Jobs for the future
Skills, learning and development
At Peel Ports, we recognise we have a responsibility to nurture our teams, by developing people and showcasing the varied and exciting roles available. We also want to showcase these career opportunities to young people to inspire them and attract the talent the business needs to strengthen the future workforce.
We have a range of initiatives focused on making a positive impact on current and future employees:
- Career progression planning and a leadership programme to develop people’s skills and provide opportunities to grow within the business
- Mentoring and apprenticeship programme with local schools, colleges and universities
- Work placement opportunities
- We showcase our exciting industry and career prospects at careers fairs, by delivering presentations to students and opening our ports for informative tours
Opportunities
Examples of just some the wide range of skilled career opportunities a port can provide:
Quality careers in an industry with future
With a bright future ahead, we provide thousands of quality job opportunities directly, or through many of our partners across the UK supply chain, yet people are often surprised at the vast range of careers available in our ports and across our industry.
The Maritime sector average pay is over 30% higher than the national average and, there is literally something for everyone where no day is ever the same, be it for our operations teams, finance or designers and planners. Yet many still regard our industry as having only manual or operational roles, but the reality is very different. In our modern ports we have a high level of automation and a need for constant innovation to improve and modernise our services.
This provides us with an excellent opportunity to showcase the work we do to young people and help them explore through apprenticeships and on-the-job academic learning.
Circa 2000 Peel Ports Group people are employed across a wide remit of skilled roles.
The average pay in the maritime sector is £39,000 which is 36% higher than the national average of £29k
The UK maritime workforce is 51% more productive compared to the average UK worker.
Sources: Maritime UK / CEBR, Maritime UK, British Ports Association
Our leadership programme; people grow with us
Our leadership programme is designed to get employees further in their career with Peel Ports. We recognise the importance of investing in people and, as part of this, the programme supports employees with their continued growth and development.
We provide opportunities to enhance and develop successful careers with us and enable rapid progression into management. Our programme is designed to develop people’s skills including:
- Managing efficiencies and effectiveness
- Leading innovation, change and implementation
- Decision making and solving challenges
- Budgetary planning and control
The story of one city
The Port of Liverpool, like many of our port locations, is a story of success over three centuries that the city can be proud of. Today it remains one of the most important trading hubs in the UK.
The investments the business has made in technology, facilities and people have meant the port has increased in capacity, attracting more business opportunities and enabling the growth of import and export of goods.
Despite the pandemic, our operations at the Port of Liverpool have created an extra 200 jobs, taking the number of people employed to 1,200. Over 80% of these jobs are held by people who live near the port.
Jobs also create opportunities for skills and personal development. We have partnerships with educational institutions, such as Hugh Baird College in Sefton and the University of Liverpool Management School. These help us to nurture talent and be more creative in finding solutions to the challenges we all face.
Apprenticeship & work placement schemes
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Everyone Welcome
Equality, diversity & inclusion
There’s no denying there is a big challenge in our industry around equality, diversity and inclusion. We’re committed to tackling this head-on, to ensure we’re moving towards a future where everyone from our communities is represented. We have a dedicated team developing our equality, diversity and inclusion strategy which centres around 4 key areas – gender, ethnicity, ability and identity.
Our World
Net zero & the environment
We care about the environment and we are working to minimise the impact of our operations; from committing to becoming carbon neutral by 2040, to developing innovation strategies designed to find sustainable solutions, through to our use of HVO fuels and the enabling the development of renewable energy across all sites, all our past and future investments take into account our wider sustainable agenda.
Social & Good Causes
Supporting local projects
The charities we support are nominated by employees at each of our port locations and we encourage every team to be as engaged as possible in making a difference in their community. We have donated laptops, raised festive funds, organised litter picks and support a number of causes which benefit local communities and projects.
A Level Playing Field Whitepaper
The role of ports in achieving better outcomes for the UK’s levelling up agenda