Diverse job roles

Passionate about shipbuilding

Meyer Turku professionals boast world-class expertise that cannot be found anywhere else. The shipyard employs a wide range of top professionals across a variety of fields, all with a shared goal and a passion for shipbuilding. 

Slightly over half of our personnel work in an office and the remaining half in production. Our office staff includes designers, work supervisors, area managers, project managers, production controllers, buyers, development engineers and ICT experts.  

In production, our employees include platers, welders, pipe fitters, logistics and warehouse workers and electricians, for instance.

The most rewarding part of the job is seeing my work in the completed ships.

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A designer is responsible for a wide variety of duties related to cruise ship design, including exploring new alternatives and providing the procurement department with technical specifications.

Designers may specialise in electrical, HVAC, mechanical, interior, hull or outfitting design. The job description for a System Responsible includes technical equipment design and assuming overall responsibility for a system. Technical team leaders oversee the entirety of their respective design fields.

Qualifications: 

  • a degree in technology (university or university of applied sciences)

Project management positions involve either ship projects or the shipyard’s operational development and investment projects. Project engineers have overall responsibility for project management. The work includes leading the project group and monitoring costs, schedules and quality. In addition to the above duties, the job description for a ship project manager includes serving as the customer’s contact person. An assistant project manager works under the project manager. 

Qualifications: 

  • A degree in technology or business (university or university of applied sciences)

The shipyard purchases a wide variety of products and services, and procurement scopes are highly diverse. The procurement department is responsible for purchasing technical solutions, components as well as turnkey deliveries and subcontracting. The primary role of the procurement department is to cooperate with other shipyard functions and focus on overall costs. 

The procurement department places tens of thousands of orders each year, ranging from small regular orders to single orders of extremely high value.

The procurement department ensures timely deliveries and material availability in accordance with production needs. The department holds full responsibility for the commercial and legal aspects of our procurement agreements. 

The buyers in this department are responsible for procurements in their own product area throughout the process, cooperating closely with the design department System Responsible. 

Qualifications: 

  • A degree in technology or business (university or university of applied sciences)

Logistics is responsible for precision tasks related to receiving and storing materials and delivering them to specific production sites. The logistics department also manages the internal logistics for outfitting and hull production. Supervisory work in logistics involves leading and developing warehouse functions and the flow of internal logistics. Logistics engineers and specialists are tasked with developing the logistics processes. Logistics also includes a variety of operational roles, such as warehouse workers or drivers for block transporters and other transport machinery. 

Qualifications: 

  • for managerial and specialist roles: a degree from a university or a university of applied sciences 
  • for operational roles: upper secondary education / vocational degree / training in logistics equipment operation

Production employs professionals across a vast range of fields, from skilled trades (such as welders, platers and mechanical or electrical fitters) to supervisory positions of varying degrees of responsibility.

The shipyard has several production departments in hull production and outfitting. The departmental structure is based on the various processes of shipbuilding. Each production department works under a department manager.

Department engineers assist the department manager in various development-related assignments. A department engineer may also hold operational responsibility for a production unit, with a supervisor reporting directly to them.

Production supervisor duties may be administrative, operational or focused on the coordination and oversight of partner companies and/or turnkey suppliers.

The outfitting area manager is responsible for leading a specific outfitting production area. They supervise, guide and monitor operations with regard to progress, scheduling and production quality. They are also the shipyard’s primary representative towards the turnkey suppliers. 

Qualifications: 

  • for supervisory roles: technical training programme / technician / degree from a university of applied sciences 
  • operational roles: upper secondary school / vocational degree / Shipbuilding School courses

Wide-ranging expertise is a competitive edge for the Meyer Turku shipyard. The shipbuilding industry offers interesting and varied career opportunities for experts across several fields. Ensuring smooth and safe operations across a variety of duties requires a large number of professionals with diverse educational backgrounds. The shipyard employs specialists across a range of roles, including HR, IT and cybersecurity, maintenance, finance and ERP systems. 

Qualifications: 

  • Varies by role

The atmosphere is always good, and help is available when needed.