Fabrication Supervisor

RECRUITMENT HELPLINE; Bradford; On-site; GBP 39,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Good hourly rate

Overtime available

Holiday entitlement plus bank holidays

Company Pension Scheme

Free company car park

Job summary

RECRUITMENT HELPLINE is seeking an experienced Fabrication Supervisor in Bradford to oversee workshops, welding and site activities. This hands-on leadership role includes coordinating labour, ensuring on-time production, and supporting procurement and admin tasks.

The ideal candidate will have proven fabrication/welding experience, strong safety focus and the ability to plan workflows while communicating effectively with teams and clients.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a fabrication/welding workshop or manufacturing environment.
• Previous supervisory or management responsibility.
• Strong knowledge of welding processes, procedures and quality standards.
• Ability to read and interpret technical/fabrication drawings.
• Health & Safety awareness and ability to enforce safe systems of work.
• Leadership, organisational and time-management skills to meet deadlines.
• Excellent verbal and written communication with team, management and clients.
• Ability to plan and coordinate labour, materials and production priorities.
• Good basic IT skills and ability to assist with procurement and general office tasks.
• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel for site work.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate day-to-day workshop operations to meet production schedules.
• Convert orders into production priorities and handovers.
• Monitor staff output and progress against programmes and delivery dates.
• Oversee cutting, drilling, fabrication, welding, painting, galvanising, yard operations.
• Provide technical guidance to ensure fabrication and welding work is of required quality.
• Identify missing materials or information that could delay production.
• Plan to reduce rework and avoid late deliveries through planning and communication.
• Coordinate with management, workshop staff, clients and suppliers.
• Ensure safe working practices are followed across workshop, yard and site activities.
• Assist with procurement, stock control and general materials management.
• Undertake occasional site work and travel.
• Support management with operational and administrative tasks.
• Contribute to the development of the workshop team and processes.

Job description

An excellent opportunity for an experienced Fabrication Supervisor to join a well-established company.

Job Type: Full-Time, Permanent.

Salary: £39,000 - £41,500 Per Annum, Depending on Experience.

Location: Bradford BD4.

Job Description:

The company are seeking an experiencedFabrication Supervisorto join their team. This is a hands-on supervisory role with responsibility forfabrication, welding, workshop operations and site activities, alongside supporting management withprocurement and general office tasks. The successful candidate will have proven experience in afabrication/welding or manufacturing environment, ideally with previous supervisory or management responsibility. You will be responsible for coordinating day-to-day workshop activities, allocating labour, monitoring progress and ensuring work is completed safely, efficiently, to the required quality standard and within agreed deadlines.

Key Duties:

• Lead and coordinate day-to-day workshop operations, ensuring labour is planned and work is allocated effectively to meet production schedules and delivery deadlines.

• Convert orders into clearjob handovers and production priorities, ensuring the workshop team understands the required scope, sequence and deadlines.

• Monitor staff output and job progress against programmes, allowed hours, delivery dates and customer requirements, taking appropriate action where progress is falling behind.

• Oversee and coordinatecutting, drilling, fabrication, welding, painting, galvanising, yard operations, loading and transport.

• Provide technical knowledge, guidance and intervention to ensure fabrication and welding work is completed to the required quality standards.

• Review jobs in advance and identifymissing materials, drawings, approvals, specifications or other informationthat could delay production.

• Help reduce avoidablere-work, omissions, incomplete loads and delivery failuresthrough effective planning and communication.

• Coordinate with management, workshop staff, clients and suppliers to support effective project delivery.

• Ensuresafe working practices and company Health & Safety proceduresare consistently followed across workshop, yard and site activities.

• Assist withmaterial and sundry procurement, stock control and general materials management, ensuring requirements are identified in good time.

• Undertake occasionalsite work and travelas required.

• Support management with general operational and administrative tasks where required.

• Contribute positively to the development of the workshop team, processes and wider business.

Candidate Requirements:

• Proven experience in afabrication/welding workshop or manufacturing environment, with previoussupervisory or management responsibility.

• Strong working knowledge ofwelding processes, procedures and quality standards.

• Ability toread and interpret technical/fabrication drawings.

• Strong understanding ofHealth & Safety within a manufacturing/workshop environmentand the ability to enforce safe systems of work.

• Strongleadership, organisational and time-management skills, with the ability to prioritise work and meet demanding deadlines.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the confidence to communicate effectively with workshop operatives, management, clients and wider personnel.

• Ability to plan and coordinate labour, materials and production priorities to ensure projects remain on schedule.

• Good basic IT skills and the ability to assist with procurement and general office/management tasks.

• FullUK driving licenceand willingness to travel for occasional site work as required.

• A strong work ethic, self-motivation, resilience, attention to detail and the ability to work effectively using your own initiative.

• A positive, enthusiastic and collaborative approach, with a commitment to supporting the continued development of the team and wider business.

What They Are Looking For:

The company are looking for someone who is bothtechnically competent and confident leading people. You should be comfortable being hands-on when required while also having the organisational ability to plan work, manage priorities, identify potential issues and keep projects moving. You will be a proactive and dependable team member who takes ownership of deadlines, maintains high standards of workmanship and safety, and communicates clearly at all levels.

Company Benefits:

• Good hourly rate of pay

• Overtime available/expected as required

• Holiday entitlement plus bank holidays

• Company Pension Scheme

• Free company car park

About The Company:

They are a metal fabricators based in West Yorkshire. Starting in 1992 producing gates and railings for domestic clients. Even to this day, their domestic work is important to them and they have a dedicated team who fabricate and install. The core business is architectural metal work for commercial clients. The company manufacture and install many products ranging from wrought iron work, machine guarding, security grills and doors, mezzanine flooring, fire escapes and a vast range of architectural balconies, canopies, balustrades and staircases.

The employer fully supports Equality in Employment. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit and business need.