BATH — Bath Iron Works has notified another 84 union and salaried employees that their jobs could come to an end in less than two weeks. The Friday announcement came less than 10 days after the last round of layoffs took effect on March 2.

“I have no way of projecting whether or not those numbers will change,” BIW Spokesman Jim DeMartini said Sunday. “It’s a characteristic of shipbuilding that we have peaks and valleys.”

Much like the last round of layoffs, DeMartini said this action affects 74 union workers on the DDG-51 program — namely electricians, insulators, outside machinists and pipe coverers. In addition, he said that 10 salaried positions not represented by the union are also part of the layoffs.

DeMartini said before these recent layoffs that BIW’s workforce was holding steady at about 5,800 employees. The company is currently at 5,600 employees.

DeMartini said an effort is under way to reduce the number of people to be laid off by determining needs in other production areas. He said much of that shifting depends on the jobs needed and what qualifications the affected personnel have that would allow them to move to a different area.

DeMartini said the layoffs are directly related and in addition to the 130 workers laid off at the beginning of this month. He said the layoffs stem from the declining need for specific skills on the DDG-51 destroyer ships presently under construction at the shipyard.

BIW is completing work on one ship in the DDG-51 line that is due to be delivered to the Navy this spring. A second ship in the DDG-51 line that is also under construction is expected to be delivered next year.

“We’ve had to take action as a result of a declining workload on the DDG-51 class ships,” DeMartini said.

As of now, DeMartini said that BIW is already building one DDG-1000 Zumwalt class guided missle destroyer. The company is working to iron out contracts with the Navy to build one more ship in the DDG-51 class after the current project and two more guided missle destroyers in the DDG-1000 class.