Galvin Marine - Level 2 - Apprentice Service Engineer (Multiskilled Maintenance)

About Us.
Galvin Marine Engineering Ltd are a small family-owned business operation from workshops in Oldbury, West Midlands. Galvin was founded in 2020 by engineer Jim Keetley and his partner Sara Ashford. Jim runs the engineering side of the business in the workshop and out on site. Sara looks after the administration along with wages and paperwork. We support customers in the shipping, offshore drilling and power generation industries. We carry out repair and full overhauls on high and medium speed diesel and gas engines on ships, oil rigs and power generation plants in the UK and Overseas. We sometimes work in what can be classed as dangerous locations such as West Africa and the Middle East.
We attend vessels for emergency breakdowns and for the planned overhaul of engines. The engines we work on vary but the most common are as follows:
• CAT
• Bergen
• MAN
• Wartsila
• EMD

Our Workshop.
Our workshop is small and only one year old but after heavy investment it is well equipped. In the workshop we overhaul components such as water pumps, oil pumps and cylinder heads that are sent to us from customers. These components are stripped, cleaned, calibrated and tested. We then submit a full overhaul report before sending the parts back to the customer for installation onto there engines. As we are a small company and only 4 years old, we are still building this side of the business, so the workshop is not always busy. In the not so busy times, we will be fabricating tooling and equipment for future use in the workshop. We also make a lot of our own tooling.

On-Site.
Working on-site is usually in a shipyard located somewhere in the UK but as mentioned above is sometimes on oil rigs or vessels overseas. On-Site we can be carrying out a repair to get a vessel back to work as quickly as possible or we could be conducting the full strip down and rebuild of a large diesel engine. This job is not for people who want to be home at weekends or don’t like been away from family and friends. On some occasions we have worked away from home for periods of 8 weeks. This is 8 weeks with no days off working 10-12 hours every day. If this doesn’t put you off and you have a genuine love for engineering, then this industry offers you a genuinely good future.

The candidate.
Make no mistake, this is not a normal job and is highly demanding. You will be expected to mobilise to site sometimes at very short notice. You may be required to work away from home for long periods of time, you may also be required to work weekends and bank holidays whilst away on projects.
You will only be successful in this role if you really have a passion for engineering of mechanical equipment. This industry is extremely demanding but also extremely rewarding.
If none of this has put you off this could just be the job for you. Good time keeping and good presentation in front of the client is a must. On completion of your apprenticeship, you will be entering an industry offering very good money and travel opportunities. You will be joining a company that is planning to become the best diesel engineering business in the UK.

What we offer.
We are a very small company, but our aim is to grow to five engineers in the next four years. We do not wish to be a big company, we wish to remain small and agile. We have an excellent reputation for customer service and quality. We are now winning work from some major marine and oil and gas companies. Because we are small, we believe you will receive better attention when it comes to learning than you would with some of the larger companies. You will work side by side with Jim and other experienced engineers learning all aspects of the job.
You will do block release training at MAKE UK as well as other courses offered by MAKE UK such as milling, machining and welding.

Overtime after 40 hours per week = time and a half
Holiday 28 days including bank holidays