Welding Coordinator

About the job

Job Title: Welding Engineer Coordinator
Location: HPC, Bridgwater UK
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF52473

At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Welding Engineer Coordinator at our site in Hinkley Point C, Bridgwater.

The MEH alliance work across the prestigious Hinkley Point C Nuclear project to integrate and coordinate the delivery of all main MEH, cabling, and associated support services. This innovative approach will help different contractors work as a single entity to deliver the complex installation of cabling and pipework in the power station's 2,500 rooms.

The role

As a Welding Engineer Coordinator, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You will be the link between the welding engineering team and the construction teams on-site.

Day to day, you'll ensure that the construction team have everything they need from a welding perspective.

• Ensure that site welding activities are carried out in accordance with project requirements.
• Implement weld procedures and welder/operator qualifications in line with the relevant codes and standards.
• Assist in the establishment of welding procedure qualification requirements (inc., resource, materials, and equipment) for the project, liaising with Site Welding Lead.
• Assist in the establishment of welder/operator qualification requirements for the project, liaising with Site Welding Lead.
• Assist in the establishment of equipment requirements for manual, semi-automatic and orbital welding processes.

Essential experience of the Welding Engineer Coordinator:

Minimum HNC (HND preferred) in Welding & Fabrication OR equivalent experience
Experience welding professionally

This role is 37 hours per week, on a 9-day fortnight. There is a secondment allowance for anyone based more than 2 hours from site.

The successful candidate must be able to achieve BPSS security clearance for this role.

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, with life assurance
• 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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• '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

Babcock International

For over 130 years Babcock International have 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.

If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 04/08/23