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Saronic Technologies is building autonomous surface vessels for maritime defense. This role owns the integration and operational readiness of Port Alpha, a new greenfield shipyard facility in Brownsville, TX.
The Shipyard Integration Manager sits at the critical intersection of facility construction and production operations. You will drive two parallel workstreams: (1) asset-by-asset facility integration—ensuring every building, crane, shiplift, panel line, utility system, and support area is accepted, commissioned, documented, and operationally ready before production handoff; and (2) contractor and trade partner integration—establishing how subcontracted trades and specialty contractors are onboarded, supervised, measured, and held to safety, quality, and schedule standards as internal and contract labor ramp production.
Key responsibilities include:
**Facility Integration & Operational Readiness**
- Own the asset-by-asset integration plan; define "ready to operate" criteria for each building, system, and major equipment.
- Run acceptance and turnover processes with construction teams and vendors: commissioning witness, punch list closure, turnover packages, as-builts, warranty handover.
- Ensure operating procedures, operator and maintainer training, critical spares, and preventive maintenance plans are in place before assets release to Production or Facility Operations.
- Coordinate operational readiness reviews and manage risks and open items that could delay production start in each area.
**Contractor & Trade Partner Integration**
- Own integration of subcontracted trades, specialty contractors, and trade partners from initial scoping through demobilization.
- Establish clear expectations for contractor performance, supervision, and accountability; act as primary escalation point for contractor issues.
- Ensure contractor scopes are sequenced with internal work and facility turnover to deconflict crews, access, and SIMOPS.
- Develop the yard's long-term model for using contract labor at scale, including governance, oversight, and internal capability.
**Onboarding, Standards & Field Execution**
- Design and enforce standardized onboarding for all contractors: safety orientation, site-specific requirements, quality standards, work rules, access controls, communication protocols.
- Ensure contractors understand work planning, sequencing, and release processes; close gaps between contract scope and execution requirements.
- Support development of trade school and workforce partnerships.
**Safety & Quality Alignment**
- Partner with EHS to ensure contractor compliance with shipyard safety rules, permit-to-work systems (hot work, confined space, work at height), SIMOPS coordination, exclusion zones.
- Partner with Quality and Production to ensure contractor crews are qualified for assigned scopes (welding, coatings, electrical, machinery, etc.) and meet yard standards.
- Support incident investigations involving contract labor and drive corrective actions to closure.
**Performance Management & Governance**
- Establish contractor and turnover performance metrics tied to safety, quality/rework, schedule adherence, workforce reliability.
- Lead regular performance reviews with contractors and internal stakeholders; support decisions on contractor continuation, expansion, or removal.
- Report integration status, readiness risk, and contractor performance to VP, Shipyards and site leadership.
**Cross-Functional Coordination**
- Serve as day-to-day interface between Port Alpha Development Program, Asset Reliability & Facility Operations, Production, Planning, Quality, EHS, and Procurement.
- Prevent conflict between internal crews, external trades, and construction contractors by clarifying ownership, interfaces, handoffs.
- Drive rapid resolution of field-level issues threatening turnover dates or production schedule.
You will work closely with Asset Reliability & Facility Operations, Production, Production Engineering, EHS, Quality, Supply Chain/Procurement, the facility construction team, and the Site Project Management Team. This role requires comfort running a disciplined turnover process while managing field-level realities of contract labor on a live construction and production site.
**Requirements**
Required:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Industrial Management, or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years of experience in shipyard, heavy industrial, or large capital construction environments.
- Direct experience commissioning, accepting, or bringing new industrial facilities, production lines, or major equipment into operation.
- 3+ years managing subcontractors, specialty trades, or contract labor programs in an active production or construction setting.
- Strong understanding of shipyard or industrial safety requirements, permit-to-work systems, quality and workmanship standards, and multi-trade sequencing and interfaces.
- Proven ability to resolve contractor performance issues and turnover disputes without disrupting production.
- Strong organizational and written communication skills; comfortable owning readiness trackers, turnover packages, and performance reporting.
Preferred:
- Experience on a greenfield shipyard, major yard expansion, or other large industrial startup.
- Familiarity with cranes, shiplifts or dry docks, panel lines, blast and paint facilities, and marine industrial utilities.
- Experience with labor agreements, union environments, or mixed internal and contract labor models.
- Background in contractor safety programs and field compliance auditing.
- Lean, Six Sigma, or continuous improvement experience.
- Familiarity with ABS, USCG, or NAVSEA requirements and security considerations for government shipbuilding work.
