Business Administration Apprenticeship

Cattedown Wharves is owned and operated by James Fisher and Sons plc, and is a vital commercial port located on the Cattewater in Plymouth, UK. Specialising in bulk liquids, petroleum, and dry bulk cargoes, it operates a 220-meter jetty dredged to 7.6 meters LWOST and handles 1.5 million tonnes of freight annually.

• Communication skills
• IT skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Customer care skills
• Problem solving skills
• Administrative skills
• Number skills
• Analytical skills
• Logical
• Team working
• Initiative
• Willing to learn

• GCSE · English · 4/C · Essential
• GCSE · Maths · 4/C · Essential

<ul> <li>25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays.</li> <li>Competitive benefits tailored to the division.</li> <li>Opportunities for career growth and visibility across the organisation.</li> <li>A supportive, inclusive culture that values your ideas and contributions.</li> <li>Work that truly makes a difference in safety, innovation, and global capability.</li> </ul>

Cattedown Wharves is a commercial port handling bulk dry cargoes (animal feed, aggregates and clay) and fuels.<br>We are part of James Fisher PLC, but feel like a small family-owned business due to having only 13 members of staff employed on the site.<br>We have an office team of 4 people (inc apprentice), a weighbridge operator, 3 security guards and the remaining team members are all Port Operatives, working on the quay loading/unloading ships and lorries, handling dry cargoes and mooring vessels.

CITY COLLEGE PLYMOUTH · Business and administration · Level 3