To ensure success in the first year, you must focus on four primary reliability metrics: Asset Uptime (Availability), prioritizing the critical shipyard infrastructure like cranes, shiplifts, and utility distributions; Preventive Maintenance (PM) Compliance, which tracks the adherence to the established maintenance strategy to minimize unplanned outages; Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), utilized to analyze and improve the performance of recurring equipment issues; and Capital Project Variance, measuring the budget and schedule performance of yard expansions. Finally, you must successfully implement Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) data tracking, ensuring that all maintenance activities and lifecycle costs are accurately documented to inform future investment and replacement decisions.

The Director of Shipyard Facilities Operations & Asset Reliability balances immediate operational needs with long-term capital strategy by integrating maintenance discipline with rigorous financial oversight. They ensure near-term production continuity by enforcing predictive and preventive maintenance strategies, minimizing unplanned outages for critical assets like cranes and utility systems. Simultaneously, this leader manages long-term expansion through proactive capital planning, using lifecycle cost analysis to inform repair-versus-replacement decisions. By aligning capital projects with production forecasts, they ensure that infrastructure growth systematically supports operational goals. This role requires constant communication with production leadership to prioritize reliability while executing infrastructure upgrades, ensuring that all projects transition smoothly from execution into sustainable, long-term facilities ownership.

Industry-standard digital maintenance and reliability tools focus on integrating real-time data to drive performance. For data-driven reliability, Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) like SAP PM, UpKeep, or IBM Maximo are essential for tracking assets, scheduling preventive maintenance, and managing inventory. Reliability teams often utilize Predictive Maintenance (PdM) platforms, such as Fluke Connect or PTC’s ThingWorx, to monitor vibration, temperature, and electrical health of heavy equipment like cranes. Furthermore, Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) software enables lifecycle cost analysis, aiding leaders in making informed repair-versus-replace decisions. Combining these tools with Data Visualization/BI platforms (e.g., Tableau, Power BI) is best practice for tracking KPIs like Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) and overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE).

The Director of Shipyard Facilities Operations & Asset Reliability scales infrastructure by blending expert reliability management with strategic capital execution. This leader ensures production continuity by enforcing rigorous preventive maintenance on critical assets like cranes, docks, and utilities. Simultaneously, they drive long-term capacity growth by spearheading facility expansions and infrastructure upgrades. By aligning maintenance strategies with production forecasts, the Director balances operational demand with proactive development. Their financial rigor ensures that shipyard expansion remains on budget and schedule, successfully transitioning new assets into high-performance environments. Through this dual focus on operational uptime and sustainable capital investment, the Director builds the scalable foundation necessary for Saronic to reach its ambitious maritime autonomy goals.

This leadership role serves as the critical bridge between facility infrastructure and production engineering. You will integrate by aligning maintenance schedules with operational demand, ensuring that cranes, utilities, and waterfront assets remain reliable to support continuous manufacturing workflows. By collaborating directly with the Engineering and Manufacturing teams, you will establish clear performance metrics, manage capital expansions that facilitate new technical capabilities, and provide an escalation path when infrastructure limitations threaten delivery timelines. Ultimately, you will ensure that the shipyard environment is optimized for safety and efficiency, allowing engineers to focus on ship development while you maintain the rigorous uptime, facility documentation, and project controls necessary for large-scale maritime integration.