Workshop Foreman - Golborne, United Kingdom - United Living Group
Description
Company Description
United Living Infrastructure Services is made up of our three subsidiaries, United Living Energy Limited, United Living Water Limited and Great British Communications.
There's never been a better time to join Great British Communications; we are a tenacious, fast-paced business with a huge contract pipeline and ambitious growth plans.
This role involves running a rapidly expanding workshop that welds and fabricates various pipework and bespoke fabrications to meet our in-house and customers' needs.
As a skilled workshop foreman, you will be a time-served welder/fabricator, having significant experience in heavy general welding and fabrication and capable of using standard workshop machinery and equipment.
Your team will initially consist of five welding apprentices daily within the workshop, which will grow year on year, and skilled welders when they return to the yard from site activities.
- Practical training of apprentices in multiple welding processes and fabrication techniques
- Ability to MIG/MAG/TIG/FCAW weld is essential, as well as an ability to use a range of workshop equipment.
- Able to train apprentices in MIG/MAG/TIG/FCAW and support their development as welders
- Firsthand knowledge of welding automation would be desirable
- Manage a variety of fabrication jobs from start to finish, working to a high standard both individually and as the leader of a team
- Ability to interpret engineering drawings, plans and instructions.
- A strong leader who communicates professionally with other team members, customers, suppliers, contractors, etc.
- Ability to work accurately under pressure (to meet deadlines etc.), demonstrating a logical and methodical approach to workloads.
- Ordering materials and monitoring stock levels of materials, maintaining accurate stock records and updating the stock control system when necessary.
- Take responsibility for the inspection and maintenance of specific equipment.
- Overseeing health & safety within the workshop and maintaining a safe working environment
- Liaising with the quality and engineering departments to ensure all relevant welding or quality issues are addressed
Qualifications
- Minimum of five years' work experience as a fabrication foreman/manager or an individual with 10+ years of welding & fabrication experience looking for their next step up
- Must be computer literate and proficient using Microsoft office
- Responsible, conscientious, punctual, highly organised, selfmotivated and able to work under pressure, both on own initiative and as part of a busy team.
- Full UK Driving Licence.
Additional Information
- Takes responsibility for decisionmaking, with autonomy and within the guidelines of the work instruction, for their workplace, and for their productivity. Ability to work well with others
- Consistently and reliably deliver expectations in safety, production, quality, ethics and selfdevelopment
- Follows the specified procedures and controls and be personally responsible and accountable for their production work and personal development
- Committed to Equality and Diversity
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