About this role
Req ID: 50676 Team: T54 TECHNOLOGY SVCS Entity: Newport News Shipbuilding US Citizenship Required for this Position: Yes Full-Time Shift: 1st Relocation: No relocation assistance available Virtual/Telework Opportunity: Yes - Occasional or hybrid telework available Travel
Requirements: No Clearance Required
No - Clearance Not Required to Start Salary Range: $136,000.00 to $171,000.00 The anticipated salary range represents the estimated base pay for this role.
Final compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors, and may vary from the posted range Meet HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding With more than 25,000 employees – including third-, fourth- and even fifth-generation shipbuilders – HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division is the largest industrial employer in Virginia. We’re the sole designer, builder and refueler of U.S. Navy nuclear aircraft carriers and one of two providers of U.S. Navy nuclear submarines. Our diverse and innovative team of professionals ranges from skilled trades to project managers, engineers and software developers to solution architects, technical subject matter experts, and system users. We collaborate together at the forefront of technology, manufacturing, and integration of the most powerful and survivable naval ships in the world.
Want to be part of the team? Apply today! We look forward to meeting you.
The Role Responsible for managing the 24x7x365 IT Production Operations team and Production Scheduling team for the scheduling, monitoring, and troubleshooting of thousands of daily automated IT jobs across the NNS organization, ensuring that business processes run efficiently and reliably. Oversees the planning and execution of projects, upgrades and maintenance that impacts normal routines. Additionally, provides strategic direction for automation initiatives, maintains compliance with regulatory standards, and collaborates with other IT and business leaders to align automation strategies with organizational goals.
Duties and
Responsibilities
- People - Maintain succession plans to avoid loss of critical skills through persistent recruitment and succession planning.
- Technical Oversight - Work with team members to identify issues early and provide mitigations to ensure projects stay on track. Act as an advisor to Managers and Directors regarding project complexities and risks and the mitigation of issues. Ensure team members are informed and leveraging documented standards, strategies, principles, policies, procedures. Get involved in projects as a technical resource as required and may participate part time as a project resource or lead key transformational initiatives as required.
- Communications –Provide professional and technical status and communication to customers and all levels of management as needed.
- Responsible for overseeing the quality control process of team tasks and for communication with customers and job owners. Accomplishes staff results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, and counseling employees; developing, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, procedures, and productivity standards.
- Building and maintaining run books and other tools supporting the automation processes.
- Creating and maintaining 24x7x365 team work schedules
- Working with Service Desk Management for supporting major incident communications.
- Leadership – Manage an operations and a scheduling team in providing non-recurring and recurring service delivery to NNS while ensuring customer satisfaction. Direct the scheduling and balancing of tasks while recognizing and utilizing the talent available on the team. Act as project manager for a task when there is not a Project Manager assigned. Provide coaching to your team that focuses on development as well as getting the job done.
- Innovation – Foster and empower innovation and lead the team to learn from both failures and achievements.
Encourage innovative ideas and approached and help people to implement them.
- Monitor technology trends and emerging standards for new technology opportunities, and integrating new technologies into the production operations environment.
- This role will have technical generic classifications engaged in information systems design, development, and analysis encompassing one or more of the following areas of technical expertise: programming, PC application analysis, software development, systems integration, and related disciplines.
- Must Have Bachelor's Degree and 6 years of progressive technical experience in research, engineering and design; Master?s Degree and 4 years of relevant experience One of the following may be used as an equivalent to Bachelor's Degree for Information Technology Related Positions Only: NNS Apprentice School graduate Navy Nuclear Power School (NNPS) graduate Associate's Degree or other formal 2 year program and 2 years of relevant exempt experience or 4 years of relevant non-exempt experience Military Paygrade E-5 or above military experience High School/GED and 4 years combined of Manufacturing, Shipbuilding, Trades, Military experience or other relevant exempt experience High School/GED and 8 years combined of Manufacturing, Shipbuilding, Trades, Military experience or other relevant non-exempt experience A relevant professional certification can be substituted for a Bachelor's Degree.
Nice to Have
- Hands on experience with Control-M or similar workload automation tool
- Experience managing a 24x7x365 team
- Knowledge of Artificial Intelligence capabilities and trends
- Excellent interpersonal, written and team collaboration skills
- Relationship building skills - Maintain relationships with vendors, customers and peers for all provided services
- Willingness to support mission critical systems
- Strong leadership skills Why HII
We build the world’s most powerful, survivable naval ships and defense technology solutions that safeguard our seas, sky, land, space and cyber. HII’s diverse workforce includes skilled tradespeople; artificial intelligence, machine learning (AI/ML) experts; engineers; technologists; scientists; logistics experts; and business administration professionals. Recognized as one of America’s top large company employers, we are a values and ethics driven organization that puts people’s safety and well-being first.
Regardless of your role or where you serve, at HII, you’ll find a supportive and welcoming environment, competitive benefits, and valuable educational and training programs for continual career growth at every stage of your career. Working at HII is more than a job - it’s an opportunity to build a future. We offer comprehensive benefits including: medical, prescription drug, dental and vision plan choices, on-site health centers, tele-medicine, wellness resources, employee assistance programs, savings plan options (401K), financial education and planning tools, life insurance, tuition reimbursement, employee discounts, early childhood and post-secondary education scholarships, and more.
Some benefits may vary depending on your specific division or work location. Together we are working to ensure a future where everyone can be free and thrive. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.
U.S. Citizenship may be required for certain positions. Do You Need Assistance? If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Reasonable accommodations are considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only those inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this e-mail address. Additionally, you may also call 1-844-849-8463 for assistance. Press #2 for Newport News Shipbuilding.