Director of Shipyard Facilities Operations & Asset Reliability

The Director of Shipyard Facilities Operations & Asset Reliability owns infrastructure uptime, asset lifecycle performance, and execution of capital programs across the shipyard. This role ensures that critical production-enabling assets operate reliably while delivering capital projects and yard expansions safely, on schedule, and within approved budgets.

Responsibilities:

• Own reliability and availability of all production-critical assets, including cranes, hoists, and heavy lift systems, shiplifts, docks, transfer systems, and waterfront infrastructure, electrical power distribution, water, compressed air, and utilities, buildings, foundations, pavements, and fixed facilities.
• Establish and enforce a disciplined preventive and predictive maintenance strategy to prevent unplanned outages.
• Ensure corrective maintenance is prioritized, executed safely, and escalated appropriately when scope exceeds routine maintenance.
• Partner with production leadership to align maintenance windows with operational demand.
• Implement reliability metrics and use data to drive decisions.
• Ensure new assets are onboarded with defined maintenance plans, documentation, and ownership.
• Oversee asset condition assessments, lifecycle planning, and replacement strategies.
• Own asset inventory accuracy, labeling, auditing, impairment review, and disposition decisions in coordination with Finance.
• Capital Programs & Yard Expansion:
• Own end-to-end execution of capital programs, including yard expansion and facility build-out, major equipment purchases and infrastructure upgrades, utility capacity expansions and site development.
• Lead annual capital planning and prioritization aligned with production forecasts and long-term strategy.
• Ensure projects are scoped, budgeted, approved, and executed in accordance with governance and delegation of authority.
• Establish clear project controls for cost, schedule, scope, and risk.
• Ensure projects transition cleanly from execution into operations with defined ownership and maintenance plans.
• Coordinate closely with civil engineers, designers, contractors, and regulators to deliver compliant facilities.
• Interfaces with permitting authorities and ensure capital work complies with environmental, safety, and building requirements.
• Financial & Program Controls:
• Own capital and facilities budgets, including forecasting, tracking, and variance management.
• Ensure appropriate classification and governance of maintenance, OPEX projects, and CAPEX investments.
• Review estimates, commitments, and EACs to prevent cost overruns.
• Drive value by balancing repair vs replacement decisions using lifecycle cost analysis.
• Ensure timely closeout of projects and accurate capitalization of assets.
• Cross-Functional Integration:
• Partner with Manufacturing, Engineering, EHS, and Quality to ensure infrastructure supports safe, efficient execution.
• Align asset reliability priorities with throughput, schedule, and vessel delivery commitments.
• Serve as escalation point when infrastructure risk threatens production continuity.
• Team Leadership:
• Lead facilities, maintenance, reliability, and capital project teams.
• Set clear expectations for execution discipline, technical rigor, and accountability.
• Develop internal capability in maintenance planning, reliability engineering, and project management.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Facilities Management, Construction Management, or related technical discipline.
• 10+ years experience in heavy industrial, shipyard, manufacturing, or infrastructure-intensive environments.
• 5+ years leading facilities, maintenance, reliability, or capital programs.
• Demonstrated experience owning uptime of critical industrial assets.
• Proven track record delivering capital projects on time and on budget.
• Strong understanding of preventive, corrective, and predictive maintenance systems, asset lifecycle management and reliability principles, capital project controls and financial governance.
• Experience interfacing with engineering, finance, contractors, and regulators.
• Ability to balance short-term operational risk with long-term capital strategy.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting shipyard, port, or waterfront industrial operations.
• Background in reliability engineering or asset management programs.
• Experience with large mobile cranes, ship lifts, docks, or heavy industrial utilities.
• Familiarity with environmental, building, and infrastructure permitting.
• Lean, Six Sigma, or continuous improvement experience.
• PMP or equivalent project management certification.