Job title: Boatyard Operative
Responsible to: Boatyard Team Leader
Location: Based in Flushing, Falmouth, Cornwall
Remuneration: Competitive package to include private health care, matched pension contributions and life and accident insurance
Initial three month contract
Working as part of the yard team, the boatyard operative role is key to the success of the boatyard and you will be joining an expereinced team.
Falmouth Boat Co. is looking to recruit an experienced boatyard operator to assist with lifting and launching of boats and all other boat movements around the yard.
You will be self-motivated and a team player, willing to lend a hand where it’s needed with a commitment to high customer service.
You will also have the ability to work flexible hours to reflect the seasonal and tidal nature of the business.
You will have a broad range of boatyard and boat handling skills, which include lifting and launching vessels and unstepping/stepping small masts.
Experience of maintaining plant would also be an advantage.
Depending upon your skillset, you will be working with other staff to deliver projects across the spectrum of our activities.
Some examples of what you will do and the skills required are:
- Launch and recover all vessels using onsite marine equipment (hoist, telehandler, winches)
- Act as banksman during lift operations
- Cradle and block off vessels
- Operate and maintain wash down facility
- Tow boats within the Carrick Roads area
The role will include outside work, for full working days even in inclement weather.
There will also be certain activities that require manual handling of large and heavy materials and equipment.
REQUIREMENTS
Staff responsibilities
- Working as part of the team co-coordinating and maximising the efficient use of your time
- Flexible approach to working hours is important to meet the ebb and flow of the season
- Working as part of the team in compliance with the company’s policies and procedures
- Maintaining the quality of our service
- Assisting in ensuring all of your activities are compliant with company Health and Safety rules and regulations
Client responsibilities
- Engaging with the clients while working on their vessels, promoting all the services of the company and underpinning their confidence in our activities
- Representing the company, its principals and standards to any prospective client
Person specification
Function essential
- Broad range of boatyard and boat handling skills including lifting and launching vessels and unstepping/stepping small masts
- Experience of skippering and crewing RIBs and launches
- General knowledge of build and maintenance of sail and power boats
- Evident experience in boat handling of all types with a high level of safety
- Experience of pressure washing boats
- Deep awareness of Health and Safety principals and policies within a similar organisation
- Good verbal and written skills
- Full driving licence
Function desirable
- Crane/hoist/banksman certification
- Skipper/crew certification
People
- Ability to integrate and work with a well-established and experienced team of staff
- Ability to work with and for clients to meet their requirements
General
- Highly organised, confident and pro-active
- Analytical, innovative, creative and flexible
About us:
Falmouth Boat Co. is the service brand of Falmouth Boat Construction Ltd.
We are a privately owned small boatyard based on the south coast of the south west of the UK in Flushing, Falmouth in Cornwall.
With a turnover slightly in excess of £1.5m and a staff base of 30, our primary activities are based around the service and repair of all water borne craft up to 100ft and 100 tonnes.
Our most regular market is 30-50ft yachts and leisure craft for refit and repair, complemented with commercial craft servicing up to 60ft.
Our leisure clients range from a spectrum of self-employed tradesmen and wealthy professionals to retired locals.
Our commercial clients are primarily local and range from harbour authorities to towage companies.
We are very proud to be one of the few repair yards in the country appointed to undertake repair work on RNLI craft and on the Isles of Scilly NHS ambulance boat.
We have limited facilities afloat so all our clients choose to come to us rather than feeling obliged through a mooring lay-up arrangement.
We also undertake a large amount of insurance repair work. This is more often than not the first time that new clients meet us and post repairs, hopefully to return in the future. This is the biggest growth area of our customer base.
The majority of our activities are based in Falmouth, on and around our own site, but we are also planning to open a site on the Isles of Scilly this spring. We work offsite and overseas when required.
We are busy and continue to expand.
If you would like to apply for this role please complete the form to the right hand side of this screen. Alternatively, download the form via the button below, complete and email to enquiries@falmouthboat.co.uk.
We are keen to recruit as soon as possible - so please note that the closing date is notional, so you are advised to get your application in as soon as possible.
