REPAIR PROCEDURES
segregate, stow, and issue controlled material in the
work center.
As an HT, you may be required to organize and
supervise an HT shop aboard ship or at a shore facility.
Shop Craftsmen
It will be your responsibility to supervise and instruct
personnel of lower rates in the techniques of carpentry
Shop craftsmen are not normally trained in specific
and woodworking, plate and sheet metal layout and
QA functions as are the key QA people. Still, they must
fabrication, pipefitting, and the welding of various types
do their work under QA guidelines if they apply. They
of metals. In addition, you will be required to estimate
will work closely with their shop supervisors and QA
the time, materials, and personnel required for the
inspectors to ensure the work is done according to QA
completion of various wood and metalworking jobs; to
guidelines and procedures.
maintain the HT shop, including all tools and
equipment, in the best possible condition; and to ensure
THE CONTROLLED WORK
that all safety precautions are observed by your
PACKAGE
personnel. To supervise HT shop work efficiently,
afloat or ashore, you will rely mostly upon your past
As an HT, you will be required to document the
experience in shop work and repair procedures.
repair work that you do on any ship's system. This
documentation is done in an approved and issued CWP
The purpose of this section is to acquaint an HT
received from the P & E division. The CWP provides
with some of the most important things that must be
QC requirements and procedures to help ensure that
considered by a person in charge of a work center. It is
fabrication or repair will produce a quality product.
impossible, however, to cover all the procedures and
These requirements or procedures include both TYCOM
problems that arise in the daily operations of a work
and local command-generated information for work
center. By studying this section of the chapter, you will
package processing and sign-off. The typical CWP will
become aware of some of the things that occur,
have QA forms, production task control forms,
particularly in regard to the job of setting up shop
departure from specifications forms, material deficiency
procedures and the methods by which everyday
forms, QC personnel sign-off requirements, and hydro
problems are solved.
or test forms. Each CWP covers the entire scope of the
work process and is a permanent and legal record of the
Leading petty officers, especially those who are in
performed work. The job control number (JCN)
direct contact with personnel, often fail to recognize
provides traceability from the work package to other
that they are part of the ship's administrative organiza-
certification documentation. When filled in, the CWP
tion. Every petty officer in the shipboard organization
documents adherence to specified quality standards.
is definitely part of the administrative group. In such a
You must ensure that the CWP is at the job site
capacity, you have many responsibilities that you are
expected to carry out by interpreting and executing the
during the performance of the task. Since the CWP is
established policies and procedures. Supervisors can
the controlling documentation for the performance of
accomplish this properly only when they have a clear
any repair work you accomplish, it is required on the
understanding of these policies and procedures, as well
work site to ensure that no steps or inspection are
as their place within the command's organization.
omitted. If the work procedure requires the
simultaneous performance of procedure steps and these
As a supervisor, the petty officer is expected to spot
steps are done in different locations, use locally
operating difficulties in their shop and do something
developed practices to ensure you maintain control for
about them. You must have an understanding of your
each step.
department, ship's organization, and the proper channels
Immediately after a job is completed, each assigned
and lines of authority which are open to you. The
further up the organizational chain that you progress,
work center and the QAO will review the CWP
the greater your responsibilities become. The job of a
documentation to be sure it is complete and correct. If
supervisor is a detailed one, and most important with
you and your workers have been doing the assigned
respect to the operation of any naval repair activity or
steps as stated, this should not be a problem. Be sure all
facility. A weakness in the performance of any supervi-
verification signature blocks are signed. Make sure all
sory duty or responsibility reduces the effectiveness of
references, such as technical manuals or drawings, are
the work center as a whole.
returned to the appropriate place.
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