Argentine Shipyards: Tandanor looks for naval engineers

Argentine shipyard Tandanor looks for naval engineers and other skilled professionals to meet its delivery commitments





06/23/2010 (Buenos Aires)  - Tandanor, the recent Argentine shipyard that back under state control, will join to its staff of marine engineers and other skilled professionals to enable it to meet its commitment to modernization and repair of the icebreaker Almirante Irizar.


Talleres Navales Dársena Norte (Tandanor) has always been a landmark of the shipbuilding industry in Argentina and today, by the rapid growth of industry in the last two years, requires professionals to meet their business expectations.


According to what publishes the newspaper La Nacion, modernization and repair of the icebreaker Almirante Irizar, with a budget of $ 90 million, is one of the flagship projects of the shipyard and the company needs qualified staff to address the program successfully.


This ship, to transport passengers and research personnel, will, among other changes, the possibility of carrying 313 people, and its area of research will go from 40 to 400 square meters, 1,000 meters to reach if you enable the cellars for this purpose .


"For its size, will be the ranking in terms of repair Tandanor" said the president of the company, Mario Nallib Fadel, who said that "it has formed a task force and naval architects seek to lead this work. We want to play The deadline for 2011. "


Nallib emphasized that "it aims to have sufficient staff numbers to enable us to meet the normal activity of the shipyard and peak workloads that are articulated with the private sector through tenders, a system that ensures sustainability over time." In this regard, he noted that "today we lack engineers in the level of supervision due to new construction and need professionals at the managerial level.


We are looking for a plant manager for the complex, can be a marine engineer, civil or mechanical maintenance experience in managing an industrial plant. And an operations manager, preferably with experience in shipbuilding. The salary offer is competitive. "Fedel stressed that" since 2009 offer, along with the salary of top-level managers, a bonus to income, that is, based on objectives met. If the performance of the company improves its wage also "


In addition, Tandanor offers training, job growth, constant action makes job security issues and currently is studying the construction of a social fund for house purchase.


Tandanor President, Mario Nallib Fadel, explained the details of the shipyard, which noted that "its strategic importance is that Buenos Aires is a port terminal in the Southern Cone and its dimensions allow large-scale vessels with more than 6,000 tons and 140 meters in length, deal with any break. It is one of the few in South America with these characteristics and repair each year an average of 120 ships. "


"The key to competitiveness is the Syncrolift, a platform that raises the vessel, out of the water and dry places. Lift up to 15,000 tonnes," said the president of Tandanor, who stressed that "the primary customer is the Argentine government by the Navy, and then serve vessels from neighboring countries, Europe and Asia to take advantage of competitive pricing conditions and repair their vessels in Argentina. "


In the 90s, Tandanor, which had two floors, was privatized with irregularities that today are considered by the Justice. In 1999, his private shareholder, Indarsa, filed for bankruptcy and the company was in the hands of the Justice and under the direction and management of their workers, who kept the operations.


According to Fadel, "the dismantling of 90 naval and today was an important naval engineers are active seniors" so that "has created a great void of professionals because the activity became nil."


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