Welder Fabricator

Babcock International; Byard's Leap; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm in the UK is seeking a Welder Fabricator to join their aviation engineering operations. You'll design and manufacture critical components, contributing to national security. The role requires Level 3 qualifications in Metal Workshop Engineering and MIG/TIG Welding. Enjoy excellent benefits, including a generous holiday allowance and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

'Be Kind Day' for volunteering

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Level 3 Qualification in a Metal Workshop Engineering Discipline required.
• Level 3 Qualification in MIG/TIG Welding (Mild Steel, Stainless Steel & Aluminium) required.

Responsibilities

• Operate engraving machine, training provided.
• Adhere to local tool control system.
• Ensure all tasks are completed safely and efficiently.
• Deputise for metal workshop inventory.
• Maintain workshop machinery as directed by Team Leader.

Skills

MIG/TIG Welding

Metal Workshop Engineering

Education

Level 3 Qualification in a Metal Workshop Engineering Discipline

Level 3 Qualification in MIG/TIG Welding

Job description

As a Welder Fabricator, you'll be at the heart of our aviation engineering operations, helping to design and manufacture critical components that support our defence and aerospace missions. This is a hands-on role where your craftsmanship and precision will directly contribute to national security and operational readiness. It's a chance to grow your skills, work with cutting-edge equipment, and be part of a team that values quality, safety, and innovation.

Responsibilities

• Operating the engraving machine (training provided if needed)
• Adhering to the local tool control system
• Ensuring all tasks are completed safely and efficiently
• Deputising for the metal workshop inventory
• Maintaining workshop machinery as directed by the Team Leader
• This role is full time, working 39 hours per week on-site at Cranwell.

Qualifications

• Level 3 Qualification in a Metal Workshop Engineering Discipline
• Level 3 Qualification in MIG/TIG Welding (Mild Steel, Stainless Steel & Aluminium)

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Welder Fabricator at our Cranwell site, near Sleaford, Lincolnshire.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock International. For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.