Company Description
Navantia UK is a UK incorporated company, subsidiary of Spanish Navantia, created to work with UK industrial partners in shipbuilding, defence and in offshore wind energy. With a history that goes back more than 300 hundred years, Navantia is a world reference in the design, building, integration and life cycle support of state-of-the-art war ships for the Spanish Navy and international customers and has extensive experience in ToT programmes.
Job Description

KEY INTERPERSONAL/BEHAVIORAL SKILLS:

• Ability to establish an appropriate course of action for self and/or others to accomplish a goal.
• Effectiveness in identifying possible problems for upward reporting/investigation.
• Ability to express ideas or facts in a clear manner.
• Professional and pro-active work ethic.

RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES

• Interpret engineering drawings to determine the materials required and to plan the order of tasks to cut metal most efficiently.
• Set-out/mark-off work and working area in line with fabrication plan and detail drawings.
• Assemble, fit, and install prefabricated metal parts and components to form 2D and 3D structures.
• Position, align, set and tack assemblies and components into position using lifting/handling equipment such as shop cranes, chain-pulls etc to achieve required geometric, dimensional and fit-up tolerances.
• Set up and operate various heavy-duty metalworking machines such as hydraulic presses, rolls, shears, cutting torches, grinders and drills, to bend, cut, form, punch, drill or otherwise form heavy metal components.
• Experience with overhead cranes and lifting equipment
• Comfortable working at heights and in confined spaces