{"id":135408,"date":"2022-12-28T09:19:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T14:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=135408"},"modified":"2022-12-28T09:19:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T14:19:10","slug":"army-veteran-improving-shipyard-competency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=135408","title":{"rendered":"Army veteran improving shipyard competency"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Simpsons<\/a><\/p>\n

Charles “Chuck” Krugh hit the road running when he took the reins at Bath Iron Works. Instead of remaining at his office, or just with senior ranking employees, he toured the shipyard getting to know both the workers and the work process. He’s using his job specialty and work history to lead a streamlining of operations to increase efficiency.<\/p>\n

From the military Times:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

BATH, Maine \u2014 Making the switch from building corporate jets to building Navy warships has been reinvigorating for a soldier-turned-business executive who\u2019s leading Navy shipbuilder Bath Iron Works.<\/p>\n

Charles \u201cChuck\u201d Krugh said he wasted no time in getting his hands dirty, meeting daily with workers on the ships\u2019 \u201cdeck plates.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a hands-on guy that likes to get into the details,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Shipbuilders weren\u2019t so sure at first whether it was just an act, but after six months they\u2019re now accustomed to him regularly chatting with shipbuilders to get a handle on their workflow, at all hours of the day and night.<\/p>\n

Labor relations have improved along the way.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all been good. We\u2019re moving in the right direction. We\u2019ve just got to keep moving that way,\u201d said Rock Grenier, president of Local S6 of the Machinists Union, which represents production workers.<\/p>\n

Krugh, 58, arrived in June after the abrupt departure of former Bath Iron Works President Dirk Lesko, who led the General Dynamics subsidiary through a difficult period that included a pandemic and a two-month strike, both of which lengthened construction delays.<\/p>\n

The future guided-missile destroyer USS Carl M. Levin that completed acceptance trials this month is more than a year behind schedule. The silver lining, Krugh said, is that the warship earned the highest marks for a Bath-built ship in years in a review by the Navy\u2019s Board of Inspection and Survey.<\/p>\n

Krugh said he\u2019s encouraging the shipyard\u2019s 7,000 workers to rethink processes to ensure they can complete tasks as efficiently as possible. A big part of that is ensuring proper planning before a task even starts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The military Times has additional information<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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