Trade Manager (Welding)

Trade Manager (Welding) Job Highlights

Company Profile

Seaspan is an association of Canadian companies primarily involved in coastal marine transportation, ship docking/ship escort, ship repair/refit, and shipbuilding services. It also provides commercial ferry, shipyard, and bunkering services via affiliate companies such as Marine Petrobulk, Seaspan Ferries, Vancouver Drydock, Vancouver Shipyards, and Victoria Shipyards.

Job Profile

The company is looking for a Welding Trade Manager who will be responsible for the safe, productive, and efficient operation of all work performed by the welding department at Vancouver Shipyards.

Responsibilities include the planning and control of projects, ensuring that they are appropriately manned and supervised to meet schedule and customer requirements and that all work is carried out in accordance with shipyard safety, quality, and ISO standards and procedures.

The Trade Manager provides leadership and directions, ensuring that efficiency and quality levels are consistently maintained to successfully deliver required outputs.

Educational Qualification

• Applicants should have a College Degree or Trades Certification.
• Multi-ticketed is an asset.

Work Experience

• Minimum 4 years of supervisory and employee relations experience in a unionized environment.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in construction/project management in a heavy industrial environment, or advanced education in a related field with 6 years of related work experience.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Develops and monitors labour and material budgets, and periodically reports on cost performance and variances.
• Directly responsible for the safety of all reporting trades employees.
• Ensures work progression in accordance with safety, cost, quality, and schedules.
• Establishes high levels of teamwork and morale. Ensures all employees are provided with a work environment that is respectful and inclusive.
• Facilitates “cross-SOC” quality process issues and ensures resolution/communication feedback.
• Follows and implements the collective agreement and standard methodologies to lead labour effectively.
• Identifies, develops, and implements welding standards and processes to ensure consistent delivery of outputs.
• Implements and supports continuous improvement initiatives.
• Leads implementation of HSEQ plans on the shop floor and strives to eliminate safety hazards at every opportunity along with all reporting employees.
• Manages designated departments, including recruitment, training, development, and performance management. Maintains succession plans and ensures the creation and follow-through of employee development plans.
• Partners with Trade Development Managers to ensure trade workers have the skills, equipment, training, and certifications required to perform planned work activities.
• Responsible for employee relations matters including discipline, performance/attendance management, termination of employment, and promotions/demotions of bargaining unit employees.
• Responsible for interpreting and assigning work orders and ensuring work orders are completed in a timely manner.
• Responsible for timekeeping administration of direct reports and indirect reports.
• Reviews the construction plan and schedule. Allocates manpower in accordance with schedule and priorities for emergency breakdown work.
• Works with disability and rehabilitation consultants in assisting injured employees to return to work on graduated return by identifying appropriate tasks and conditions.
• Works with the Facilities and Procurement department to ensure trade equipment is maintained and material requirements are met in an efficient manner.
• Works with production managers to plan and execute maintenance to avoid any disruption to production.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• Ability to build an effective team, implements change, and lead others toward a shared goal.
• Ability to generate Bill of Materials (BOM) for new vessel projects including needed consumables.
• Appreciation and understanding of the value of diversity within a team.
• Commitment to safety and quality, and significant experience in the application of behavioral-based safety.
• Communication and interpersonal skills.
• Conflict resolution and negotiation skills to resolve disagreements quickly and effectively, bringing a problem-solving attitude to conflicting approaches.
• Knowledge of trade responsibilities specific to the heavy manufacturing industry with respect to preventative maintenance, and emergency breakdown repair (welding, metal fabrication, electrical, pipefitting, paint/sandblasting, mechanical, rigging).
• Management and leadership skills with the ability to empower and work with and through others to achieve desired results.
• Proficiency with MS Office products and web-based applications.
• Time management and organization skills with a dedication to follow-up and follow-through.

Employer’s Statement

Seaspan is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and encourages applications from all qualified individuals including, women, members of visible minorities, Indigenous persons, and persons with disabilities.