Plater/Fabricator

My client requires 2 to 3 skilled engineers

KEY TASKS

• 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 aluminum
• 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.

Skills

• 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
• Ideally had previous experience within the heavy industry and working with pressure vessels
• Comfortable working at height and within confined spaces
• You must be able to accurately read and understand fabrication drawing
• Confident with simple math calculations including fractions and decimals