Carpentry Supervisor
Role Overview
The Carpentry Supervisor oversees marine carpentry work for vessel construction, repair, and interior fit-out.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
The Carpentry Supervisor oversees marine carpentry work for vessel construction, repair, and interior fit-out.
Qualifications
- Minimum 5 years of relevant carpentry experience, including supervisory experience.
- A technical diploma or vocational qualification in carpentry, joinery, or a related field is preferred.
- Shipbuilding, ship repair, yacht construction, or marine interior fit-out experience is an advantage.
Responsibilities
- Supervise carpenters and joinery workers in fabricating, assembling, installing, and repairing marine carpentry components.
- Oversee vessel interior installation and finishing, including cabins, doors, partitions, cabinets, furniture, ceilings, wall panels, and decorative fittings.
- Plan daily work, allocate manpower, and monitor project progress.
- Read engineering drawings, layouts, dimensions, and technical specifications.
- Inspect materials, fabrication, installation, and finishing against drawings, project requirements, and marine quality standards.
- Monitor timber, plywood, laminates, hardware, adhesives, and other materials; minimize waste and coordinate supply needs.
- Coordinate with engineering, production, electrical, mechanical, painting, and other departments.
- Supervise onboard installation, modification, refurbishment, and repair work.
- Assign duties, monitor attendance and productivity, guide workers, and maintain adequate staffing.
- Ensure safe use and maintenance of carpentry machinery, power tools, and workshop equipment.
- Enforce shipyard safety procedures, PPE use, safe material handling, housekeeping, and applicable permit requirements.
- Prepare daily progress reports, raise delays and technical issues, and update the Production Manager.
Additional duties
Identify technical issues, measurement discrepancies, and installation challenges and coordinate corrective actions.
Ensure completed work is inspected, defects are rectified, and areas are ready for client or quality inspection.
Recommend improvements to workmanship, productivity, material use, and work methods to reduce rework.
Workplace
- The posting specifies in-person work.
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