Building a modern shipbuilding workforce

We’re training 20 indigenous students for jobs at the Halifax Shipyard in 2018. Our goal is for industries in Canada to see this as a way to train and employ all under-represented workers.

The Halifax Shipyard in 2010. The indigenous Pathways to Shipbuilding cohort follows a pilot involving a group of women.Photo courtesy of the government of Nova Scotia

Opinion

BY ELYSE ALLAN, KEVIN MCCOY

June 8, 2016

As we modernize shipbuilding in Canada, we must also strive to modernize our workforce. The very same culture of innovation that drives us in the shipbuilding industry to pursue technological advancements in vessel construction, is driving us to find new ways to open doors for those underrepresented...

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