ABP Southampton: Marine Apprenticeship Scheme / Port Developments
Dec 15, 2015
Lowestoft
Southampton
Hull
Immingham
Newport
Associated British Ports
Teignmouth
TroonAyr
Silloth
Barrow
Fleetwood
Garston
Ipswich
Plymouth
King’s Lynn
Goole
Grimsby
SwanseaPort Talbot
CardiffBarry
Leading provider of port facilities and services via 21 ports in the UK
Throughput – 118.6mt (2013)
ABP handles almost a quarter of UK seaborne trade
ABP owns approx 5,000 hectares of port land
Ports range from Grimsby & Immingham, the UK’s largest complex to smaller sized specialist ports such as Teignmouth
Managing operations within the port safely and efficiently
Develop and operate a Marine Safety Management System to ensure all risks are controlled
Compliance with the Port Marine Safety Code and the Guide to Good Practice on Port Marine Operations
Employ competent and qualified staff
A Harbour Authority’s Role and Responsibility
Day to day responsibility for the safe operation of navigation and other marine activities within the harbour and its approaches
Powers of direction
Co-ordination and regulation of all vessels within a harbour/dock and its approaches
Responsible for the provision and maintenance of aids to navigation
Harbour Master – Roles and Responsibilities
Recruitment and/or succession planning
Recruitment sources: Merchant Navy
Other ports - ABP or non ABP
Other departments
Numbers of suitably qualified staff available from Merchant Navy are decreasing, partly because: Low numbers of cadets entering the profession
Salary differential between sea and shore careers
Promotion of suitable internal candidates alone will not be enough to satisfy demand in coming years
The way forward
Creation of an ABP marine apprenticeship
Aim Prepare a source of quality trained staff to maintain high professional marine
standards and to service our customers’ needs
Objective By the end of their training the apprentice will be capable of performing a key role in
the operational marine team controlling shipping movements at supervisory level
Qualification 5 GCSEs or Scottish Standards, including Maths and English at grade A-C/Level 1-3 A valid manual driving licence
Location Scheme originally based on Humber, but now extended to Southampton May involve work periods at a number of ABP Ports – to give experience in all
operations areas Will include periods on board ships, launches and work boats
The way forward
People who are:
Looking for a career in Port Marine Operations With continuous professional development opportunities
Determined to succeed
Able to work within and, in time, lead a team
Self motivated
Self confident
Self reliant
Format of training periods
Year 1
Personnel inductions
Practical Training (Basic)
Training Courses (Basic)
Year 2
Practical Training (Supervisory)
Marine Department Attachments
Training Courses (Intermediate)
Year 3
South Tyneside College
Other Department Attachments
Secondments to Affiliate Companies and Customers
Year 4
Practical Training (Qualification and On job)
Training Courses (Management)
Are we guaranteeing a job?
NOBUT…….
• Having spent 4 years and £150,000 on training, and
• Anticipating the vacancies we will have going forward……….
Recruitment process
Scheme briefing days took place on: 3rd & 4th April in Ipswich 16th & 17th April in Southampton 24th & 25th April in Ayr & Troon
Applications were returned by 16th May
Interview candidates notified week commencing 9th June
Interviews are to be held in: Ipswich on 19th & 20th June Southampton on 26th & 27th June Ayr & Troon on 3rd & 4th July Immingham on 10th & 11th July
Assessment day will be held in Immingham on 31st July
The selected apprentices start at Immingham on Tuesday 2nd September
OBJECTIVES OF THE GRADUATE SCHEME
To provide learning opportunities mapped against eight key competencies in order to develop graduates into senior managers of the future.
To work with the graduates in establishing the gaps between where they are now against the competency framework.
Help the graduates understand how they might plan and manage their own development and learning to achieve these competencies.
To provide four main categories of training in order to maximise their learning opportunities.
Graduates will acquire knowledge in ten key areas of the business.
SELECTION PROCESS
Key Dates Advertising campaign goes live in October and closes the following January. After initial telephone screening, interviews take place in February / March. A total of 12 candidates are invited to attend an Assessment Centre in late March
/ early April. Up to 3 successful candidates will be offered a position to commence at the end
of August.
Selection Process Approximately 50 candidates are interviewed around the ports by a Personnel
Manager and an Operations Manager. Competency based Interviews are carried out and the candidates are scored on
their responses. A final selection of 12 are then invited to attend the Assessment Centre.
Assessment Centre The Assessment Centre is held over two days. Various activities take place during the two days. A cross-selection of eight selectors are chosen from the business to monitor and
evaluate the candidates and to put forward the three to be offered a position.
GRADUATE PROGRAMME
The programme runs for 13 months.
The scheme is structured but has sufficient flexibility to take advantage of development opportunities.
First 2 days spent at Head Office being inducted.
Next 5 weeks spent at Ipswich having hands-on experience in practical cargo handling
Graduates then separated and sent to a major port for their first six-month placement.
At the end of the six-months the graduates are then rotated for a further six-month placement at another major port.
A business mentor and a buddy are assigned to each graduate on their six-month placements.
• The UK’s second largest Container Port
• Northern Europe’s largest turnaround cruise port
• Leading car handling port
• Bulk handling terminals
• Sole importer for Canary Island Fruit
• Petrochemicals
ABP Port of Southampton – Cargoes Handled
Southampton Container Terminal
- Largest ships in the world
Responding to newest vessels:
400m LOA
55m wide
15.5m draught
Up to 15,000 containers (TEU)
4 deep-sea berths at container terminal
201/2 berth re-developed as SCT5
Has required re-facing of existing berth – lowering from -10.2m CD to -16m
ABP Port of Southampton – Container Terminal
Southampton Approach Channel Dredge
Access window will improve to 47% (from 22% for 14.5m vessels)
ABP Port of Southampton – Improved Access
…best not to see her from this angle!!!
Length overall - 396 metres
Beam - 53.6 metres
Draught - +15 metres
DWT (tonnes) - 187,625
Capacity - 15,000 TEU
= 4 football pitches long,
½ a football pitch wide