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Training

Photo: Stream Marine Training

Profles in Training

Martyn Thomas,

Chief of Staff, Stream Marine Training Ltd. (SMT) artyn Thomas is the Chief of Staff at Stream original apprenticeship as a Marine Electrical Engineer in the

Marine Training Ltd (SMT Ltd.) following shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness before moving to A&P Ap- many years working for both global train- pledore in Southampton. He was lured ashore for an electrical ing providers and cruise companies. SMT position, but “I was drawn back to the maritime industry where,

M is a maritime skills and technology busi- until the late nineties, I was exposed to various maritime ves- ness providing fre-fghting, sea survival, sels from new builds to refurbishments.” survival craft and HSE training to the glob- His career hit a turning point while working for Hotpoint as a al maritime, oil and gas, renewables and construction industries. service engineer, receiving his frst Management & Leadership

Thomas works out of SMT’s head offce in Glasgow where training from GE as part of their Technical Sales Leadership

SMT trains the majority of its theoretical based courses, includ- Program. “This is where I frst gained an appetite for teaching ing Alternative Fuels, HELM, Security Awareness, and Secu- and training,” said Thomas.

rity Duties, as well as its pool-based training courses like Per- This appetite for teaching and training eventually led him to sonal Survival Techniques and custom-developed Water Safety academia where he continued to work and completed his teach- courses. SMT also operates a fre-fghting training facility at ing degree, and as the Deputy Head of Faculty at Further Educa-

Glasgow Airport where it trains all the STCW Fire Fighting tion College he would develop a number of qualifcations, one courses, Enclosed Space Training, Rescue at Height and other of which was a course designed to help “would be” electrical offshore fre courses. In early 2020 SMT opened its new £500k engineers to become Electro Technical Offcers for Carnival UK.

boat training facility in Greenock moving from its previous site “I left the college and joined Carnival UK where I became which was opened in 2015. This has allowed it to increase its their Cadet & Technical Training Manager,” said Thomas. “As boat training capacity for all STCW Boat courses with future part of this role I developed and implemented the frst edition expansion into other offshore training markets. of the competency framework for Deck, Engine & ETO Of- fcers (3rd to 1st) within Carnival UK to enable them to dem-

Meet Martyn Thomas onstrate their professional and technical competence beyond

Thomas began with a career in maritime, starting with his the achievement of CoC’s. While at Carnival I was also an ac- 18 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • May 2020