Fabrication Supervisor

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 experienced

Fabrication Supervisor to join their team. This is a hands-on supervisory role with responsibility for fabrication, welding, workshop operations and site activities, alongside supporting management with procurement 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 coordinate cutting, 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 identify missing materials, drawings, approvals, specifications or other information that could delay production.

• Help reduce avoidable re-work, omissions, incomplete loads and delivery failures through effective planning and communication.

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

• Ensure
  safe working practices and company Health & Safety procedures
  are consistently followed across workshop, yard and site activities.

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

• Undertake occasional
  site work and travel
  as 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 previous supervisory or management responsibility.

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

• Ability toread and interpret technical/fabrication drawings.

• Strong understanding of Health & Safety within a manufacturing/workshop environment and the ability to enforce safe systems of work.

• Strong leadership, 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 licence and 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…