Naval Amenities Engineering Methods Command (NAVFAC) Southeast Commanding Officer Capt. Miguel Dieguez introduced his choices for the 2023 NAVFAC Southeast Navy and Civilian Engineer of the Yr awards, Oct. 1.
NAVFAC Southeast’s Civilian Engineer of the Yr was awarded to Renee Dudgeon, undertaking administration department head and Lt. Cmdr. John Orr, crew director for Resident Officer in Cost of Building (ROICC) Trident was chosen because the Navy Engineer of the Yr.
“I congratulate each Ms. Dudgeon and Lt. Cmdr. Orr on receiving this award,” stated Dieguez. “The choice course of was extremely aggressive due to our rock-star cadre of engineers right here at NAVFAC Southeast.”
Dudgeon serves because the Mission Administration Department Head for eight installations within the Gulf Coast area which is particularly susceptible to hurricanes. She has remained instrumental in restoration of installations alongside the Gulf Coast after Hurricanes Sally and Michael.
“There are lots of others in our command that work very exhausting to make their tasks profitable and deserving of this award,” stated Dudgeon. “It’s an honor and privilege to be acknowledged, but it surely would not have been attainable with out the dedication and exhausting work of my teammates.”
Dudgeon and her devoted staff of solely 4, attributable to staffing shortages, have been the driving pressure behind the estimated $453 million in Hurricane Sally restoration efforts that spans 368 services onboard Naval Air Station Pensacola. She additionally managed a $100 million World Contingency Contracting effort in assist of Naval Assist Exercise Panama Metropolis’s restoration from Hurricane Michael.
Orr oversaw around-the-clock development and area engineering within the execution of the $613 million recapitalization of the Kings Bay Dry Dock; one of many largest restore tasks in fashionable naval historical past. This facility is the Navy’s solely East Coast dry dock able to docking strategically-loaded ballistic missile submarines.
“I actually take a look at this as a staff award reasonably than a person accomplishment,” stated Orr. “During the last 12 months, ROICC Trident, within the execution of the Kings Bay Dry Dock Recapitalization undertaking, has carried out at a normal hardly ever seen on the area stage. I’ve been impressed day-after-day, and can’t thank the staff sufficient for every thing they’ve completed.”
His 60-person staff is answerable for development surveillance and engineering on this extremely complicated undertaking that refurbished 1.3 million sq. toes of structural metal, changed submarine assist utilities, and overhauled the a number of flooding and de-watering programs within the dry dock. During the last 15 months, the undertaking employed 1,000 development employees day by day and delivered $1 million of Work In Place every day.
A ribbon chopping ceremony was held Oct. 18 to formally announce the re-opening of the Kings Bay Dry Dock.
Dudgeon and Orr will now compete in opposition to award winners from every regional NAVFAC command for NAVFAC Headquarter’s Civilian and Navy Engineer of the Yr. If profitable, they are going to be eligible for added honors within the prestigious Nationwide Society of Skilled Engineers Federal Engineer of the Yr award program.
