Plater

Dutton Recruitment; Chesterfield; On-site; GBP 20,389 - 29,039; Full time

Job summary

Dutton Recruitment (Sheffield Engineering) is recruiting a Plater for a permanent role at our client site in Chesterfield. Immediate start available, subject to interview.

Rate of pay is £17.94 per hour for basic hours, with a four-day working week from Monday to Thursday, 6:00am – 4:30pm. Responsibilities include fabricating and welding bespoke heavy steel components, reading drawings, and maintaining quality standards in a heavy engineering environment.

Qualifications

• Confident plater or fabricator.
• Ideally apprentice trained or holding relevant qualifications.
• Confident MIG welder.
• Experience operating fabrication machinery.
• Must have worked within a heavy steel industry.
• Confident reading engineering drawings.
• NVQ Level 3 or City & Guilds in Fabrication and Welding or Plating would be expected.

Responsibilities

• Fabrication and development on bespoke steel fabrications in a heavy engineering environment (bridges, staircases, gantries – Road & Rail).
• Use varying workshop tools, plant and machinery.
• Work from engineering drawings and specifications.
• Build parts/assemblies to engineering drawings at an expert level.
• Weld to a high quality standard.
• Measure and mark out plate and sections for cutting, shaping and drilling.
• Adhere to all health and safety policies and procedures.

Skills

Plater / Fabricator

MIG welding

Fabrication machinery

Education

NVQ Level 3 or City & Guilds in Fabrication and Welding

Job description

Plater – Permanent Position

Dutton Recruitment (Sheffield Engineering) is recruiting for a Plater position based at our client site in Chesterfield.

Immediate start available (subject to interview process).

Rate of pay is £17.94 per hour for basic hours.

Working hours: Monday to Thursday 6:00am – 4:30pm (four‑day working week).

Duties and Responsibilities

• Fabrication and development on bespoke steel fabrications in a heavy engineering environment (bridges, staircases, gantries – Road & Rail).
• Use varying workshop tools, plant and machinery.
• Work from engineering drawings and specifications.
• Build parts/assemblies to engineering drawings at an expert level.
• Weld to a high quality standard.
• Measure and mark out plate and sections for cutting, shaping and drilling.
• Adhere to all health and safety policies and procedures.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Needed

• Confident plater or fabricator.
• Ideally apprentice trained or holding relevant qualifications.
• Confident MIG welder.
• Experience operating fabrication machinery.
• Must have worked within a heavy steel industry.
• Confident working from engineering drawings from scratch.
• NVQ Level 3 or City and Guilds in Fabrication and Welding or Plating would be expected.