Whether you are searching for Marine Electricians, Shipfitters, or Pipefitters, the search for qualified skilled trades people with marine industry experience can be difficult. In our niche market, marine staffing has it’s own set of diverse challenges that can be difficult for those inexperienced in the industry to overcome. Let’s face it marine contractors across the world are able to find talent and get in forward motion, so the questions remains how do they do it?

While creating and maintaining a marine workforce is no easy feat, those who excel in the industry can assure you it can be done and be done well. So what makes someone a leader in marine staffing? Here’s a few tips:

• You must be an industry expert. While experience in hiring skilled trades people for general construction and industrial work may give you some level of experience, it cannot compare to those who work solely in the shipyards. In order to staff a marine workforce, you must be knowledgeable in the skills and experience required for each position, the industry regulations, and be able to evaluate a candidate’s skill set quickly.
• You must be a marine talent expert. Understanding what it takes to complete a project and being able to identify the talent needed to excel at a project can be two different things. Hiring marine craftsmen successfully takes a strong knowledge base of the skills, aptitude, and knowledge needed for each role you staff in the project. Mediocre talent makes for mediocre project results.
• You must be able to locate and mobilize a marine workforce quickly. Marine contractors don’t have time to wait for you to build a pool of marine construction staff. Providing marine contractors with experienced skilled trades people quickly and efficiently is the key to maintaining a strong relationship.
• Be a maritime safety expert. Providing safe maritime construction workers is the key to keeping a job site moving. OSHA Maritime Safety Training should be a critical part of your on boarding process as well as pre-employment and random drug screenings. Making sure your maritime construction staff is equipped with the proper PPE can be a small step in saving costly injuries and down times.

Maritime construction requires extraordinary marine engineering and project management. Providing top talent marine craftsmen is not an easy task. In an industry where experienced talent and good wages are hard to find, more often than not maritime construction workers are not located near the job site. In order to excel at staffing maritime construction, you must excel at locating, qualifying, and dispatching local and non-local marine craftsmen.

Want to learn more about how you can gain access to Trillium’s national network of experienced marine construction workers? Contact us today!  If you are a stand out skilled trades worker seeking short or long term career opportunities, visit our job seekers section for more information!

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