Operations Manager - Westcon Yard Florø AS

Operations Manager

Westcon Yard Florø, located at the traditional shipyard centrally in Florø, is a leading actor in the business areas of subsea/fabrication, ships and defense. We have a project portfolio that is constantly evolving in line with new needs and opportunities. Westcon invests long-term and works targetedly with modernization and sustainability. For a newly established position, we are now looking for an Operations Manager for the shipyard. You will have a central role in the management of the shipyard, with responsibility for production, maintenance, and plant operations.

As an operations manager, you will lead a team of production and maintenance leaders, and it is therefore important that you have good leadership skills and experience from the operation of larger facilities. The position is part of the leadership group at Westcon Yard Florø and reports directly to the shipyard director.

Your responsibilities:

• Overall responsibility for production, maintenance, and plant operations
• Personnel responsibility for leaders within production and maintenance
• Planning and development of routines, systems, and processes
• Organization and management of the departments
• Long-term planning and strategic operations
• Actively contribute to the leadership group at the shipyard

We are looking for someone:

• With experience from the maritime industry or a similar production environment
• With good leadership skills and the ability to motivate your team
• Structured, systematic, and development-oriented
• With good commercial understanding and the ability to see the whole picture of the operation

You must be able to obtain a security clearance for level HEMMELEG / NATO SECRET. See nsm.no for more information.

If you have questions about the position, please contact the shipyard director of Westcon Yard Florø: Trygve Solaas at phone 900 51 610 or email trygve.solaas@westcon.no. Or advisors Asbjørn Grini at phone 917 94 825 or email Asbjorn@visere.no Daniel Klakegg Dvergsdal at phone 904 79 470 or email Daniel@visere.no

About Westcon Yard Florø: Westcon Yard Florø is growing and has entered into a strategic framework agreement as a subcontractor to Kongsberg Naval Service for the maintenance of the defense's frigates, in addition to agreements for the maintenance of the Coast Guard fleet. We are also experiencing good growth within the construction of subsea modulars and deliver, among others, to customers such as Aker, Technip FMC, and Subsea 7. We are committed to ensuring that you have the right attitudes, like to collaborate and can communicate well with others. We are further committed to the fact that we here at Westcon are a community, where knowledge is shared across roles and departments.

Why choose us? As an operations manager, you will get professional challenges, but also good opportunities for individual career development. Our latest major contracts give us many opportunities, but also security and stability in the long-term perspective. As a workplace, we can offer professional challenge and development, great colleagues with good teamwork, our own canteen, welfare arrangements, and good future prospects. We currently have just over 200 employees, and we look forward to welcoming more new colleagues!

The shipyard's location: Florø is a small town with about 9,000 inhabitants furthest west in the country and is surrounded by fantastic nature. Mountains and sea are close by, but you also find all you need from city life with cafes, culture, and various leisure activities. There is a centrally located airport with direct routes to Oslo and Bergen. In addition, Kystekspressen's boat routes have two daily departures to Bergen.