Company Profile
Since 1983 OCC has been servicing east coast clients from Maine to Florida, as well as clients in West Virginia, Louisiana, California, Oregon and Hawaii. OCC has also provided services to international clients located in Aruba, Guam, American Samoa, Ireland, Dubai, Bahamas and Turks and Caicos.
OCC’s headquarters in Trumbull, Connecticut is only 70 miles from midtown Manhattan, the center of New York Harbor. Of the total fifty (50) full time employees company-wide, thirty-one (31) are engineers and fourteen (14) of those engineers are registered professional engineers. OCC employs a total of seventeen (17) engineer-divers, of which ten (10) of those are Professional Engineer-Divers. In 2003, OCC opened its Plymouth, Massachusetts office which is located 40 miles south of Boston Harbor and 32 miles north of New Bedford Harbor. In 2004, OCC opened its third office in Gibbsboro, New Jersey, just 18 miles from downtown Philadelphia and the extensive Delaware River waterfront facilities. Most recently OCC has added a South Carolina office located in Mt. Pleasant, just across the harbor from Charleston.
Quality Assurance
The purpose of a Quality Assurance Plan is to codify Ocean and Coastal Consultants, Inc. (OCC) long-term commitment to customer satisfaction and continuous service improvement. The essential components of company-wide quality are a dedication to exceeding customer expectations, leadership, continuous training and learning, empowerment, and reducing variation in every organizational process. Always working toward this goal will assure the long-term success of OCC as a leader in Marine and Coastal Engineering Services, will differentiate OCC in the marketplace, and secure a position of competitive advantage.
The OCC Quality System is a structured and documented management system describing the policies, objectives, principles, organizational authority, responsibilities, accountability, and implementation plan for ensuring quality in all our work processes, products and services. The Quality System provides the framework for planning, implementing, and assessing work performed by the organization and for carrying out quality assurance procedures and quality control activities. This will ensure that during the prosecution of the work, OCC will provide adequate professional supervision and quality control to assure the accuracy, quality, completeness, and progress of the work.
A Quality Control Plan will document OCC’s Quality System in terms of the organization’s structure, the functional responsibilities of management and staff, the lines of authority, and the interfaces for those planning, implementing, and assessing all activities. OCC previously prepared the Quality Control Plan that OCC utilized for the successful completion of the USACE Arthur Kill Pipeline Location Project.
Management Philosophy
A key requirement for successful task management is a Work Order planning, implementation and monitoring process, which assures satisfactory delivery of work tasks on time and within budget. Necessary ingredients for this include a detailed understanding of the specific work required, and flexible procedures for allocating staff and management resources. To achieve these goals, our management philosophy embodies the following four basic principles:
- Interactive and rapid lines of communication;
- Clarity in assignment of responsibilities and authority;
- Thoroughness in carrying out coordination between the task team and the client, as well as within the study team itself; and
- Commitment of OCC Team resources to fully satisfy client needs.
The task management plan embodies these principles and incorporates the functions, linkages, responsibilities and authorities necessary to conduct the services in the most effective and efficient manner. The Managing Engineer, Mr. Stanley White has the qualifications and skills to develop and execute the management plan.
The Quality Assurance/Quality Control specialist will assist in the review of the technical work plans, maintain files on staff availability and provide technical support and backstopping. For each Work Order, the Managing Engineer will designate the QA/QC specialist who will be responsible for assisting in monitoring the technical progress of the assignment. The Task Leader will report directly to the Managing Engineer, coordinate the flow of technical information, resolve technical problems, etc. While the Managing Engineer will be responsible for administering the numerous ongoing work orders, the designation of a Task Leader among the key personnel assigned to this contract ensures that one individual will maintain day-to-day control over critical technical aspects and backstopping of each assignment while the teams are in the field. In this way, technical problems that arise during field investigations, analysis and reviews can be dealt with expeditiously, thus avoiding slippage of the project schedule. The Task Leaders will be designated for specific types of work orders based on their areas of expertise. They will provide technical continuity from one work assignment to the next. The Task Leaders are also available to serve as Technical Staff in their area of expertise on individual Work Orders. A number of highly qualified professionals, covering all the necessary disciplines required for the project, are available from the project Team's staff.
