Gregory Falls

• General Superintendent Pipe Department
• June 2014- Feb 2021 Gen Supt Pipe Shop operations
• Reduced PD (Pipe Detail) rates across all classes of ships manufactured at Ingalls. Set best in class PD rates on LPD, DDG, NSC, and LHA classes.
• Responsible for Safety, Quality, Cost, and Schedule for Pipe Shop Cost Center, Improved Cum CPI from a .92 to a .99. Approximate cost variance of 3000 hours across an approximate 1 million man hour budget.
• During this time period managed unit outfitting on DDG 121 and DDG 123. Showing 3% learn across sequential hulls.
• Managed the successful repair of USS Fitzgerald. Repaired all pipe damage with a Cum CPI of a .94 while maintaining Safety and Quality ratings within acceptable limits.
• Feb 2021 - Present. Gen Supt Pipe Department LHA program. Responsible for all aspects of safety, quality, cost, and schedule for team of approximately 300 craftsmen and managers

Responsible for all aspects of welding for Hull and Pipe Departments Responsible for Safety, Quality, Cost, and Schedule for all work associated with Hull and Pipe work orders. Managed a team of approximately 1200 craftsmen and managers.

Teams won two Presidents Award for Excellence. Pipe Welding Team won award for World Class Rates in volumetric inspections below 1 percent. Hull Gen Supt Walter Dixon won leadership award for innovative improvements in processes that improved quality and cost.

Created Pipe Welding Management Team within Pipe Department to improve quality and reduce cost through reduction in pipe welding rework. Hired and trained a team of 4 General Foremen and 12 Foremen to manage pipe welders on all shipbuilding programs at Ingalls Shipbuilding.

Won Presidents Award for Excellence for improvements in pipe welding quality with a team that included operations employees in pipe department and the quality assurance department. Improvements were recognized by both SupShip GC and NAVSEA.

General Foreman Welding VCS Program

Responsible for all aspects of welding on the Virginia Class Program during unit outfitting, ship integration and delivery. Responsible for Safety, Quality, Cost, and Schedule.

Managed a team of approximately 120 craftsmen and managers.

Responsible discipline include structural welding nuclear and non-nuclear, pipe welding nuclear and non-nuclear.

Team successfully completed Block 1 and currently were working block 2 boats with significant learning between ships during my tenure.

Welding Foreman Carrier Construction

Burning Foreman- Worked crew of approximately 12 burners. Responsible for all burning operations for outfitting, shipwrights, and shipfitters.

Compartment Completion. Sold all compartments on CVN 76 structural complete for welding department to ships management.

Pipe Welding Foreman- Managed a crew of approximately 15 pipe welders during construction of the ship.

Operations Trade Management Foreman for Welding Department. Responsible for Hiring and Training of Pipe Welders for the Welding Department. Hired and trained pipe welders based on demand from company labor resource hiring plan. Developed corrective and preventive actions for pipe welding across all programs.

Structural Designer Carrier Program

Created Structural Drawings for CVN 76.

Incorporated LPS (Liaison Problem and Solutions) changes on CVN 74 and CVN75 drawings.

Proficient at CadAm and Autocad.

Trained on Workstation Vivid (early generation product model) and AutoCad

Structural and Pipe Welding Apprentice and Journeyman

Completed Apprentice program in 3 years and 2 months.

Welded Structural piping components on the submarine and carrier program