Steelwork Department Manager/ Quản Đốc Phân Xưởng Sắt

* About us
Damen Song Cam Shipyard is a joint venture between Damen Shipyards Group in the Netherlands and Song Cam Shipyard, based in Haiphong, Vietnam. The shipyard is a strategic and preferred production location within the Damen Shipyards Group, producing tugboats and workboats. Currently, the shipyard outfits, commissions, and delivers approximately 40 vessels per year to clients worldwide. In the future, Damen Song Cam will increase its production facilities to deliver approximately 80 vessels a year and will start to produce some of the hulls that are currently sub-contracted to other yards.
*The role
Production middle managers bridge the gap between top-level management and frontline workers, ensuring smooth operations and efficient resource utilization. Their impact extends from day-to-day routines to long-term strategic goals.
* Key accountabilities :
Employee Performance: Coordinating and managing appointed employees.
- Managing activities
- Discussing assignments and giving directions and instructions.
- Looking after a correct task execution quality and quantity wise. Answering questions and solving issues.
- Looking after a correct and efficient usage of materials and tools.
- Coordinating and looking after the execution of working activities by hired workers.
Finalized steelwork, welding and assembly activities.
- Looking after the realization of steelwork, welding and assembly activities for the benefit of a build number follow the budgets.
- Looking after the timely presence of (helping) tools, materials, and parts. Discussing irregularities and deficits with the storage room and/or the purchasing department, business office, and engineering.
- Setting up the necessary equipment, materials and drawings that are needed for the concerning build number, using a forklift if necessary.
- Checking employee work activities based on drawings and materials. Signaling deviations and giving instructions.
- Enabling the maintenance department in the case of equipment failure.
Project progress: Looking over project process including steelwork, welding and assembly activities:
- Monitoring progress of steelwork, welding and assembly activities and keeping and managing the planning.
- Discussing the required capacity with the department leader on a weekly basis.
- Discussing the progress during construction meetings with construction drawers and leads of other disciplines lead by the project manager
- Syncing the work activities between leads of other disciplines.
Looking after staff members affairs: Looking after staff members' affairs of the appointed employees.
- Appointing leaves and vacations.
- Taking care of the daily hour-management, registering presence and absent on digital hour cards.
- Managing job functioning interviews and advising the department leader on salary increases and the functioning of employees.
- Signalling and finding out whether employees want to partake in further education, and discussing said needs with the department leader.
- Promoting a pleasant working atmosphere.
Other contributions: Carrying out additional tasks.
- Advising the Production Manager about necessary investments and purchasing of new equipment and tools.
- Keeping track of the profile/plate inventory. Registering usage and making sure timely deliveries are made.
- Adhering to company- and work regulations (including QA&E, HS&E and Employee Manual regulations).