Training
Training
We Flensburg shipbuilders are like one big family. Indentification with the company is so engrained that for many employees, a job at the shipyard is a job for life. It’s not unusual for two or three generations of the same family to work with us. The mixture of young, dynamic, workers and older, very experienced ones, is very effective.
What unites everybody is the fact that they are exclusively highly skilled specialists. In the trades sector for example that means about 140 welders, about 120 fitters and 80 shipbuilders.
About 100 engineers and designers are responsible for the planning of the ship. Almost every job is held by a specialist in his field to guarantee the top design and manufacturing competence of the FSG.
Construction Mechanic - Shipbuilding
The construction mechanic, whose field of operation is shipbuilding, assembles the sections and modules for newbuildings from individual parts and turns them into finished ship hulls. He uses existing drawings and other technical data sources to complete the task professionally and to stipulated quality requirements.
The basis metalworking apprenticeship teaches manual metal cutting, drilling, winch reaming and the cold forming and processing of geometric bodies as well as cutting with plate and profile shears, cutting with machine power saws and machine metal cutting. The learning programme also includes welding techniques such as gas fusion welding and hard soldering, manual arc welding and inert gas welding (MAG).
Other key training areas are thermal separation using hand cutting and manually controlled equipment, the handling of molded components, bending and rolling of metals, forming and straightening of metal pipes and profiles and carrying out assembly work.
Construction Mechanic – Welding
The construction mechanic whose field of speciality is welding technology, works closely with other construction mechanics and welds all components in and on the new ship.
He uses different hand and machine-controlled welding methods to complete the task professionally and to stipulated quality requirements.
The basis metalworking apprenticeship teaches manual metal cutting, drilling, winch reaming and the cold forming and processing of geometric bodies as well as cutting with plate and profile shears, cutting with machine power saws and machine metal cutting.
The learning programme also includes welding techniques such as gas fusion welding and hard soldering, manual arc welding and inert gas welding (MIG, MAG and WIG) as well as oxy-acetylene welding.
Other key training areas are thermal separation using hand cutting and manually controlled equipment, the basics of electro-technology, the separation and forming of components as well as grinding, torch cutting and seam slicing and the use of controlled manufacturing processes and automatic welding equipment.
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Construction Mechanic – Equipment Technology
The design mechanic whose area of responsibility covers equipment technology is active mainly in pipe fabrication and constructs the required high-quality plant and systems for ship operation.
He uses existing drawings and other technical data sources to complete the task professionally and to stipulated quality requirements.
The basis metalworking apprenticeship teaches manual metal cutting, drilling, winch reaming and the cold forming and processing of geometric bodies as well as cutting with plate and profile shears, cutting with machine power saws and machine metal cutting. The learning programme also includes welding techniques such as hard and soft soldering, gas fusion welding and soldering, manual arc welding and inert gas welding (MAG, MIG and WIG).
Other key training areas are thermal separation, both by hand and using manually controlled equipment, the design, marking out and building of Templates and flat patterns, the forming and welding of plastics and the marking out, fabricating and assembly and dismantling of components, component groups and pipe systems for ship plants.
Industrial Mechanic – Plant and Machinery
The industrial mechanic with responsibility for machinery and plant engineering assembles and installs the sophisticated machinery plant and supply systems on board our newbuildings.
He is responsible for the assembly, testing and start-up of plant and systems and uses existing drawings and other technical data sources to complete the task professionally and to stipulated quality requirements.
The basis metalworking apprenticeship teaches manual metal cutting, drilling, winch reaming and the cold forming and processing of geometric bodies as well as cutting with plate and profile shears, cutting with machine power saws and machine metal cutting. The learning programme also includes welding techniques such as gas fusion welding and hard soldering, and manual arc welding.
Other key training areas are thermal separation using hand cutting and manually controlled equipment, installation and testing of control technology hydraulic and pneumatic switching equipment, function checking of numerically-controlled components, machinery and systems as well as electro-technical components on board the new ships.
Specialist Warehouse Operator
A specialist warehouse operator is needed wherever there are goods to be warehoused, whose on-time delivery and regulation storage must be organised. The goods he is responsible for can be of any kind. They require handling by skilled workers who have been trained to know exactly how to deal with them.
They accept goods and check them in, tag them and transport them to their designated storage places. They also sort goods and sometimes also pack them. To do this they utilise information and communications systems so that every individual item can be found again where it is supposed to be.
The work undertaken by a specialist warehouse operator is many-sided and demands a high degree of responsibility and organisational talent. He is not only responsible for the skilled handling of goods, but must also see to it that employees do not find themselves in dangerous situations during loading and unloading. A pronounced sense of order is also important as is the willingness to do his job under many different climatic conditions.
