Job title: Sunseeker Boat Builder (August 2025 Intake)
Salary: £12.21 per hour on employment, rising to £14.00 per hour after 6 months
Employment type: 24 month fixed term training contract. Sunseeker aims to offer all trainees a permanent contract upon successful completion of training
Training course hours: 7:30am to 4pm, Monday to Friday, for 12 full weeks, at the start of your employment
Working hours: 7:00am to 3:30pm Monday to Friday, plus optional overtime, upon completion of the 12 week training course
Working & training location: Various locations in Poole (Poole College, Sunseeker Shipyards, Sunseeker West Quay Road, Sunseeker Willis Way)

ROLE OVERVIEW:

A career with Sunseeker is a career that will give you more. You’ll learn new skills, make friends for life, and feel an overwhelming sense of pride when each yacht ships for delivery to its new owner.
As a Sunseeker Boat Builder, you will support the manufacturing of yachts by completing tasks across five trades comprising; Composites, Carpentry, Engineering, Electrical and Plumbing.
You won’t need any prior experience to be considered for this role, because we will teach you all the skills and knowledge you’ll need to become a respected member of a yacht build team. All in a new and dedicated boat building training academy, here in Poole.

TYPICAL DUTIES INCLUDE:

• Place construction setup equipment in the boat such as lighting, extraction and other safety interventions
• Join yacht components using composite bonding methods
• Install shelving to hull structures
• Lay bulkheads to hull structures
• Build wooden carcasses into hull layouts
• Install cabin structures such as; structural flooring, ceiling structures and panels
• Fit window bands to interior windows
• Cut bulkhead penetrations from markings
• Install cable containment systems through the boat
• Run and label main cable looms through the boat
• Cut composite materials for through-hull fittings, from markings
• Install distribution/white boards into engine room spaces
• Cut and prepare hard and flexible pipes
• Run straight and pre bent pipes through the boat
• Act as a team member in respect of lifting operations
• Maintain workplace cleanliness and organisation & install boat finish protection systems
• Support skilled trades with any other reasonable boat building tasks