Organisation
Main organisational chart
The Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft mbH & Co. KG is a company with flat horizontal management, such that decisions can be taken in the shortest possible time.
Each customer has a single point of contact, which is open to him at all times. This increases flexibility for the customer and ensures transparency in the decision-taking process.
Design
Two dedicated teams of designers and developers work closely together in the Design and Research and Development departments. (FSG offers very attractive positions in these sections to well-trained personnel.)
With an average age of just over 40 there are many young, open-minded and innovative engineers in both teams, who find ideal support from colleagues with many years of experience. 75% of all employees have university qualifications, mainly in shipbuilding, engineering and electrical engineering.
As well as the engineers there are designers with valuable practical experience, who have often worked and learned at the yard and then made their way via further education into the design departments as master craftsmen or technicians.
Planning
We have never delivered a newbuilding late for about 20 years. The conditions for this extraordinary feat were created by the planning department.
What makes it possible are detailed manufacturing and planning standards. These begin in the method planning and work preparation stage which also includes all the required logistics. Using lots of experience and the most modern know-how we have created efficient procedures which make for perfect co-operation between planning and production.
All our employees have a single aim: to continue to delivery ships on time and within budget.
Production
Our company employs about 700 people. More than 500 of them are involved in production.
The core competencies of our qualified personnel lie in shipbuilding, welding technology, equipment technology, machinery and plant engineering, operating technology and scaffolding.
To consistently meet the high demands of FSG quality standards, we train motivated young people in our own training workshop. As with career training, regular professional qualification and further career training in production is a fixed component part of our daily work.
The operational readiness and flexibility of our personnel as well as their identification with the product slogan “Made by Flensburger” are guarantees of high quality and deadline reliability. They are made possible by a high degree of self responsibility and a sense of responsibility, swift decision-taking procedures and a horizontal management structure.
Quality
In order to turn out complex and high-value products, quality has to be actually ‘lived’ by every employee. For this reason responsibility for quality at our yard rests in the hands of individual departments.
The quality control system supports all sectors, to enable individual quality targets to be achieved and it conducts its own construction component inspections. A team of ten employees with many years of experience and different qualifications is available for this.
Standards
In every stage of production we have established standards which guarantee the high quality of newbuildings delivered within budget and on time. This starts with building methods and leads via planning and fabrication to the quality standard. We at Flensburger-Schiffbau Gesellschaft leave nothing to chance and we concentrate on delivering to customers their perfect ship.
In most instances, our own standards exceed the "Fabrication Standard of German Shipbuilding". Above and beyond this ourselves have also developed a construction catalogue in which drawing standards, standardised design solutions, transport methods and fabrication methods are laid down.
In all shipbuilding sectors, we practise a ‘best possible method’ construction policy. Our motto is to identify all problems or potential areas of discord before they happen and not on the actual building site. We do that with every project, creatively, and by drawing on our wealth of experience.
