Work at a Virginia shipyard is all in the family DAVE RESS, Daily Press FacebookTwitterEmail NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — Olivia Neville still remembers the time her father, Richard, was in the kitchen wrestling with the lid of a spice container when: “All of a sudden, he said, ‘I’ve got an idea for work,’ and picked up the phone to call it in,” she said. While the Newport News Shipbuilding engineer can’t always talk much about what he does — although the family enjoys tales of trips to the Bahamas and Alaska to work on ships — Olivia says it’s hard to miss his enthusiasm for what he does.