BAE Systems Norfolk Ship Repair Review

How are you the only shipyard that charges for parking, yet you have the worst parking lots?

I love the plate shop, fitter 4 life...
Learn alot and the vets of the trade don't mind showing you the tricks of the trade and standard practices.

Ok, place to work, other then really no smoking areas inside the yard

Security guards are awesome but once inside the workers stare and always seem dirty

Workers range from dependable to very sketchy. Some employees find it OK to urinate and deficate in things other than portable toilets or available facilities. However security is good and strictly enforce safety.

Worst shipyard ever. Hardly anything they worked on during then works, equipment failures, rusted out decks they've worked on. Bad bad bad.

Have been to these yards on four separate navy ships (USS Mount Whitney, USS Porter, USS Monterey, USS Winston S. Churchill) and it has been the same thing every time: pull in, for the first few days make sure whatever guys you have on duty are keeping watch over your spaces because the criminals that work here will bust open a master lock, padlock, etc. and break into your space to steal whatever you have of value. One of my divisional spaces had a master lock securing the space. Came into work, and the space was open, lock was on the floor, cut with bolt cutters. All the cabinets and drawers had been cleaned out. Every tool we had was gone. Paperwork was left there, but everything of monetary value was gone. Coaxial cable, tools, a DVD player, etc. was all stolen. This place is really terrible, and good luck walking to and from your car every day without getting robbed, or your car broken into.

My least favorite yard that I have had the privilege of working in, Globally.

BAE is always scamming. They can't win bids so they punish contractors. Safety don't care, so damn hot that at least once a week and a half people passed out. And parking lot is a joke. Scamming us so they and Towing Company can make a profits.

Shitty place to work. Money hungry because they don't know how to do their job and blame on AITs and other Sub-Contractors. Their own employees don't know how to do their job, burning ship. They're a joke!

Good place to work when business is good a little slow right now.

Hate working here. They make outside contractors pay $2 per day to enter under the guise of parking fees, but you get charged parking fees whether you drive to work or not. If you dont pay you get locked out at the turnstile. Just one of their many scamz

I work here it a great place to be I just want to be put on by Bae

It's a shipyard. People are friendly. Safety first in everything you do.

Dont have anything really to say because I was visiting.

Been here 10 years they have changed a lot over the years still a excellent company to work for

One of the most inefficient places I ve ever been to. You better pray you don t have to go to the understaffed and too small pass office because you WILL wait in line a minimum of one hour. This place cares very little about the workers, productivity, and man hours wasted just standing in line at the pass office. I have no clue how this place got any higher than a 1 star rating.

Porta Johns are nothing more than nasty smoke pits that makes it hard for those who don't smoke

I work nights so I don't deal with the day time drama

Its dirty and the quality of work is sub par. The workers could care less about the condition they leave the ship in.

This is a good place to work if you're wanting to learn a new career they will teach you from the ground up a lot of room for advancement good pay a lot of overtime if you want it good retirement and this is where I work

It's a playground for Ex-Navy. A killer of souls and dreams. Driving morale to an all time low it is guaranteed to scale your ego and self worth down to a .001 of what it actually is. Ran by overbearing, rule enforcing like it's the only part of their job, cut throat backstabbing children it will make you feel like you are in High School again...but worse. The money is okay, they have a nice glass ceiling they make sure to clean daily. Security is laughable, with lack of cameras on the labor force's part of the parking lot. The fact that everyone is punished for one person's mistake is also nice. Overall I would rather sit in a flaming dmv that's blasting Miley Cyrus music while my number never gets called than actually make the conscious decision to ever work here again.

Busy plsce, they aid in the upgrade and changes of naval ships

Shipyard, very nice work environment and chance to advance your skills in your trade. Alot of opportunities

Went for an interview and I answered every question correctly that they asked pertaining to the trade I'd applied for. They tried to low ball me on hourly pay. Went to another company and made out.

Only come here when i have too. Although, the guard was very polite not like they used be.

I don't have a choice when you're in the yards but it's better than Portsmouth yard.

People who work there do a lot of drinking at lunch

Great place to work some people there mess things up

No information posted on their website for Pass and ID, Visit Request forms, etc....caused extensive delay for those travelling from outside the area to get to their designated assignments on board the ships there. Only shipyard (private and Gov't owned) I know to have just a phone number listed in Google that is answered 2 of 9 attempts during normal business hours. Can't speak for daily workers here but for the rest of us that visit here 6-8 times per year, it's very painful. And make sure you turn in your badge to a live person, not the drop box. They claim no responsibility for badges missing from drop box and charge you on the next visit.

Don't leave valuables in your car. Also, if there is a low point in the parking lot, don't park there in the rain unless you're ready for an insurance claim

It could be better But still the 1# Repair Yard Around The USA