SEPI Sociedad Estatal de Participaciones Industriales

SEPI’s Executive Committee has given its authorization, after the proposal submitted by NAVANTIA’s Chairman, Mr. Esteban García Vilasánchez, to the new management structure of the company. NAVANTIA’s new industrial and organizational corporate model seeks to promote a more business-focused approach, centered on the meeting the goals.

NAVANTIA’s Chairman, who took over his position last April, thinks that the new structure aims a more agile decision-taking process, so that meeting the terms and commitments becomes the mail goal at any level within the company.

This organizational model provides an answer to the short and medium-term strategical priorities for adequately facing NAVANTIA’s feasibility and sustainability challenges. The goal is evolving towards a management model based on the different business units which reinforces the priority nature of the programs’ profitability and getting closer the corporate functions to these business units.

It sets up an Operational and Business Management Department which will include: the shipyards of the Cartagena Dock, of the Ría de Ferrol, and of the Bay of Cádiz; the Systems and Repairs businesses, as well as NAVANTIA Australia.

A new Engineering and Product and Processes Development Department is also established. Its goal is a significant future improvement of the products’ added value and of the value chain. The Commercial and Business Development Department expands its functions with the development of the Life Cycle Support and of the offshore wind business. The Technological Center will focus its activity on Innovation, digitalization and on the Shipyard 4.0.

A Corporate Department is set up, which includes the following functions: Information Technologies, Communications, Institutional Relationships, Industrial Security, and General Services.

The new Strategical Department includes the responsibilities on Strategical Planning, Investments, the Research and Studies department, and the Corporate Control and Risks functions. The Human Resources, Administration and Finance, the Secretary of the Board and the Internal Audit Office departments keep their main functions.