervisory experience
- Previous related Military/Navy experience
- Nuclear qualifications
- Knowledge of 688 and VIRGINIA class submarines
- Radcon qualifications
- Welding, metal fabrication, pipe fitting, NDT experience
- Building trades experience
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