The difference between a shipyard contract manager and project manager

Shipbuilding projects involve a whole range of individuals at various stages of the build but two people are integral to the success, the Contract Manager, and the Project Manager. We deal with busy managers from across the shipbuilding sector and all-round the UK every day. Our experience has helped us understand their needs differently so…

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Shipbuilding and marine recruitment – getting the right labour

With any shipbuilding project, hitting key milestones and deadlines is critical for Production Directors, and Managers. The right labour doesn’t just mean the correct experience and qualifications, it’s ensuring a reliable flow of skilled trades at the appropriate points of the project. But it’s not as easy as it sounds when shipbuilding projects have peaks…

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SLR participates at the Shaping Portsmouth Conference 2023

Last Friday the SLR team had the privilege of exhibiting at the Shaping Portsmouth Conference 2023. It was a truly inspirational and humbling event packed with incredible speakers, charities, businesses, local government, and Armed Forces participants. Purpose of the conference This year’s conference slogan was Transforming Portsmouth Together. The mission of Shaping Portsmouth is to…

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Opportunities for industrial painters with SLR

Everybody starts somewhere, for SLR it was providing industrial painters for various sites around the UK. Because this is where we started, we have stacks of in-house expertise in this role. What this means is clients will come to us every single time they have vacancies for industrial painters. They know that we understand this…

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Paying a candidate what they’re worth

Over the last year, there’s been much reporting about attracting and retaining talent. The pandemic changed the working landscape not just in terms of job roles and shifting processes and ways of working online.

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