Search for a Gold Coast Course
Job Demand: Medium
Average weekly wage: $1,038
Where you could work:
Boat Building Companies - Riviera Marine, Quintrex, Maratimo
Marinas - Gold Coast City Marina, Sanctuary Cove, Runaway Bay Marina
Boat Builders & Shipwrights do the following tasks:
- Studying plans and specifications, and preparing templates and scale plans for fabrication and cutting of hull sections
- Marking reference points and lines on dry docks and slipways
- Checking position and functioning of slipway apparatus
- Assembling shells of boats and erecting hull sections of ship
- Erecting and preparing launching platforms, conducting pre-launch tests and supervising launching procedures
- Installing masts, frames, decking, fittings, machines, shafts and safety equipment
- Building and installing structures such as cabins, machine mountings, propeller supports and rudders
- Determining repair requirements and procedures
- May make hull moulds and fabricate and repair vessels using materials such as aluminium, wood, glass, reinforced plastics, carbon fibre, Kevlar, fibreglass and concrete
