Chantiers de l'Atlantique launched a major poster campaign Tuesday to close their workforce needs for 2019, estimated at 400 positions. The shipyard of Saint-Nazaire, however prosperous, is struggling to recruit. "In 2019, Chantiers de l'Atlantique is recruiting more than 400 people on open-ended contracts in more than 50 trades, with more than 200 people on permanent contracts already recruited since the beginning of the year," the company said. one of the world's leading shipbuilders.
Unlike the usual campaigns, it is posted on the Breton coast, in railway stations and airports of the West, then will travel to the Montparnasse station in Paris and will go into "employment areas in tension as the eastern regions and Center, "she added. The shipyard is looking for workers but also technicians and engineers.
Chronic difficulties of manpower
It faces chronic labor difficulties, despite its 150 years of activity and a packed order book for the coming decade, driven by the global growth of cruise tourism. The company will also launch in the fall its "Ecole Chantiers de l'Atlantique", which will offer on-site training courses in metal carpenter, welder and pipefitter trades. The objective is to train by 2022 about fifty trainees a year, so as to "perpetuate the specific knowledge of the company", according to Chantiers de l'Atlantique.