“As part of the Navy’s Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program (SIOP), replacing Dry Dock 3 at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard is a critical enabler of increased naval capability,” said Pete Lynch, program executive officer for Industrial Infrastructure, who oversees SIOP. Pacific Fleet’s nuclear-powered submarines. The planned five-year project will construct a graving dock, to be designated Dry Dock 5, in order to support PHNSY’s ability to continue serving the Navy decades into the future by maintaining and modernizing the U.S. on HPR-1.Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) Pacific awarded a $2.8-billion task order under a previously-awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple-award construction contract to Dragados/Hawaiian Dredging/Orion JV, based in Honolulu, Hawaii, to replace Dry Dock 3 at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility (PHNSY & IMF) March 10. The Conversation airs weekdays at 11 a.m. This interview aired on The Conversation on April 14, 2023. at the Entrepreneurs Sandbox in Kakaʻako. The career fair is on Saturday, April 15 from 10 a.m.
And so when we were notified of this job, we thought, okay, it's full steam ahead," she said. "We are trying to do everything we possibly can to keep people here in Hawaiʻi and provide them the opportunities to continue working here. The company is holding a career fair at the Entrepreneurs Sandbox in Kaka’ako on Saturday as it prepares to scale up for the project. And just to help us look for the talent that we need and try and solicit and keep our people here and employed is an opportunity for us that we're working side by side with Dragados on," said Manu Bermudes, vice president for human resources.
The Navy awarded the contract worth close to $3 billion a few weeks ago. Now in a new joint venture with Dragados USA and Orion Government Services LLC, the company will return to Pearl Harbor to modernize its shipyard. More than a hundred years ago it dredged the mouth of Pearl Harbor, as well the Ala Wai Canal and much of the Honolulu Harbor waterfront. The Hawaiian Dredging Construction Company, started by Walter Dillingham, has played a big part in shaping the built world of our islands.
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