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The French Navy said its recruitment needs will rise 20% in 2026 compared with 2025 incorporations, including the new national service due to start in September 2026. It said 600 contracts are open this year for that scheme, while Naval Group said it recruited 4,500 people over the past three years.
Naval Group’s Cherbourg site and UIMM Grand Ouest Normandie launched a training route in June 2026 for formage-dressage, a metalworking trade used on submarine structures. Ten candidates will take three months of initial training before a 24-month alternance at the yard.
Naval Group cut steel for the first SNLE 3G submarine at Cherbourg on 20 March 2024, starting construction of the class that will replace France’s Le Triomphant boats. The first boat, L’Invincible, is due to be launched in 2036 and delivered at the end of 2037.
Costas Kadis, the European commissioner for fisheries and oceans, and Catherine Chabaud, France’s minister delegate for the sea and fisheries, visited CMN’s Cherbourg site on 29 June. The yard showed them a fishing-vessel project and the FloWatt tidal power programme, which includes six HydroQuest turbines to be built in Cherbourg.
CMN Group will recruit for 26 apprenticeship openings at the Objectif Alternance forum on 18 March at La Cité de la Mer in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin. The roles span production, technical, logistics, QSE and communications functions, with several posts carrying multiple vacancies.