Plater / Fabricator

About the job

Job Title: Plater/ Fabricator

Location: Bridgend

Salary: £17.09 per hour

Job Type: 39 hours per week, weekdays, with an early finish on Fridays

Vessco Engineering Ltd, founded in 2006, we are an ambitious and fast-growing manufacturer of pressure vessels, heat exchangers and fabricated equipment with a highly skilled workforce. Recently Vessco Engineering Ltd joined the LTi Metaltech Group, a €130m European Engineering Group and today our clients are based around the world and come from a range of sectors, including Oil & Gas, Nuclear Power, Water Treatment & Heavy Industry

The Role:

• Accurately cutting, grinding, and laying out a wide variety of materials including sheet metal, plate, tube, pipe, channel, and angle.
• Performing basic quality MIG and MMA tack welds on mild steel, stainless steel, and aluminium
• Performing final assembly to produce high quality finished products
• Marking out cylinders to provide quarter lines and exact locations of nozzles, brackets and other attachments, and marking out nozzle holes using centre punch.
• Cutting out holes in cylinders using propane / acetylene torches and plasma torches.
• Creating templates for a range of shapes and profiles e.g. tangential nozzle in cylinder.
• Joining metal cylinders together using temporary attachments, chain blocks and similar equipment.
• Cutting and shaping weld preparation bevels on cylinder main seams and also nozzle weld preparations.
• Preparing weld bevels on pipework and tacking together pipes and flanges ready for welding.
• Following safety protocol, including wearing PPE - such as air fed mask, gloves, protective footwear, ear plugs or defenders, etc.

The Candidate:

• To be a successful fabricator at Vessco, you will have previous experience using factory equipment such as horizontal saws, pillar drill, rotators, manipulators, cranes, safely and effectively.
• Experience with pipework or structural steelwork would be advantageous.
• You must have ideally had previous experience within the heavy industry and working with pressure vessels, and are comfortable working at height and within confined spaces.
• You must be able to accurately read and understand fabrication drawing, being confident with simple math calculations including fractions and decimals.
• It is crucial you understand factory safety standards, being able to work safely and be aware of potential hazards in the workplace.
• While not a necessity, forklift training would be advantageous.

Benefits:

• Company events
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Private medical insurance

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