Shipwright jobs in Finland
Shipwrights build and repair small type of water vessels from pleasure craft to naval vessels. They prepare preliminary sketches and create templates. They use hand and power tools to construct smaller boat themselves or supervise a team of shipbuilders. They also construct cradles and slipways for the ship’s construction, transportation, launching and slipping. Depending on the vessels, they might work with different materials such as metal, wood, fibreglass, aluminium etc.
Shipwright – how much is the pay in Finland?
What the trade paid in 2024
| Median | 18.49 €/h |
|---|---|
| Bottom tenth | 14.22 €/h |
| Top tenth | 23.50 €/h |
| Employees | 1,346 |
Pay by sex, 2024
| Sex | Median | Employees |
|---|---|---|
| Women | 16.96 €/h | 33 |
| Men | 18.52 €/h | 1,313 |
Shipwright - Which skills are essential?
Prepare metal or other material workpieces for joining processes by cleaning the workpieces, checking their measurements with the technical plan and marking on the pieces where they'll be joined.
The engineering elements like functionality, replicability, and costs in relation to the design and how they are applied in the completion of engineering projects.
The mechanics involved in boats and ships. Understand the technicalities and participate in discussions over related topics in order to solve problems related to the mechanics.
Understand design drawings detailing the design of products, tools, and engineering systems.
Adjust designs of products or parts of products so that they meet requirements.
Align and lay out components in order to put them together correctly according to blueprints and technical plans.
Operate power driven pumps. Use hand tools or power tools. Use vehicle repair tools or safety equipment.
Wear relevant and necessary protective gear, such as protective goggles or other eye protection, hard hats, safety gloves.
Read and comprehend standard blueprints, machine, and process drawings.
The systematic approach to the development and maintenance of engineering systems.
Inspect vessels, vessel components, and equipment; ensure compliance with standards and specifications.
Read the technical drawings of a product made by the engineer in order to suggest improvements, make models of the product or operate it.
Collaborate with engineers to ensure common understanding and discuss product design, development and improvement.
Fasten components together according to blueprints and technical plans in order to create subassemblies or finished products.
Adhere to standards of hygiene and safety established by respective authorities.
Theoretical and practical applications of the science studying the action of displacements and forces on physical bodies to the development of machinery and mechanical devices.
Shipwright - Which skills are useful but not essential?
Detailed knowledge of the different physical components of the vessel. Provide maintenance and care to ensure optimal operations.
Construct moulds for the casting of objects in plaster, clay, glass, plastic or metal. Use casting machines and materials such as rubber, plaster or fibreglass.
Lead, supervise and motivate a group of people, in order to meet the expected results within a given timeline and with the foreseen resources in mind.
The behaviour of solid objects when subjected to stresses and strains, and the methods to calculate these stresses and strains.
The variety of cutting technologies, such as software or mechanics, guiding cutting processes through lasering, sawing, milling etc.
Apply preparatory treatment, through mechanical or chemical processes, to the workpiece preceding the main operation.
Process of applying multiple layers of fiberglass, a strong lightweight plastic reinforced with glass fibre woven into mats, using various techniques such as applying pressure or adhesives, welding or heating in order to provide strength and stability to the composite material. The fibreglass can also be sprayed in liquid form onto products.
Operate welding equipment in a safe manner; use welding techniques such as shielded metal arc welding or flux-cored arc welding.
Measure the size of a processed part when checking and marking it to check if it is up to standard by use of two and three dimensional precision measuring equipment such as a caliper, a micrometer, and a measuring gauge.
Manipulate the properties, shape and size of wood.
The variety of technologies and techniques, such as forging, pressing, stamping, rolling and others, used for the forming processes of metal product manufacturing.
Know a large variety of maritime vessels and their characteristics and specifications. Use that knowledge to ensure that all security, technical, and maintenance measures are taken into account in their supply.
Operate various kinds of tools and equipment used in riveting processes, such a pin hammer and a rivet set, handheld squeezers, a hammer and bucking bar, a pneumatic hammer, a rivet gun, and others.
The various kinds of paint used as coating in manufacturing finishing processes, such as primers, intermediate coats, finish coats, stripe coats, and others.
Qualities, specifications, applications and reactions to different fabricating processes of various types of metal, such as steel, aluminium, brass, copper and others.
The software to perform computer-aided engineering (CAE) analysis tasks such as Finite Element Analysis and Computional Fluid Dynamics.
Use sanding machines or hand tools to remove paint or other substances from the surface of the wood, or to smoothen and finish the wood.
The various sanding techniques (such as gang sanding), as well as the different sanding papers necessary for which surface.
The computer-aided design (CAD) software for creating, modifying, analysing or optimising a design.
Operate cutting and measuring instruments in order to cut/shape pieces of metal into given dimensions.
Use computer-aided design (CAD) systems to assist in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimisation of a design.
Use brushes, rollers, spray guns and other painting equipment in accordance with the work.
Set up the desired product design in the CNC controller of the CNC machine for product manufacturing.
Transport heavy objects using lifting equipment such as cranes, forklifts etc.
The various weapons and weapon systems used to protect citizens and to harm or shield incoming enemies and enemy weapons.
The various types of rivets used in manufacturing, such as solid head rivets, blind rivets, drive rivets, semi-tubular rivets, oscar rivets, flush rivets, and others.
Operate a range of drilling equipment, pneumatic as well as electrical and mechanical. Tend drilling equipment, monitor and operate it, according to regulations. Safely and efficiently drill holes using the correct equipment, settings, and drill bits.
Tend a metalworking machine designed to join metal pieces by automatically shooting mechanical fasteners, rivets, into them, monitor and operate it according to regulations.
Set up and programme an automotive robot working on machine processes and substituting or collaboratively supporting human labour, such as the six-axis automotive robot.