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Marine Crafts Person Careers

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Work Environment:

As a marine crafts person, you'd work with shipbuilding and ship conversion and repair firms. In small boatyards and marinas, you'd work for boat building, maintenance and repair companies. The job can consist of work such as constructing hulls on oceangoing vessels, and reinstating the installations and fixtures on conventional narrow boats.

Being a marine crafts person, you'd employ pluming, painting, welding, electrical and carpentry skills, with conventional marine craft expertise such as sail making and rigging. You'd deal with materials such as wood, steel sheet and FRP/GRP (Fiber/Glass Reinforced Plastics).

In small maritime craft, your tasks could comprise:

  • defining construction supplies utilizing engineering design patterns
  • installing the craft with furniture, communication and navigation equipment, lighting and heating and, if suitable, rigging
  • cutting, shaping and welding sections/parts
  • fixing engines
  • fabricating boat segments and pipe work
Within a shipyard/dockyard, you'd work on tankers, bigger ships, and oil and gas platforms for seaward sites.

Qualification, Education and Experience:

You might be capable to gain entry in this profession as a maritime industry trainee. The availability of Traineeships within your sector will rely on the regional employment market and the kind of abilities employers want from employees.

Companies/employers might ask for GCSE grades (A to C) into subjects such as design and technology, science, mathematics, engineering and English, or corresponding qualifications.

As a substitute, you might be capable to acquire an engineering academy course, to train you with some skills which are required for this work. These courses comprise BTEC: Diplomas and Certificates into Electronic, Electric or Mechanical Engineering. You can also acquire a qualification high level, like HND/HNC into Marine Engineering.

You might discover experience and/or qualifications in different craft fields like plumbing, welding or joinery helpful while searching for job.

A few colleges based in conventional boat building field might execute preliminary courses into maritime crafts. These are chiefly founded in the south west, alongside the south coastline and East-Anglia. You can also confirm with coastal and inland leisure harbors for probable openings. You might have to relocate to discover job chances, unless you reside in or close to these sectors.

Visit the websites of IMarEST (Institution of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology), SEMTA and British Marine-Federation, for further details regarding careers into marine engineering.

Training Details:

Your company/employer would generally give you training at work. You might also be motivated to acquire different vocational qualifications, like:

  • City and Guilds: Second and Third levels Certificate into Boat Building, Maintenance and Support (includes boast and yacht building, hull fabrication, fitting out and engine-systems)
  • NVQ: Second and Third levels in Marine Engineering
  • BTEC: National Diploma or Certificate into Engineering (Maintenance and Operations)
  • NVQ: Second and Third levels in Engineering Maintenance
  • NVQ: Third and Fourth Levels in Marine Engineering Operations

Visit the website of British Marine-Federation, for further details regarding related qualifications, where you can also get information on training course providers providing courses like:

  • LPG (Liquid Petroleum Gas)
  • wire or rope splicing
  • laminates and composites
  • electrics and plumbing
Check the websites of IMarEST (Institution of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology), for additional information on advanced academic courses and professional training.

Skills and knowledge:

  • understanding of CAD (Computer Aided-Design) software packages if concerned in ship design
  • outstanding communication abilities
  • the capability to operate as a member of team
  • physically fit and healthy
  • fine problem solving skills
  • outstanding practical abilities
  • the capability to comprehend technical diagrams and plans
  • excellent IT and mathematical proficiency

Salary and Other Benefits:

  • Initial remunerations for marine crafts person can be about £14,000 to £18,000 annually.
  • Earnings of an eligible marine crafts person can range from £19,000 to £24,000.
  • A superior crafts person can receive over £26,000 yearly.

Working Conditions:

You'd work weekly for 38 to 41 hours. You may need to work on weekends/shifts containing night shifts, for urgent repair-work.

A few boatbuilding and shipbuilding can be completed in big covered sheds, although most work would be accomplished outdoor in all climates. Working circumstances can be dirty and confined sometimes, and a few works might include operating at heights.

Different Opportunities:

You'd discover chances of work on bigger vessels chiefly in the dockyards of Northern Ireland, north of England and Scotland. Employment opportunities in boat building and repair are likely to be on small scale and are discovered in coastal regions, particularly around the East Anglia, south west and south east.

By experience and qualifications, you can proceed to level of technician; or enter in the field of maritime design or special-equipment sales and support. You can utilize your abilities to shift into the construction engineering or broader engineering businesses.

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