U.S. naval and commercial shipbuilder scaling design and manufacturing operations
Hanwha Philly Shipyard operates a traditional shipbuilding stack anchored in CAD (AutoCAD, AVEVA), project management (Primavera P6, Microsoft Project), and enterprise resource planning (SAP), with no visible cloud or modern data tooling. The hiring mix is heavily weighted toward engineering and manufacturing roles, and active projects cluster around vessel construction, design review cycles, and data infrastructure for manhour tracking—suggesting the yard is automating manual reporting processes that currently create cost and schedule friction.
Notable leadership hires: Piping Design Lead
Hanwha Philly Shipyard is a privately held U.S. shipbuilder headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, specializing in naval and commercial vessel construction. The company employs between 1,001 and 5,000 people and operates across engineering, manufacturing, procurement, and operations. Current work includes new vessel construction, design reviews, bill-of-materials ordering, and integrated master scheduling. The organization is actively addressing internal friction points around change-order management, manhour reporting accuracy, and warranty administration—core challenges in capital-intensive shipbuilding operations.
The yard uses AutoCAD and AVEVA for design work, Navisworks for 3D coordination, SAP for enterprise resource planning, and Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project for project scheduling and control.
The yard is prioritizing reduction of change orders, improvement of manhour reporting accuracy, owner deficiency management, warranty claims handling, and cost-saving process improvements—all typical pain points in large-scale vessel construction.
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