Workfloat

29/07/2023

SKIPPER NEEDED

THIS WEEK

FALMOUTH

GOOD PAY

DRIVING THIS

Must have tickets and commercial experience

07815 118756 WhatsApp me

23/03/2023

WE ARE RECRUITING.

Saturday Yard Person

Description:
Working in our yard near Penryn. The role involves arranging and managing stock, clearing, tidying, basic maintenance, loading and unloading vehicles before they go, and after they come back from jobs.

Experience:
Someone generally handy, happy to work outside in all weather. Experience operating plant and engineering. Also, familiar with working on diesel engines and 12v electrics. Happy to graft and work hard. Comfortable working on your own.

Hours: Saturdays for 6 hours.

Start: Immediate.

Benefits: Pension & performance-based bonus.

Pay: £12 per hour

Email a cover letter and CV to: [email protected]

31/01/2023

RECRUITING

ScaffFloat - Pontoon Builder - £45k

ScaffFloat has been growing at a rapid rate over the last year. We’ve been travelling all over the country, Glasgow to Padstow, South Wales to Essex as well as a few international projects.
We’re looking for someone to help our business grow and help build and operate our pontoons in even more locations.

ScaffFloat primarily provides safe floating access for contractors, builders, surveyors, scaffolders, engineers and anyone else that needs to work on the water. Because we can build our pontoons any shape, any size, in any specification we have had increasing demand for our specialist equipment.

Job Role
Description: Mobbing and de-mobbing pontoons across the UK. The pontoons are made of scaffolding and our bespoke bolt-ons like winches, spuds, outboards, cranes etc. We commission and hand over to the clients, or operate them ourselves. This can be quite a physical job as much of the equipment is standard scaffolding.

Experience: Someone with commercial marine experience would be perfect, ideally marine civils. Must be comfortable driving and towing trailers. Happy with manual work in all weathers. No scaffold experience is necessary.

Qualifications: RYA tickets are very valuable, ideally commercially endorsed. Other qualifications like CSCS etc are also beneficial.

Working Away: At least 50% of the time

Hours: Ideally full-time.

Start: Immediate

Benefits: Pension & performance-based bonus. Holidays

Pay: Starting at £25k pa + £50 a day work away bonus. Rising to £30k and £100 a day work away bonus when you start running your own jobs (takes on average 1-4 months). Once you are running your own jobs, and with bonuses you can expect to earn around £40-50k.

We are a small team working from Penryn, Cornwall, but looking to grow more and more.

If you would like to come work with us, building pontoons and working on rivers, canals, lakes and estuaries then let us know.

Email a cover letter and CV to: [email protected]

24/06/2022

RUNNERS UP

Beyond delighted to be the runner up in the main award at the European Commercial Marine Awards - The Spirit of Innovation.

Last Seawork we won the main award for WorkFloat. This year we came 2nd place with ScaffFloat to Artemis Technologies who have just built the worlds first zero emissions electric foiling workboat which is very, very well deserved - well done team

Last time we came to the show we just had an idea. This time we have real business, two products and some great clients. And most important of all is my team, they are the ones making it all happen so they need to take credit for this award and industry reccognition.

Pip pip, now back home to gods country.

Toby

11/06/2022

Going to the chapel……..

11/06/2022

WANTED - YARD PERSON

Rural yard nr Pernyn.

General duties inc cleaning and loading vehicles, maintinace, sorting gear, stock checks, strimming & weeding etc

Part time, to include saturdays and weekdays. Total 20hrs pw to start.

Hours can be flexible to suit.

Happy driving forklift/telehandler.

Work is phisical.

£12ph

Email [email protected]

08/04/2022

WE ARE RECRUITING

We are now recruiting for someone to come and build ScaffFloat pontoons and help us deliver some of the really exciting projects we have in the pipeline.

Salary: £25k - £30k plus pension
Working Away: We pay a significant additional day rate when working away
Bonus: We have a bonus system which is calculated on a job by job basis
Total: £35-40kplus
Details: Will be given during the application process

Immediate start. Ideally after a paid trial.

Job: Pontoon Builder

We all have a marine background and have taught ourselves to build ScaffFloat pontoons with no scaffold experience.

We are looking for someone with a strong marine background including qualifications. Comfortable driving all sorts of boats and generally working in and around the water.

Applications will be scored against the following:

Attitude & Culture: We are a very customer focused business. We always try and help find solutions and problem solving is a big part of what we do. This is a key part of our brand and so we weight the scoring for this very highly.

Safety: Keeping ourselves and our customers safe is a cornerstone of our service. Our customers trust us to take care of works afloat and whilst we work hard on the structure around safety (Risk Assessment, Method Statements, Policies, Training etc) the most important factor in safety is attitude. Accidents are generally predictable, they happen when things are rushed, not planned properly or people are tired. Having the right 'real world' attitude to safety is critical. Our mantra is Float Safe Home

Happy to graft: Building a standard ScaffFloat involves handballing 4-6t of scaffold tube, boards, clips and truss. It is often done in the wet and cold and against a deadline.

Tools: Must be happy on the tools.

Driving: This is a significant part of the job, so you must be comfortable towing large trailer. Our standard set up is a 3.5t flatbed Iveco with a 16ft trailer. We are also looking to expand our fleet to include an 18t (ish) wagon, with a crane, towing a big trailer full of floats - so applicants with appropriate licenses and understanding of driver hours and tachos will help with the scoring.

Marine: Experiance and qualifications driving boats, particularly commercial craft, small tugs etc.

Marine Civils / Contracting: This is an increasing part of what we do, experience with spuds, lifting equipment, plant, piling etc

Engineering & Electrics: Maintain and service outboards, winches, simple 12v wiring systems etc

Other: We will allow scoring number for additional miscellaneous skills that could add value to our offering.

This is a great opportunity to join a small team developing a really exciting product.

The job is 1% office based, the rest of the time you will be outside in the yard loading or doing maintenance, but most of the time out on the road mobbing or demobbing pontoons.

If you are interested please send your CV along with a cover email (no longer than 200 words) to [email protected] with a bullet list summary of your experience and qualifications and a paragraph about 1) why you want this job and 2) what value you can bring.

We look forward to hearing from you,

Toby and the ScaffFloat Team

06/04/2022

BOAT CREW WANTED

We are providing a small workboat for works on the Neath Swing Bridge over the next year. We are looking for a local person to act as crew aboard the small workboat and assist the skipper where needed.

It involves working outside in all weathers. Full PPE provided.

Perhaps it would suit an experienced/semi retired person looking for a steady, low pressure job for a year on the water. Or an enthusiastic younger person, with a good work attitude that will come out at the end as a fully qualified and experienced RYA skipper (that we will pay for, for the right candidate).

You MUST be:

Reliable - turn up on time
Have a good work attitude
Be happy outside, in the sun as well as the cold rain
Be up for a laugh on site

Full training given. Immediate start. £10ph, 8hr working day + breaks.

For full details and to apply send a short cover email and CV to [email protected]

04/04/2022

FOOT ON THE GAS

News story about the WorkFloat we just commissioned for the Royal Bahrain Defence Force.

AND

Some announcements about our plans for the next evolution of WorkFloat .

Cheers, happy Wednesday, Toby ;-)



Thank you Workboat365.com

The military force for the Kingdom of Bahrain has purchased an innovative self-propelled WorkFloat to support its growing naval fleet. Once afloat their 12m x 6m WorkFloat will provide a useful work platform for a range of support tasks in their Naval Port. It’s equipment includes a 10tm crane tha...

15/03/2022

ScaffFloat

19/10/2021

We are a young and fast-growing company that sells and hires floaty things.

We are looking for someone to come and tell people about what we do and how we can help them and help them.

We have two innovative products, 1) WorkFloat is a modular workboat that fits in a container and 2) Is a pontoon system made from scaffolding. We are 100% B2B and commercial, and our main markets are currently access, construction, diving, marine and military with plans to move into other markets including events & festivals, disaster relief, emergency services, geo technical and a number of other exciting markets - in the UK and increasingly overseas.

We want an EXPERIENCED marketeer who is used to B2B marketing and ideally has experience in these sorts of industries.

Role:

New Website: Work with the MD to develop and design two new websites with an outside web developer or agency. Likely be a popular CMS like Wordpress so experience managing settings, plugins, uploading content etc is key. You will help write all the new site content, develop the site map, collate all pictures and video, compile an SEO plan and when ready populate the new site. Once live you will regularly upload content (at least weekly) including news and case studies from jobs we have done.
Social Media, Email and Other Channels: Push content out across multiple platforms, so you must be comfortable with Linkedin which is our most productive platform, as well as Facebook, Twitter and other channels. Research relevant hashtags, build an audience, grow engagement and target and connect with potential customers.
CRM & Sales: Set up a new CRM, continually add new leads, qualify by making contact and then keep the database up to date. Focus on vertical markets with bespoke offerings for each. Add all quotes sent out and follow up in line with our sales process. CRM system yet to be chosen but must integrate well with Linkedin as well as gmail. You must be comfortable getting on the phone and reaching out to cold leads
Campaigns: Set up and run campaigns, normally to vertical markets with a customised offer. Use of multiple channels, not just digital but including print and mail to get in front of our target market.
Reporting: Track wherever possible channels, campaigns and advertising spend to gauge the best ROI. Monthly sales report including your set of KPIs which include pipeline values, progression, conversion rates, audience growth etc
Trade Shows: Help plan, manage and attend trade shows. Mostly UK based but some overseas.
Advertising: We don't do much advertising, what we do is normally very targeted through PPC, Linkedin, Boosted posts etc. You will help manage and report on this spend.
Video Editing and Design: A bonus
General Admin: We are a small company, so whilst the focus will be sales and marketing, you will be asked to help out with general admin duties as well.

Content Marketing is at the heart of how we tell our story, and we hardly spend any money on outbound marketing, it's mostly inbound.

We are based in Penryn, but are happy with some flexible and home working.

This is a great opportunity to join a fun a fast-growing Cornish company with some products that solve real problems.

Applications in a video (ONLY) on WhatsApp to 07815 11 87 56 to Toby MD - Must be under 16MB (about 3 mins). Cover your story, experience and what skills you have that will help with the above. Also tell us why you want this job. Or email a CV to [email protected]

Salary: £30k + bonus based on % of job profit (expect £5k + pa)

40 Hours, 20 days holiday + bank holidays