Stephen A. Beckley has been appointed technical manager at the New Orleans Division of Todd Shipyards Corporation, it was announced recently by John Meghrian, vice president-Gulf/East Coast Region.

Mr. Beckley comes to Todd with extensive experience both in operations and engineering, and was most recently works manager at Blount Marine in Rhode Island. Prior to this, he was senior manufacturing engineer with the Falk Corporation, and a project manager at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. He served as an officer in the U.S. Navy, and was chief engineer on the USS York County.