Welding Fabricator Apprentice

About the role

Apprentice Welder & Fabricator 🛠️

Ready to kickstart your career and become a master of metal? We're looking for motivated individuals to join our team as Apprentice Welders & Fabricators. This is your chance to learn on the job, contribute to real projects, and make a tangible impact. 🚀

What You'll Be Doing:

• Innovation & Improvement: Dive into Kaizen events and continuous improvement projects. Your ideas matter! You'll be identifying ways to cut down on waste, downtime, manual handling, scrap, rework, changeover times, unnecessary movement, and production bottlenecks. 💡
• Problem Solving: Actively respond to improvement requests from our production teams. Develop hands-on fabrication solutions to make our manufacturing processes even better.
• Clean & Safe Workspaces: Support 5S initiatives in fabrication and maintenance areas, ensuring our work zones are organised, clean, and super safe. 🧼
• Welding & Fabrication Mastery:
• Get hands-on with MIG/MAG, TIG, and other welding processes.
• Fabricate components and structures using drawings, sketches, and measurements.
• Cut, drill, grind, bend, and prepare materials with precision.
• Manufacture essential items like guards, brackets, frames, platforms, and supports.
• Perform repair welding on production equipment, fixtures, and stillages.
• Learn to select the right materials, welding processes, and consumables for every task.
• Production Support:
• Respond swiftly to urgent fabrication and repair needs from Production.
• Minimize production downtime by completing repairs efficiently and safely.
• Assist the maintenance team with their fabrication and welding needs.
• Manufacture temporary or permanent solutions as needed and authorised.
• Help with modifications to jigs, fixtures, tooling, and production equipment.
• Collaborate closely with Production Engineering on exciting improvement projects.

What You'll Bring:

• A strong willingness to learn and a proactive attitude.
• An interest in fabrication, welding, and manufacturing.
• The ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• A commitment to safety and quality.

What We Offer:

• Comprehensive on-the-job training and mentorship.
• The opportunity to earn while you learn.
• A supportive and dynamic work environment.
• The chance to build a rewarding career in a vital industry.

If you're eager to get hands-on, solve problems, and grow your skills in welding and fabrication, apply today! Let's build something amazing together. 💪🌟

Key responsibilities

• Actively participate in continuous improvement activities and identify reduction opportunities
• Develop practical fabrication solutions to improve manufacturing processes and equipment
• Carry out various welding and fabrication processes, including MIG/MAG and TIG
• Support 5S activities and maintain an organised, clean and safe work environment
• Respond to urgent fabrication and repair requirements to minimise production downtime

Entry requirements

GCSE in: (English (grade 4 or C and above), Maths (grade 4 or C and above))