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Boat and Ship Builders and Repairers

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About this career

£30,135

Median salary

New workers start around £18,920.57. Normal pay is £30,135 per year. Highly experienced workers can earn up to £45,969.00.

Jobs

Subjects achieved a 100% pass rate, including Maths, Further Maths, Physics, English Literature and Spanish.

Daily Tasks

  • 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, smooths 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.

Skills

Job postings

Learning Strategies
58
Critical Thinking
52
Mathematics
48
Reading Comprehension
46
Writing
42
Active Listening
41
Active Learning
41
Monitoring
37
Speaking
37
Science
33