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Boat and Ship Builders and Repairers

Boat and ship builders and repairers construct, install and repair wooden structures and fittings, and shape, position, rivet and seal metal plates and girders to form the metal structures and frameworks for marine craft.

Wages

New workers
AVERAGE
Experienced
£ 17,240
£ 30,618
£ 41,912

New workers start around £17,240. Normal pay is £30,618 per year. Highly experienced workers can earn up to £41,912.

Available jobs

In the past year there were 6,871 vacancies for this type of job

2.65%

Projected job growth over the next 8 years

Related courses

People work towards these careers by taking these courses at college and uni.

What they do most days?

  • Maintains and repairs woodwork and fittings.

  • Aligns and fixes prepared wood pieces by screwing, nailing, gluing and dowelling to form decking, small wooden marine craft and their interiors and fittings.

  • Selects and measures appropriate wood and cuts, shapes and drills to specification using saws, planes, chisels and other power or hand tools.

  • Rivets together metal plates and girders, seals seams, smoothes welds, fixes metal doors, collars, portholes, tank and hatch covers.

  • Uses machine tools to bend, curve, punch, drill and straighten metal plate as required and positions and aligns metal platework or frame for welding and bolting.

  • Uses rules, scribes and punches to mark out metal plate with guidelines and reference points and cuts plates using appropriate tools.

  • Examines drawings and specifications to determine job requirements.

Hard Skills

Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Carpentry

  • Boat Building

  • Drilling

  • Power Tool Operation

  • Hand Tools

  • Lamination

  • Upholstery

  • Tapping

  • Painting

  • Door Hinges

Soft Skills

Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Detail Oriented

  • Communications

  • Positivity

  • Strong Work Ethic

  • English Language

  • Problem Solving

  • Management

  • Operations

  • Mathematics

  • Teamwork

How do I get a job like this?

People in these types of job started their career paths after studying courses like the ones below.

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