Bardex launches engineering leadership team

Nathan Shaw

Goleta, Calif.-headquartered Bardex Corporation, a specialist in solutions for marine-based heavy lifting, transfer, and restraint, is making an organizational change within its engineering arm. It has established an engineering leadership team, headed by Nathan Shaw, the company’s current director of engineering.

Shaw says the primary objective of the team is to have a clear and strong sales focus. However, he says, at Bardex, that is not the same thing as having a strong focus on selling. Instead, it is about continuing to improve, adapt, and innovate to meet the ever-changing needs of clients in the shipyard and offshore energy industries, as well as to better serve the shareholders of the 100% employee-owned company.

“I’m excited about the energy and ideas everyone in engineering brings to the company,” says Shaw. “And I’m confident that new leadership will contribute significantly to accomplishing our shared goals.”

The reorganization will see Antonio Osio take on the new role of lifecycle services business unit manager. The unit’s objective will be to grow the spare parts and services portion of Bardex’s business. In this role, Osio will focus on the front-end customer interface, developing field service personnel, and exploring growth opportunities for the life cycle services group.

The other roles within Bardex’s engineering leadership team are as follows:

• Senior design engineering manager (Alexander McAuley). This role will focus on improving project workflow, increasing engineering’s technical abilities, modernizing design software, and streamlining processes.
• Lead proposal engineer (Gary Rhodes). This role is tasked with setting up and formalizing the tendering process within engineering with the goal of streamlining cost-effective and fit-for-purpose solutions.
• Project engineering manager (Sam Maling). This role oversees the technical execution of major projects within Bardex, which involves a team of project engineers and subject matter experts who work cross-functionally with the design engineering group.