Bill Pfister
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- Field of Dreams Maritime Reporter, Nov 2002 #41
Austal USA is building, and they ...
meaning customers and new workers ... are coming.
With a company built to build speed, one would expect a non-stop flurry of activity to be the hallmark of the manufacturing facility.
Quite the contrary.
Upon coming to Mobile, Ala., in early August to visit Austal USA, a slow, steady stream of new employee applicants was the defining moment.
Early for an appointment with new CEO Alan B. Lerchbacker, I sat in the lobby and watched in amazement as one job applicant after another walked through the front door. Make no mistake, Austal's ultra-modern shipbuilding shed and its ubiquitous new leader leave an indelible impression. But that steady stream, particularly in the face of what many describe as a "down" market, was most impressive.
The jobseekers come to Austal USA for good reason, as the company is in expansion mode. Flush with success in wooing military and commercial buyers, the company is not sitting on the capabilities of its current building "shed" — which is one 262-ft. (80-m) boat or two 164-ft. (50-m) boats per year — and has invested $8.2 million for the construction of a new 426-ft.
(130-m) boatbuilding shed to flank the current one.
With two sheds, the company expect to support a base of 580 employees, and as Bill Pfister, vice president of marketing and administration simply put it "As soon as this shed is filled, a third one will go up." The current goal: 2,000 employees in four years, with a slight majority of business coming from the commercial side. — Greg Trauthwein
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- Southern Hospitality Maritime Reporter, Jan 2001 #10
. While this is pleasing to Austal USA from a design standpoint, it has surprisingly been a factor in adding to its workforce. According to Bill Pfister, Austal USA's vice president, Marketing & Administration, many area residents view this new structure while driving through the downtown area
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- Lerchbacker Puts Austal USA on the Fast Track Maritime Reporter, Nov 2002 #38
, serves as Austal USA's vice president of marketing and sales. Rounding out the team as vice president of marketing and administration is Bill Pfister, who, like Lerchbacker, is a former Navy officer and Naval Academy graduate. Pfister has private-sector shipyard experience as well: He
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 14for the coming six to 12 months and that Congress thought that it addressed in the last Coast what’s being done to address them? Guard Authorization bill, the last National Defense Au- We’ve hit on some of them. If I had to take it up to a thorization Act. Unfortunately, the Coast Guard hasn’t higher
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 13are being applied in a practical risk-based way. ize their guidance to really take that risk-based lens that We hope to see a Coast Guard Authorization Bill and we’ve talked about on cyber and other issues and make a Water Resources Development Act enacted this year. sure that it is tailored. There is
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November 2023 - Marine News page: 38impacting U.S. workers on new offshore en- headquartered in some of the wealthiest countries to utilize ergy projects. This effort was initiated by Sen. Bill Cassidy mariners from low-wage nations. When employed in our (R-La.) in February 2022 when he introduced the “Ameri- waters, these mariners are not
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November 2023 - Marine News page: 30? cally for the maritime sectors, has been involved in successful testing alongside utility Southern Company, Terra Power, a business incubator tied to Bill Gates. California’s push for ‘green’ Alex Parker, managing partner at Rose Cay Maritime, which currently operates a large tug and barge ? eet, de- ployed
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November 2023 - Marine News page: 18NOFOs that have been issued for this tection Agency (EPA) was “taking the next step to invest $3 increased funding have emphasized the importance of dem- billion in its Clean Ports Program to fund zero-emission port onstrating that a project for which funding is requested will equipment and technology and
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September 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 64IRM services for The BSEE is funding the project with a grant to UH re- Petrobras. The project involved a remote piloting upgrade of searchers Zheng Chen, Bill D. Cook Assistant Professor of the workclass ROV system on board an ROV support vessel. Mechanical Engineering and Gangbing Song, John and Re- Real-time
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September 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 55the economics of the tor from expensive down time and re- quality weld. Through this spectrum of weld. Chamfers are easier to create but curring repair bills. practice "where the arc meets the metal" require more weld passes to ? ll the re- Why keep making the same crack there are opportunities to create
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June 2023 - Marine News page: 36support for dredging from the Biden Administra- tion and Congress. The company highlights funding from the following: • The Omnibus Appropriations Bill for ? scal year 2023 which includes a record $8.66 billion budget for the Army Corps of Engineers’ civil works program; • Of that, $2.32 billion is
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July 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 39. The Army Corps received funding and authority to restore Co- ney Island with the Hurricane Sandy Disaster Relief Appropria- tions Act of 2013 or “Sandy Bill.” The bill authorized the Army Corps to not only repair engi- neered beach projects by replacing the sand lost during Hur- ricane Sandy, but also to
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July 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 32TOOLING & MANIPULATORS THE HUNT FOR UXO Detection and remediation of unexploded ordnance (UXO) certainly ? ts the bill when talk turns to removing the diver from dirty, dif? cult and dangerous situations. Here’s a look at a few systems that are making waves. reensea Systems demonstrated its capabilities
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May 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 50service providers Investment and Jobs Act (also known as the Bipartisan Infra- – and the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) announcing an structure Bill) signed in 2021, which authorized spending of effort to create a corridor for the Gulf of Mexico and Lower $7B on the establishment of regional clean
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February 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 48, Suite 1200, Houston, TX , USA , tel:(346) 212- [email protected] contact: Viola Sherman www.siliconsensing.com 1408, [email protected] contact: Bill Hanson, NAVAL ARCHITECTS, MARINE www.GLDD.com ENGINEERS ENGINE ORDER TELEGRAPH JMS Naval Architects, 70 Essex Street, Mystic, CT , Prime Mover
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February 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 20at the Naval Submarine League 2022 symposium, to recon? gure, modernize and optimize our four aging Naval Commander, Submarine Forces Atlantic, Vice Adm. Bill Shipyards into new modern facilities.” Houston commended the industry representatives in the room. The public shipyards, including the four naval
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February 2023 - Marine News page: 43named Harry K. of talent development, will add re- sponsibilities and lead the company’s Stewart, previously chief operating of? - cer, as its new CEO. Bill T. Dutra, who alternative investments division with Dutra Nunan led the company since its founding, will oversight of Resolve Academy, the company’s
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January 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 441200, Houston, TX , USA , tel:(346) 212- METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS Plymouth, Devon PL6 6DE United Kingdom , UK , tel:+44 1408, [email protected] contact: Bill Hanson, (0) 1752 723330, [email protected] , R.M. Young Company, 2801 Aero Park Drive Traverse www.GLDD.com www.siliconsensing.com City
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January 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 39and may eliminate as much as a week in the time needed for the retro? t dur- Image courtesy Ecochlor ing drydock. In addition, because of the smaller bill of materials, owners could Last year we had an at-sea retro? t of a Candy, Scienco InTank realize up to 40% savings in piping and BIO-SEA L03-087
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