Jobs at Bollinger Shipyards LLC

Lead the shipyard subcontracting function: develop outsourcing strategy, negotiate complex subcontracts, manage subcontract portfolio financials, lead and develop a team, ensure compliance, drive supplier development and continuous improvement, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to support program delivery.

Support an ERP implementation by assisting data cleanup and migration, executing and documenting test cases, mapping and analyzing business processes, maintaining project documentation, coordinating tasks and meetings, and participating in training to learn ERP and implementation best practices.

Coordinate scheduling, allocation and utilization of mobile equipment (cranes, forklifts, vehicles) to support shipyard production. Manage equipment readiness, inspections, supplier relationships, budgets, cost tracking, utilization analysis, and preventative maintenance. Communicate daily plans and resolve equipment conflicts to minimize downtime and support program schedules. Maintain logs/systems and attend production meetings; support invoice approvals as required.

Supervise weekend day-shift trades crews in a shipyard, ensuring safe, on-schedule production that meets quality and environmental standards. Assign and monitor work, manage timekeeping, discipline and performance, coordinate materials and schedules with management, and enforce collective agreement, safety and quality procedures. Maintain crew training, certifications and efficient work practices.

Maintain, troubleshoot, repair, and manage marine electronics and automation across a fleet. Oversee planned maintenance, parts procurement, vendor coordination, inspections, refits, and provide technical guidance to vessel crews and shoreside staff. Participate in budgeting, standardization, on-call repairs, and regulatory compliance.

Lead design, coordination, and delivery of leadership, safety, and workforce development programs for trades supervisors. Partner with operations, HR, safety, unions, and vendors to identify skills gaps, improve onboarding, manage training budgets, and measure program effectiveness to boost productivity, safety, and capability across Victoria Shipyards.

Perform production engineering for new ship construction: develop build strategies, design-for-production and lean processes, perform material/process analysis, support dimensional control and scheduling, mentor junior engineers, transfer supplier/industry innovations, and create standards and training to improve productivity and reduce waste.

Serve as functional analyst for Oracle EPM (FCCS/EPBCS) and Oracle Financials: maintain functional specs, support month-/year-end processes, administer security, execute testing and integrations, triage sustainment tickets, run requirements/gap analysis, and partner with finance and consultants to improve processes and controls.

Perform process engineering for new ship construction: develop pre-production strategy, PBOMs, schedules, and process improvements; monitor industry best practices; mentor and train subordinate planners and support production engineering to improve productivity and reduce waste.

Lead end-to-end delivery of industrial capital and operational improvement projects, managing budgets, schedules, risks, contractors and cross-functional teams. Drive facility upgrades, equipment installations, and process improvements while ensuring safety, quality, and stakeholder alignment. Support long-term capital planning and continuous improvement, monitor project performance, and apply lessons learned to optimize future delivery.

Apprentice metal fabricators/shipfitters assist in layout, cutting, shaping, fitting and temporary fastening of steel plate and structural components for shipbuilding. Work includes marking, aligning, tack welding, operating shop machinery, preparing templates, installing accessories, and following blueprints while adhering to safety and Seaspan standards. Role supports apprenticeship schooling toward Red Seal certification.

Lead and develop a data engineering and integrations team to design, build, and operate a secure, scalable Azure cloud data platform. Own architecture, CI/CD, pipelines, data products, governance, and stakeholder delivery while managing risks, priorities, and performance metrics.

Support Quality during vessel construction by entering, maintaining, validating, and reporting quality data across Excel, SharePoint, Power BI, Aras, Co-Console, and IFS. Maintain dashboards, trackers, inspection records, and metrics; compile recurring and ad-hoc reports; support defect tracking and documentation control; coordinate with stakeholders and assist continuous improvement of data management processes.

Lead engineering and technical delivery for marine outfitting systems, ensuring designs meet safety, customer, class, and regulatory standards. Provide technical authority, review and approve designs, perform inspections, prepare calculation packages, set maturity targets, mentor engineers, and coordinate with suppliers and contractors to resolve complex integration and manufacturing issues.

Lead corporate and indirect tax functions including preparing tax returns and provisions, SR&ED claims, deferred tax calculations, tax forecasting and planning, compliance with federal/provincial/foreign authorities, tax accounting controls, systems integration, audit coordination, and advising senior management on tax strategies.

Lead and supervise steel fitting and welding work at Victoria Shipyards, directing charge-hands and workforce to meet schedules, budgets, quality and classification society standards. Ensure safety and regulatory compliance, allocate manpower, coordinate with superintendents and procurement, train and discipline staff, oversee equipment maintenance, monitor project progress, and drive process and productivity improvements.

Serve as strategic HR advisor to operations in a unionized manufacturing environment. Lead labour relations, performance management, investigations, attendance management, change initiatives, and coordinate with HR Centres of Excellence to align people strategies with operational goals.

Provide senior naval architecture expertise for ship repair, refit, conversion, and drydocking projects. Review technical data, perform stability and structural analyses, develop repair and docking plans, produce engineering deliverables (drawings, calculations, reports, specifications), conduct surveys and inclining activities, support production and drydock operations, manage technical risk, and coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure compliant, safe, and efficient project execution.

Lead and supervise an application development team to design, build, test, deploy, and support enterprise applications. Drive troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, integrations, QA/test strategy, process improvements, stakeholder engagement, and large-scale project delivery while mentoring developers and coordinating resources between support and projects.

Lead internal communications team for a 20-month term: develop multi-year strategy, produce internal content (presentations, speeches, intranet, newsletters), advise senior leaders, run change-management campaigns, manage intranet and communication channels, oversee events and budget, and collaborate across stakeholders to engage shipyard and marine group employees.