A Decade of Australian Shipbuilding & Integration - The Dockmaster

Over the past decade, more than 5,000 people have dedicated millions of hours of effort to the Air Warfare Destroyer (AWD) program. As the most complex defence program ever undertaken in Australia, this program has developed the specialist shipbuilding and complex systems integration skills that will form the foundation for Australia’s future shipbuilding projects for decades to come.

With an Adelaide workforce of 1,700, the highly skilled men and women working at the Osborne Naval Shipyard are the backbone of Australia’s shipbuilding industry. The breadth of the industry spans across hundreds of skill sets – from project managers to systems engineers to welders and administrators – these are the faces of the workforce behind the Defence Force.

Over the coming months, people across every aspect of the AWD program will be featured in a series of profiles and videos to celebrate a decade of Australian shipbuilding and integration, starting this week with Paul Bates, the General Manager of Operations for Australian Naval Infrastructure (ANI).

Paul's full story, can be found here: http://www.ausawd.com/content.aspx?p=121