Meyer Neptun Engineering wants to grow to 50 engineers

The start-up based at the Neptun shipyard in Warnemünde consisted of a team of eight at the beginning of the year. According to Manfred Müller-Fahrenholz, Managing Director of Meyer Neptun Engineering, Manfred Müller-Fahrenholz, Managing Director of Meyer Neptun Engineering, is trying to attract more engineers, i.e. “talents who want to shape the shipping of the future with us”. 10 positions are currently being advertised online.

The company’s fresh team started an induction phase at the beginning of January, which should include the exchange with existing engineering teams from Papenburg.

It offers optimistic news for the German shipbuilding industry after the insolvencies MV Werften and Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven.

Shipbuilding Veteran as MD

The Meyer Neptun leadership team consists of Müller-Fahrenholz together with Malte Poelmann, Chief Technology Officer, Meyer Group.

As one of Germany’s most respected shipbuilding veterans, Müller-Fahrenholz looks back on a 40-year history at Meyer.

On September 1, 2000 he was appointed managing director of Meyer’s own Neptun shipyard – a position he held for 16 years until his retirement. During his tenure, Müller-Fahrenholz made Neptun a market and innovation leader, particularly in the riverboat segment, and his name is associated with significant initiatives such as the longship design realized for Viking. Further milestones were the successful entry into the new construction market for domestic ferries and the establishment of an engine production facility that supplied such modules to Meyer Papenburg and Meyer Turku. In July 2018, the Ministry of Economics in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania appointed Müller-Fahrenholz as an economic ambassador.

green technology

Representatives of Meyer Neptun Engineering refer to it as a “competence center for special ships”, agreeing with the statement by IG Metall district head Daniel Friedrich that the German shipbuilding industry should concentrate on building ships “that nobody else can build”. ’ and his suggestion that ‘Germany should become a pioneer in zero-emission ships’.

As part of its focus on climate-neutral propulsion, Meyer Neptun Engineering will explore ways to make existing fleets, research vessels and offshore facilities more sustainable.

According to Poelmann, Rostock-Warnemünde was chosen as the event location because of the maritime know-how of the region with a strong network of medium-sized partner companies, the proximity to the Fraunhofer Society, the University of Rostock and the Neptun shipyard.

Employees to design the corporate structure

Poelmann went on to explain the start-up’s advantage of having Meyer Group in the background, which has already planned projects that will provide engineering services in the years to come. But Meyer Neptun Engineering is breaking new ground, he added, building on strong team involvement. “It’s a start-up where the employees also help shape the structure of the company,” he said.