Marine & Shipping

Matchtech's Marine Division has positioned itself as the country’s leading supplier of contract and permanent staff for UK and overseas based Marine and Shipping projects.

Our team of dedicated consultants have over 60 years of experience in the placement of personnel within the areas of shipbuilding, design, new-build, refit and conversion. Within Shipping, a focus is placed on technical and commercial disciplines, with a shore-based emphasis.

Our clients include commercial and defence shipyards, submarine designers, classification societies, consultant naval architects, yacht builders & designers, marine equipment designers & manufacturers, ship managers, operators & owners and oil majors.

Matchtech have become the number one recruiter in this sector by providing a professional, reliable and efficient service. As a result of this, Matchtech is a strategic partner to a number of key defence projects including the Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers, Type 45 Destroyer, Astute submarine and the next generation of submarine, the Successor programme.

Our involvement in these projects ensures we can demonstrate a proven capability across the full life cycle of a project covering concept design, estimating, detail design, engineering, build & commissioning through to life support, training, technical authoring and maintenance.

Matchtech are currently the Managed Service Provider to two of the marine sector's most well known companies, BAe Systems Surface Ships Portsmouth and Babcock Group. Matchtech are responsible for sourcing all vacancies for these clients, providing on site support for both the client and contractors at all major dockyards in the UK.