Shipyards · Dry docks · Vessels
Marine & Shipbuilding: Technical Teams for Newbuild, Conversion and Repair
Technical trades and complete crews for shipyards, vessel owners and marine contractors across Europe — newbuild, conversion, repair, dry dock and on board. You direct the work, or we take on a defined scope.
NewbuildConversionRepairDry dockOnboard
Where the work happens
Marine projects run against narrow operational windows — a docking slot, a delivery date, a sailing schedule. The question is whether the right trade is on the work front while the window is open.
01
Newbuild and yard fabrication
Hull sections, structural assemblies and piping fabricated and erected in the yard and in the workshops that supply it. RAM works inside a yard’s own organisation or as a contracted newbuild and ship repair scope.
02
Conversion, repair and refurbishment
Vessels already in service: steel and piping renewal, mechanical and electrical work, outfitting and interior scopes — often several at once, competing for the same access.
03
Dry dock and onboard
Docking periods fixed in advance: hull and plate work, blasting and coating, piping renewal before float-out. Alongside and in service we work through riding squads; offshore units and installations are covered separately.
What RAM supplies into these environments is set out below.
Two ways we work in Marine & Shipbuilding
Model 01
Workforce Solutions
Your yard. Your supervision. Our trades.
Welders, pipefitters, fitters, electricians and complete crews integrated into your own organisation. RAM handles employment, documentation, mobilisation and workforce administration.
- Directs execution
- Your organisation
- RAM supplies
- Trades and complete crews, employment, documentation and mobilisation
- Scope & sequencing
- Held by your organisation
- When it fits
- You own the build or docking programme and need capacity against it
Model 02
Technical Subcontracting
A defined scope. A RAM-managed team.
A package of work rather than additional trades — a fabrication package, a steel or piping renewal area, a defined outfitting or refurbishment scope.
- Directs execution
- RAM, around the contracted deliverables
- RAM supplies
- Trades, supervision and coordination against the agreed scope
- Scope & sequencing
- Deliverables, interfaces and acceptance criteria set out in the contract
- When it fits
- The requirement is a package of work rather than additional trades
Technical capabilities in Marine & Shipbuilding
No.CapabilityScopeContext
01
Welding & Fabrication
Coded welders and fabrication crews for hull, structural and piping work.
Welders 111 · 141 · 136
02
Piping & Pipefitting
Fabrication, installation, repair and modification of piping systems, from workshop spools to installed systems.
On board · workshop
03
Structural & Hull Work
Assembly, erection and renewal of hull plate, bulkheads, decks, frames and structural steel.
Steel fitters · erectors · platers
04
Marine Machinery & Mechanical
Engines and engine-room equipment, mechanical assemblies, hydraulic and pneumatic systems, and installation of marine equipment.
Marine engineers · mechanical fitters
05
Marine Electrical
Installation, repair and maintenance of electrical systems on board, including onboard power distribution.
Marine electricians
06
Outfitting & Refurbishment
Accommodation, galley, service areas and public spaces, with the joinery, insulation and finishing that goes with them.
Carpenters · joiners · insulators
07
Surface Treatment, Blasting & Cleaning
Surface preparation and protective coating, with the industrial cleaning before and after it.
Painters · blasters · tank and hull cleaning
08
Access, Rigging & Lifting
Scaffolding on board and in the dock, rigging operations and lifting support in the yard.
Scaffolders · riggers · crane operators
09
Supervision & Site Coordination
Foremen and supervisors who sequence crews against the docking or build programme and follow up the agreed scope.
Included under Technical Subcontracting; supplied on request under Workforce Solutions
Welding and piping: procedure, qualification and documentation
111
MMA · Manual metal arc
141
TIG
136
FCAW · Flux-cored MAG
RAM supplies coded welders across 111 (MMA / manual metal arc), 141 (TIG) and 136 (flux-cored MAG), selected against the actual welding scope — process, position, material and the access the work front allows.
- Project requirementsWhat the project asks the work to satisfy and document.
- WPS · WPQRHow the weld is to be made, and the qualification basis for that procedure.
- Welder qualificationThe individual qualification range for the processes and variables concerned.
- ExecutionPersonnel selected against those documents, then working the scope.
Personnel are selected against the welding procedures, qualification requirements and project documentation made available for the assignment.
Before we mobilise
01
Understand the work
Vessel, project phase, disciplines and access on board. Headcount is the output of that conversation, not the opening question.
02
Match capability to the task
Process, position, material, system and previous working environment decide who is right for the scope.
03
Check qualifications and documentation
Qualifications, certificates and project-specific documentation checked against what the project, the yard or the vessel asks for.
04
Agree responsibility
Scope, supervision, interfaces and deliverables settled before anyone travels.
Mobilisation
Selected marine project experience
Every photograph below is RAM’s own, from the project named beside it. Location, environment and discipline are shown only where the project record publishes them.
Harstad · Norway
Aluminium shipbuilding workshop
RAM project photography
- Location
- Harstad, Norway
- Environment
- Aluminium shipbuilding workshop
- Discipline
- Shipbuilding
Bahamas · Dry dock
Cruise vessel, dry dock
Installed pipework from the dry-dock scope, from twenty photographs held by RAM.
- Environment
- Cruise vessel, dry dock
- Discipline
- Pipe fitting
Rømø · Denmark
Marine services workshop
- Location
- Rømø, Denmark
- Environment
- Marine workshop
No project photography is published for Rømø. The entry is shown as a record rather than given a stock photograph.
Tell us about the vessel and the scope
What the work is, where the vessel or the yard is, and when it has to start. A final scope is not needed to start the conversation.
Vessel
Or the yard, and the project phase
Location
Where the work is carried out
Schedule
Docking window or delivery date
Scope
Disciplines the work involves
