Welder Fabricator

Description

Job description:

Gen-fab Limited are looking for a Welder Fabricator Apprentice to complete a level 3 metal fabricator apprenticeship to join their team. This is an excellent opportunity to join this long-established engineering business. The candidate will join the team in a multi-disciplined role to learn, practice and develop a diverse range of engineering skill sets involved with metal working, fabrication and welding. Other disciplines will include laser cutting, drilling and machining.

Additional training for fabrication and welding practices will be offered during the apprenticeship programme.

Role & responsibilities:

Responsible to the Director, the duties and metal working processes range from:

• Marking out and measurement
• Cutting products to size
• Drilling
• Finishing
• Lathe operation
• Welding practices:
  • Gas
  • Mig & Tig
  • Manual Metal Arc

Carry out housekeeping duties to include:

• Updating workshop files
• Maintain cleanliness of work areas
• Assist with the responsibility to achieve a safe working environment
• Conform to health and safety regulations
• Promote own learning and development

Expert mentoring will be given throughout

Skills required:

• Attention to detail
• Working with others
• Awareness of personal responsibility for health and safety as well as that of others
• Punctuality, attendance, time management

Personal qualities the candidate must have:

• Willingness to learn and follow instruction
• Effective communication and listening
• Willingness to give and receive constructive feedback

Employer description:

Gen-Fab Limited was established in 1997 by expert metalworkers Darrell Charlesworth and John Shaw to provide metal fabrication and welding solutions. Our vision was to provide our customers with the highest quality workmanship and grow Gen-Fab into a market leader.

18 years on, and we have achieved our original vision. Gen-Fab is one of the best-regarded laser cutting and fabrication specialists in the UK and the company has grown considerably since its inception, now employing a crack team of expert metalworkers who work on jobs that range from 1 to 1 million products. Combined, our team has 30 years of experience in the metalwork industry, and there’s very little that we can’t achieve for our customers.

Things to consider:

During the first year you will be required to attend the University of Sheffield AMRC Training Centre in Sheffield, full time for an initial block of study.  You will return to your workplace one Friday per month.  After the initial block training you will attend the AMRC Training Centre for one day a week to undertake the knowledge study. The remaining four days will be spent in company learning on the job.

Please note the AMRC Training Centre reserves the right to close applications ahead of the published closing date.

Qualification Requirements:

Advanced Apprenticeships entry requirements

You will need both of the following:

• GCSE English language C or 4 or above
• GCSE Maths C or 4 or above.

Applicants are also required to successfully complete a series of assessments at the University of Sheffield’s AMRC Training Centre, as well as an employer recruitment and selection process to secure a place on an apprenticeship programme.