Highlights
This role reports to the DDG 1000 Waterfront Execution Manager in Brunswick, Maine, and offers the opportunity to work on one of the Navy's most advanced ship classes while influencing performance, quality, and long-term support strategies. In this role, you'll help ensure seamless execution of contracted work by bridging communication between the Navy customer, our Planning Yard teams, and partner organizations.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Chula Vista, CA |
| Industry | Aerospace and Defense |
| Salary | $119,100–$150,900 Per Year |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1826 |
| Website | https://www.gdbiw.com/ |
Description
Job Description
We offer a competitive salary for this role, with an expected range of $119,100-$150,900. The final offer will depend on your experience, skills, and overall qualifications. General Dynamics - Bath Iron Works also provides a variety of benefits including medical & dental insurance coverage, 401(k) retirement savings plan, flexible spending accounts/HSAs, life and disability insurance, company paid holidays, paid time off (PTO), health coaching, athletic trainers, employee assistance programs and onsite health services.
Join our team supporting the DDG 1000 program as a key on‑site representative in San Diego, California. In this role, you'll help ensure seamless execution of contracted work by bridging communication between the Navy customer, our Planning Yard teams, and partner organizations. This role reports to the DDG 1000 Waterfront Execution Manager in Brunswick, Maine, and offers the opportunity to work on one of the Navy's most advanced ship classes while influencing performance, quality, and long-term support strategies.
What you''ll do:
Project Execution
- Serve as the primary on‑site liaison between the Planning Yard and Navy customer for DDG 1000 class activities.
- Ensure contract requirements are delivered to standard as outlined in the BIW BOS and DDG 1000 contract.
- Align priorities and milestones across internal teams, Navy stakeholders, and vendors to keep cost and schedule performance on track.
- Support requests for proposals and internal technical and program reviews.
- Travel occasionally (typically 1-2 weeks at a time) for program reviews, conferences, and project-related meetings.
Collaboration & Communication
- Identify and help resolve potential execution challenges by partnering with engineering, design, and program teams.
- Build strong, positive relationships with Navy counterparts and Planning Yard teams to support issue resolution and identify growth opportunities.
- Provide clear, data-driven updates and status reports to leadership and stakeholders.
Continuous Improvement
- Promote BIW Business Operating System (BOS) principles to enhance productivity.
- Recommend and support process improvements that strengthen safety, quality, and cost efficiency.
Required/Preferred Education/Training
- Associate degree in a technical or business discipline and/or 10 years of experience related to surface combatant design, construction, repair, or alteration required.
It is highly recommended that your resume and job application be thorough and up-to-date, and that they speak to the requested skills & abilities.
Required/Preferred Experience
- Minimum 10 years combined experience in Marine Engineering or Design, Navy or Fleet lifecycle support focused on maintenance and repair.
- Familiarity with Planning Yard operations preferred.
- Experience with DDG 1000 class ships and Navy waterfront maintenance environments preferred.
- Strong communication, analytical, interpersonal, and computer skills, with the ability to work independently and within a team.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and business communication tools.
- Proven ability to manage shifting priorities and meet deadlines.
- Leadership skills and the ability to foster teamwork preferred.
This position requires you to be able to obtain a government security clearance. You must be a U.S. Citizen for consideration, and you must be able to obtain an interim security clearance within the first 45 days of hire. For more information regarding the security clearance process, please visit Investigations & Clearance Process (dcsa.mil).
About Company
Shipbuilding has been a way of life along the Kennebec River in Bath, Maine, since 1762, when the sailing ship Earl of Bute was launched on the site of present day Bath. The Bath Iron Works (BIW) shipyard, located on the west bank of the Kennebec, just south of downtown Bath, is the namesake of an iron foundry established in 1826.
Brevet General Thomas W. Hyde, US Army (Ret) took over the foundry in 1865, following service with the 20th Maine Regiment during the Civil War. Nearly two decades later, he incorporated his diversified marine business interests as Bath Iron Works, Limited in 1884, before expanding into shipbuilding with the acquisition of the Goss Marine Iron Works in 1888.The first BIW-built vessel was a coastal passenger ship named Cottage City built for the Maine Steamship Co. Since the completion of Hull #1 in 1890, BIW has been awarded more than 425 shipbuilding contracts, including 245 military ships (mostly destroyers and frigates for the US Navy) and over 160 private yachts and commercial vessels. BIW became a wholly-owned subsidiary of General Dynamics in September 1995.
In terms of modern US Navy surface combatant programs -- ones where BIW ships are still in service -- the Lead Ship construction contract for the Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG 7) Class of guided missile frigates was awarded to BIW in 1973, and 24 of these surface combatants were delivered over the next 15 years.
In 1982, the Navy selected BIW as second-source shipbuilder for the Ticonderoga (CG 47) Class of AEGIS guided missile cruisers. The company went on to win contracts for eight of these warships, delivering the final one in 1993. In 1985 BIW won the competition for detail design and construction of USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) , the Lead Ship for the Navy's newest, most capable class of AEGIS guided missile destroyers. BIW has delivered the lead ship and 30 follow ships, with delivery of the final follow ship under the most recent contract expected in 2011. The US Navy has announced that it will acquire further Arleigh Burke class vessels during the next decade.
Under General Dynamics' ownership, BIW solidified its industry leadership position by teaming with the City of Bath and the State of Maine to support a long-term capital investment plan. With the first phase of modernization completed in 2001, BIW began building ships in its new state-of-the-art facility. These improvements ($320 million so far) enable the company to offer unprecedented productivity, quality and affordability to our customer. Further applications of lean manufacturing techniques and advanced modular construction are planned, and the yard has switched to 3D computer-aided design for its latest ships. BIW is building the first of the DDG 1000 class of destroyers, Zumwalt, using these advanced technologies.
BIW is a yard with a history, and a bright future. Throughout Navy circles - and especially with their current and former crews - it's generally recognized that 'Bath Built Is Best Built' a phrase first heard in the early 1900s, and every bit as true today as when it was first said.