NAVFAC OICC China Lake acknowledges Staff of the 12 months

The Naval Services Engineering Command (NAVFAC) China Lake Chief Building Officer (OICC) introduced the winners of the 2023 Worker, Supervisor and Workforce of the 12 months (ESTOY) who will compete towards the winners of all NAVFAC Pacific Echelon IV instructions (CAP); announcement for NAVFAC PAC winners is anticipated in April.

Award recipients
-Worker of the 12 months: Jeff Warfield, Engineering Technician.
-Supervisor of the 12 months: Sal Vargas, Contracting Officer Supervisor.
-Workforce of the 12 months: 12 folks P-1904 Michelson Laboratory Advanced Challenge Supply Workforce, building of three technical laboratories and rehabilitation of two of the eight laboratory wings of the historic Michelson Laboratory.

The accomplishments of every of those people, their sustained contributions to this system, professionalism and management have taken the earthquake restoration program to new heights. I’m honored to call them winners of OICC China Lake 2023 ESTOY! stated OICC China Lake, commanding officer, Captain Ben Wainwright. Their laser focus, as mandated by this distinctive command to revive and advance our nations mission at Naval Air Weapons Station (NAWS) China Lake is second to none.

Worker of the 12 months
Jeff Warfield is the Technical Engineer for Challenge P-1916, Group Help Services, which consists of a multipurpose spiritual facility and new gymnasium, totaling almost 52,000 sq. ft of contemporary services for the bodily and religious well-being of navy and civilian in service aboard the NAWS China Lake which opened its doorways in late 2020 and opened to be used in early 2023.

Warfield additionally serves because the contracting officer’s consultant for a 1,300-bed non permanent worker housing complicated constructed to help the big transient building workforce working at this distant base within the California excessive desert.

Our success has been the standard of individuals related to this program. I can work with group members from the prolonged OICC employees, our mutual companions with NAWS China Lake and Naval Air Warfare Heart Weapons Division (NAWCWD), our contractors and their submarines, stated Jeff Warfield, OICC China Lake, Engineering Technician . In the long run, I am having enjoyable.

Warfield is credited with instrumental contributions to the refinement of particular departmental checklists with native contact factors for all 19 OICC China Lake tasks in three building places of work which help in well-planned and well timed alternative of the construction to finish customers and the development division public.

Supervisor of the 12 months
Sal Vargas serves because the Supervising Contracting Officer, managing a Contracting Officer and three Contract Specialists in help of the development of six labs and check websites throughout the Salt Wells/China Lake Propulsion Laboratory (CLPL) space at NAWS China Lake, among the many most complicated and strategically vital tasks of the Earthquake Restoration program.

Vargas’ choice for Supervisor of the 12 months was based mostly on his hands-on method to personnel administration and management that resulted in an progressive and educated group able to sort out the technically various and logistically difficult tasks within the base’s distant building areas.

My successes are as a consequence of this devoted and skilled group of pros,” stated Sal Vargas, OICC China Lake, contractor supervisor. Their shared purpose of getting these extremely technical check services to the NAWCWD groups on time and inside price range is a sight to behold.

Vargas can be credited with demonstrating targeted mentoring and related coaching for its procurement professionals, with the intention of guaranteeing that every member’s expertise are utilized strategically and that every is empowered to make procurement selections inside inside their very own authorities. An asset to the Earthquake Restoration Program is a completely skilled and licensed group of contractors to carry out the roles of Contracting Officer Consultant and Approved Consultant.

Workforce of the 12 months
The OICC China Lake P1904 Michelson Laboratory Advanced Workforce of the 12 months consists of 12 members from NAVFAC, NAWCWD and Parsons Company. This distinctive, built-in group is tasked with delivering three new buildings and renovating two of the eight wings of the historic Michelson Laboratory utilizing the challenge’s building mannequin to speed up the event of those extremely technical and superior workspaces.
The group consists of Pete Benson, Supervising Normal Engineer (Workforce Lead), Tom Dorfmeister, Necessities Program Supervisor, Lt. John Blum, Director of Building, BJ Harger, Director of Building, Daniel Dickstein, Engineering Technician, Tony Cato , Engineering Technician, Yasaman OBrien , Necessities Supervisor, Gretchen Severon-Ritter, Necessities Supervisor, Josh Rivera, Procurement Officer Consultant for Authorities Supplied Tools, Isabel Seuberling, Necessities Tools Integrator, Heather Brubeck, Supervisor of administrative procurement, and Maura Reyes, contract specialists.

The inspiration of the Groups’ success was their variety of interpersonal expertise, communication ranges, fields of experience and customary focus that helped handle and quickly advance the fast rise of a brand new Michelson chemical analysis facility, environmental laboratory and alternative Lab Machine Store, totaling over 188,000 sq. ft of recent state-of-the-art check and improvement area. Including to the problem is the complicated work of modernizing greater than 50,000 sq. ft of workplace and technical area throughout the Michelson laboratory, initially constructed within the Nineteen Forties.

This group has been working at a relentless tempo to keep up communication and coordination with our companions on this effort. There’s additionally the assessment and processing of modifications to maintain this wholly vital a part of the Michelson Lab building transferring ahead as deliberate, Pete Benson stated. Their efforts and people of RQ Building’s administration group have been evident in a completion ceremony (placement of the final piece of structural metal), simply 13 months after groundbreaking.

The organizational composition of the group constantly contributes to the well timed analysis, assessment and approval of separate building contracts and permits with security regulatory businesses to advance the complicated and wide-ranging testing capabilities of those services. Businesses concerned embody the Design Building Workforce, Naval Ordnance Safety and Security Exercise, Division of Protection Explosives Security Board, Naval Constructions Engineering and Transport Warfare Heart, District County Air Air pollution Management Authority and the NAWS China Lakes PWD.

OICC China Lake was established in August 2020 to supply engineering supervision, procurement and execution for navy building and restore tasks necessitated by the devastating harm from the 6.4 and seven.1 magnitude earthquakes that occurred on July 4 and 5, 2019.