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New training mock-up in San Diego offers apprentices a 'safe-to-fail' environment for honing their skills
February 25, 2025 — Mtume Salaam, workforce development manager, Code 984, Shop Resources, looks at his current training setting in Building 73 on Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, with a large amount of pride.The converted space wasn’t always the intricate training area it is now. Initially set aside to become a training area in 2023, other priorities put...

SurgeMain Sailors begin their annual training program with a renewed emphasis on warfighting readiness
February 25, 2025 — Almost 90 U.S. Navy Reserve Surge Maintenance Sailors will deploy throughout February to various shops and locations to support Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility work, and to expand their warfighting readiness.According to Lt. Cdr. Erin Spindle, PSNS & IMF and Northwest Regional Maintenance Center SurgeMain officer in...

Allen Botsford, 59-year PSNS & IMF employee: 'There's still a lot to get done here.'
February 24, 2025 — When Allen Botsford, ship safety technician, Code 350.10, Ship Safety Watch Group, first began as a welder’s helper in Shop 26, Welders, Jan. 10, 1966, a gallon of gas cost just 32 cents. Lyndon B. Johnson was President of the United States and the Chicago Bulls basketball team played its first season in the National Basketball Association. Today,...

Mentors can provide employees with key insights while helping them find opportunities for success
February 21, 2025 — Ryan Cozza, Reactor Servicing Training Organization branch head, Code 2370.1, Nuclear Refueling Engineering Division, began working at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility in March 2019. Starting off as a Ship Refueling Tech candidate, Cozza was determined to become a certified Ship Refueling Expert.That determination...

Maintenance team completes four-year upgrade process, extending crane's life another 20 years
February 21, 2025 — A team of more than two dozen Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility Crane Maintenance Team professionals completed a four-year effort to upgrade Crane 62 on Jan. 3.Crane 62 is one of 10 portal cranes that can be seen regularly moving throughout the shipyard on rails similar to train tracks, carrying an assortment of heavy...

PSNS & IMF works to expand food options for workforce
January 21, 2025 — Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility continues to bring more lunchtime food options into the shipyard’s Controlled Industrial Area.PSNS & IMF welcomed Sauced, a food truck specializing in Filipino, Hawaiian and Mexican cuisine into the CIA for the first time, Oct. 4.Sauced set up shop between Dry Dock 6 and Building 455...

New automated pizza oven keeps prices down while producing fresh pies for hungry shipyard employees
January 16, 2025 — Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility leadership has found a way to make ordering a hot slice of pizza easier for command employees.It is part of the command's effort to improve quality of service throughout the shipyard—in both big ways and smaller ways.“This is a huge improvement for us,” said Chad Davis, Morale, Welfare...

Navy leader briefed on command's digital transformation efforts
January 15, 2025 — Manuel Hermosilla, deputy commander NAVSEA03, Cyber & Digital Transformation, visited Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility Dec. 2-3, 2024.Rob LaTendresse, command transformation officer, Code 100TO, Transformation Office, said Hermosilla’s stated purpose in visiting PSNS & IMF was to understand the ongoing digital...

Ribbon cutting celebrates first of 3 new expressing pods for nursing mothers at PSNS & IMF
January 15, 2025 — Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate & Intermediate Maintenance Facility is seeking to improve the lives of new mothers working at the shipyard by adding three expressing station pods inside the Controlled Industrial Area.The pods will give nursing mothers a self-contained, private, clean and quiet place designed specifically for them. One of...

Shop 31 employees custom build portable milling machine to support work on submarine hatches
November 20, 2024 — The expert toolmakers in Shop 31, Inside Machinist, recently answered the call to quickly design, build, test and deploy a portable three-axis Logistical Escape Trunk Lug radial milling machine for some emergent work at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility.The machine is used to help ensure the tolerances on submarine...

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