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Command Career Center moves to Olympic Lodge
July 3, 2024 — The Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility Command Career Center has transitioned from their old office in the Controlled Industrial Area to their new location at the Olympic Lodge Training Center.While the three-person team may have moved to a new building, they are still providing the same services and counseling to help... MORE

The three-person Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility Command Career Center team includes (from left) Heidi Anderson, Command Career Counselor lead, John Smith, office manager, and Rozy Castellanos, career counselor. (U.S. Navy photo by Wendy Hallmark)

Campaign to focus on workforce safety
June 6, 2024 — Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility kicked off its “Pathway to Safety" campaign, May 21, focusing on the psychological and physical safety of the workforce.The "Pathway to Safety" campaign will run through the end of June.One of the key components of the month-long campaign is the psychological safety of the command's... MORE

Capt. JD Crinklaw, commander, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility, high-fives employees, May 21, 2024, during a Pathway to Safety campaign event in Bremerton, Washington. (U.S. Navy photo by Wendy Hallmark)

Command event highlights the value of hiring people with disabilities
May 9, 2024 — The Spectrum of the Unique and Neurodiverse Employee Resource Group hosted a guest speaker from Trillium Employment Services in recognition Autism Awareness Month.Lindsey Woodruff, program manager at Trillium, discussed inclusivity, helping workers with disabilities find purpose and the value of hiring people with disabilities.“I was really happy... MORE

Lindsey Woodruff, program manager for Trillium, talks about the value of hiring people with disabilities, April 25, 2024, during a Spectrum of the Unique and Neurodiverse Employee Resource Group Employee Resource Group Autism Awareness Month observance in Building 431, at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Washington. (U.S Navy photo by Wendy Hallmark)

Shipyard employees teach elementary school students how dry docks work during Kitsap Water Festival
April 30, 2024 — Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility employees joined forces at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds, April 16, 2024 in support of the 2024 Kitsap Water Festival.The educational event was open to over a thousand third and fourth graders from 15 local elementary schools to learn how their every-day actions impact water... MORE

Theron Bergland, general foreman, Shop 64, Shipwrights, and Steven Middendorf, docking zone manager, Code 240, Engineering and Planning, get help pumping out a dry dock mock-up from a group of students, April 16, 2024, at the Kitsap Water Festival in Bremerton, Washington. (U.S. Navy photo by Wendy Hallmark)

Event helps showcase shipyard apprentice program
March 28, 2024 — Approximately 300 Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility employees attended an Apprenticeship Knowledge Fair in Building 460, February 28-29 and March 13-14.The event showcased the apprenticeship program's trade instructors and shop representatives along with the benefits of working as an apprentice.The four-day event also... MORE

Casey Harris, welder, Shop 26, Welders, talks with Nicholas Haskins, apprentice instructor, and Riley Morris, mechanic, both Shop 06, Tool Mechanics, Maintenance Logistics, March 13, 2024, during an Apprenticeship Knowledge Fair in Building 460 at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Washington. (U.S. Navy photo by Jeb Fach)

Longtime Shop 11/17 manager named 2023 Worker/Driver of the Year
March 7, 2024 — Sam Pruiett, operation manager, Shop 11/17, Shipfitters, Forge, Sheet Metal, began driving a Worker/Driver bus for Kitsap Transit in 1994 to help get his fellow employees at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility to work safely.In his 30 years behind the wheel, Pruiett estimates that he has driven more than 160,000 miles... MORE

Sam Pruiett, operations manager, Shop 11/17, Shipfitters, Forge, Sheetmetal, at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Washington, was named 2023 Kitsap Transit Worker/Driver of the Year. (Kitsap Transit photo)

Hundreds land on-the-spot job offers during two-day PSNS & IMF employment event
February 29, 2024 — More than 2,000 job seekers came to downtown Bremerton, Feb. 23-24, in search of new employment opportunities, during a Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility Hiring Fair at the Kitsap Conference Center. New opportunities are exactly what they found.The two-day event resulted in 262 on-the-spot job offers to work at the... MORE

Capt. JD Crinklaw, commander, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility, shakes hands with Dwight Stephens, a job applicant from Bremerton, Washington, Feb. 23, 2024, during a two-day PSNS & IMF Hiring Fair at the Kitsap Conference Center in downtown Bremerton. (U.S Navy photo by Wendy Hallmark)

New department heads for Code 120 and Code 100TO bring a wealth of experience to their respective roles
January 19, 2024 — In late 2023, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility welcomed two new department heads as Robert LaTendresse took over as department head of Code 100TO, Command Transformation Office, and Jeremy McCrimmon assumed the department head position for Code 120, Ocean Engineering.LaTendresse previously served as the PSNS & IMF... MORE

Jeremy McCrimmon recently took over as department head for Code 120, Ocean Engineering, at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Washington. Before that, he was the division manager for Code 130, Quality Assurance Department. (U.S. Navy photo by Jeb Fach)

Senior leaders cut ribbon on 24-hour NEX Micro Market, during official grand opening ceremony in Building 1246
January 16, 2024 — Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Dec. 7, 2023, to celebrate the grand opening of a new Navy Exchange Service Command (NEXCOM) Micro Market in Bldg. 1246, on the north side of Farragut Ave. across from Dry Dock 2.Since its soft opening Oct. 17, the 24-hour self-service, self-checkout Micro... MORE

From left, Robert Bianchi, chief executive officer, Navy Exchange Service Command; Master Chief Michael C. Gosart, command senior enlisted leader, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard &
Intermediate Maintenance Facility; Capt. JD Crinklaw, commander, PSNS & IMF; Rear Adm. Scott M. Brown, deputy commander, Industrial Operations, Naval Sea Systems Command; and James Cook, deputy executive director, PSNS & IMF, cut the ribbon to officially open the new NEXCOM Micro Market inside Building 1246, at the command in Bremerton, Washington, Dec. 7, 2023. (U.S Navy Photo by Wendy Hallmark)

Shipyard employees participate in special Veterans Day flag-replacement ceremony
November 29, 2023 — Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility held a ceremony to celebrate and recognize Veterans Day, November 9 on the roof of Building 850.The event, hosted by the Veterans Employee Resource Group, replaced the worn U.S. flag at the State Street entrance with a new one.An honor guard composed of active duty Sailors and veterans... MORE

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