Intern, Project Engineering

at  Seaspan ULC

Through the National Shipbuilding Strategy (NSS), the Government of Canada has embarked on one of the largest procurement projects since the Second World War. The NSS is a nation-building effort to create a sustainable Canadian shipbuilding industry, secure long-term job opportunities and build the next generation of ships for the Canadian Coast Guard and Royal Canadian Navy. Through its NSS–related work, Seaspan Shipyards is owning the redevelopment of our domestic shipbuilding industry on the West Coast and delivering on the promise of ships built in Canada, by Canadians.
The Intern, Project Engineering will be responsible for supporting a multi-disciplinary engineering team to drive the delivery of the engineering work from design, functional design, detail design, planning, construction and ultimately to achieve acceptance, ensuring that all engineering scope of work for the project is completed, to meet cost and schedule requirements. The role provides a comprehensive project view to support engineering teams meet their commitments, and address issues, mitigate risks and improve opportunities. The position reports to the Senior Manager, Project Engineering.

• Applies a project management approach to complete pre-production and production support activities, including work performed by major subcontractors, and ensure the efficient delivery of engineering outputs.
• Supports the Project Engineering Team for the Joint Support Ships (JSS) by developing tools & processes to solve sophisticated technical problems to support ship building milestones.
• Identifies inefficiencies and areas that could be improved in the process and works with supervisor to determine potential solutions.
• Drives timely closure of technical issues to ensure that all engineering deliverables and inputs to other stakeholders are achieved and meet (or exceed) commitments.
• Responsible for application of an appropriate engineering maturity management culture and appropriate engineering lifecycle management, aligned with project objectives.
• Ensures maturity targets are agreed with key stakeholders.