Superintendent II - Commercial and Government Machining
Purpose:
Steel America, a division of Colonna's Shipyard, is seeking a Superintendent II to support operations at our site Norfolk, VA.
Superintendent II will oversee key aspects of the project's progress within the Inside Machine Shop. The Inside Machine Shop handles various types of machining, propulsion shafting, and job shop/one-off projects. This role supports the determination of needed personnel, equipment, materials, and facilities, assists in establishing basic priorities and work sequences, and helps maintain a balanced workload among subordinates by properly distributing work projects and allotting manpower, equipment, and materials. The Superintendent II will also act as a
Machining Subject Matter Expert (SME), for Colonna's Shipyard and Steel America's Fabrication Shop providing deep, practical machining knowledge to the project planning process. This role will proactively prevent problems before they reach the shop floor.
Job Description:
The Superintendent II supports the management of repair, maintenance, and modifications of machinery, propulsion shafting, and other equipment or facilities assigned to a specific region or operating company. This may include projects allocated in support of Colonna's Shipyard Inc. and Steel America's Fabrication specific projects within the Inside Machine Shop.
Key responsibilities include:
- Acting as a go-to expert to ensure every machining aspect of complex projects is planned correctly from the first sketch to the final cut.
- Being involved early in the project planning process with project managers, superintendents, and leadership from Fabrication and CSI.
- Advising on designs and materials, and determining critical timelines for machining tasks.
- Scrutinizing blueprints and specs with a machinist's eye to spot potential issues, suggesting design changes for efficiency, and confirming material allowances.
- Directly managing the machining portions of project budgets, handling specialized material orders, and approving tooling and supply requisitions.
- Assisting in the oversight of shop-based machining and repair projects, which includes supporting the development of budgets and schedules, contractor selection, contract management, and interfacing with regulatory agencies.
- Assisting in the development and adherence of maintenance and repair budgets, as well as controlling expenditures within a designated project's budget.
- Preparing and presenting status reports to customers, project teams, and management, often in collaboration with the Superintendent.
- Supporting the Superintendent in supervising timely and cost-effective maintenance, repair, modification, and refurbishment projects of various machined components and equipment.
- Monitoring contractors during projects and reporting progress and issues to the Superintendent.
- Conducting on-site surveys to determine machining, maintenance, and repair needs and providing findings to the Superintendent or Director of Machining as needed.
- Exercising independent decision-making authority within established guidelines set by the Superintendent or management.
- Assisting with the overall responsibility for schedule adherence.
- Working closely with assigned Supervisors to ensure they understand their responsibilities within the machine shop, escalating concerns to the Superintendent as needed.
- Collecting and reporting physical progress each week for their jobs to the Superintendent.
- Working closely with representatives from various classification societies and governing agencies, as applicable to machining and propulsion shafting projects, under the Superintendent's guidance.
- Working independently to complete assigned responsibilities, escalating issues as appropriate.
Qualifications:
- Must have at least six (6) years of experience in shipyard operations, with a focus on machined and mechanical components.
- Must have at least four (4) years of experience in a machine shop or heavy industrial repair environment in a management-type capacity, running multi-trade crews on commercial and/or naval components.
- Must have a clear understanding of contract value and current costs.
- Must have strong communication skills, both written and oral, with the ability to act as a spokesperson. The ability to translate complex machining details into clear reports for all stakeholders is critical.
- Must have experience with Microsoft applications such as Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project.
- Must have experience in a machine shop environment, specifically with large-scale machining, propulsion shafting, and one-off projects, is preferred.
- Must have strong planning and project management skills.
- Must have an improvement and achievement-oriented mindset.
- Must have a thorough knowledge of machining processes, including various types of machining, and repair processes for large components like propulsion shafting.
Physical Requirements:
- Must be able to lift, carry and transport heavy equipment and boxes. The exact weight requirements will be determined by the specific job, but no less than 20 lbs.
- Able to work on and climb ladders, work in extreme temperature environments, aboard ships, in shipyards, under industrial conditions and in confined spaces, including enter and moving through manholes.
- Able to perform other duties as required which may involve high heat, humidity, noise and dirty conditions.
- Frequent exposure to noise due to machinery and equipment.
- Employee is required to operate trucks, forklifts & man-lifts.
- While performing the duties of this job, you may frequently be required to stand, walk & sit; use hands or fingers; handle or feel; talk and hear. Occasionally required to reach with hands and arms, climb and balance, stoop, squat, kneel, twist and crawl.
- Work in extreme temperatures and conditions. At times you will work in areas that have less adequate ventilation
- Frequent use of respirator.
Respect, Pride, Truth, Family - These are our VALUES and the guidelines that make us a leader in our industry. We are pleased and confident in stating that our skilled employees are among the most respected experts in the ship repair industry.
Colonna's Shipyard Inc., and its divisions, are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.
Additionally, Colonna's Shipyard provides a variety of benefits to support your best health, wellness, and future, to include medical/dental/vision options, company paid disability insurances, 401k with match, legal services, as well as company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO). |
Colonna's Shipyard
paid time off, paid holidays, 401(k)
Aug 07, 2025