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Newport News Sets Up

Separate Division

For New North Yard

Newport News Shipbuilding is setting up a separate and inde- pendent division for the construc- tion of ships in its new North Yard.

It is also reorganizing its present production operations. These de- velopments were announced to em- ployees by John P. Diesel, presi- dent. "Our company is at the highest point of activity in its peacetime history," Mr. Diesel said. "To en- able us to meet our commitments to the 'Navy and to provide for the growth we see ahead, many major changes are being made," he said.

Making the new North Yard into a separate and independent divi- sion will "accelerate progress in de- veloping new commercial ship con- struction, especially for ships to serve the nation's energy needs,"

Mr. Diesel said.

Named to head the new division is A.E. Cox, presently senior pro- gram manager.

Mr- Diesel also announced that "in conjunction with the establish- ment of the new division, there will be a major reorganization of pro- duction operations, which will serve five important objectives." 1. It will shift the emphasis in shipbuilding activities from trade management to project manage- ment. 2. It will develop and centralize production, planning, and control

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CLEARING HOUSE FOR MARINE DIFFICULTIES SINCE 1894 mm activities at the highest level in the company. 3. It will pull together those manufacturing operations that will support iboth the naval and com- mercial shipbuilding programs. 4. It will broaden the organiza- tion structure and permit more people to use their management skills. 5. It will define more clearly the responsibilities for schedule and budget performance on their pro- grams.

R.S. Plummer, vice president, will have broadened responsibility for both the present and the new yards.

He will provide guidance and plan- ning to all shipbuilding operations-

Present waterfront operations will be divided into non-nuclear and nuclear organizations, each of which will have project managers in charge of major programs.

W.R. Phillips Jr. has been ap- pointed director of waterfront op- erations for non-nuclear construc- tion. Reporting to him will be seven superintendents: R.J. Baumler, R.

B. Wheeler, G.J. Snyders, R.J. El- lis, S.A. Mahler, L R. Sorenson Jr., and J.M. Branch.

Also, within this function, D.T.

Van Liere has been named trades administrator to coordinate and di- rect the proper trades personnel, and G.M. Bonnett will serve as pro- cess engineer, insuring that the best and most economical methods of construction are employed.

J.P. Fox has been appointed di- rector of nuclear construction. Su- perintendents reporting to him will be F.F. Sanders, J.C- Meredith Jr.,

D.L. Sweeney, W.G. Corson, G.P.

Miller, J.A. Price, B.J. Huff, and

E.U. Morin.

Also, L C. Robertson Jr. will serve as nuclear trades administra- tor.

The manufacturing division un- der B.A. Worcester has been strengthened by the addition of a new function, manufacturing engi- neering, headed by T.D. Jennings.

Other superintendents reporting to

Mr. Worcester are J.H. Brendle,

A.H. Wornom, W.R. Jebson, T.E- "aunders and D.L. Stinson Jr.

The other directors named are

H. Monroe Jr., production control and planning, and F.V. Daly, who will continue as director of the fa- cilities division.

Messers Phillips, Fox, Monroe and Daly will report to the office of the president.

Mr. Diesel told yard employees: "This reorganization is being made at a time when the yard faces its greatest challenges in history. We are committed to perform more sophisticated and complex naval shipbuilding construction than any other yard in this nation, and we are seeking to become the world's leading builder of high quality ships to help meet the nation's en- ergy demands- "We need the support of every member of the Newport News ship- building team as we enter this new and dynamic era of our growth. "I know I can count on the ded- ication and cooperation of every person in our organization," he concluded.

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