Trainee/apprentice Fabricator

This is an exciting opportunity to develop a career with a market leading company.

Salary range will be set at National Minimum Wage for your age and be reviewed in line with company policy and age bands.

**The Company**:
Forward Waste Management (FWM) is a dynamic and focused company providing innovative and value-added waste management services, primarily focused towards the manufacturing sector.

Privately owned and established for over 15 years, FWM is a successful formation of five trading division achieving £10m annual revenue through a 55+ strong team of highly competent and dedicated qualified waste managers, engineers and support staff. We serve an enviable client list of well-known blue-chip brands, as a fast paced, service excellence led business we are always looking to stay ahead of industry trends and competitors.

This opportunity is working for its Engineering division that designs, engineers. manufactures, and maintains specialist plant and machinery for the recycling and waste management sector. This role is based in Barry docks.

**The role**:
**Duties**:

- Assist engineers to strip down and rebuild machinery.
- Assist welder with fabricating work and repairs of machinery.
- Cleaning machines prior to repairs.
- Collection of parts from suppliers
- Stock take and record keeping.
- Loading / unloading vehicles with the use of a forklift
- Painting parts.
- Ensure workshop and engineering yard is kept in a clean and tidy manner.
- Assisting engineers at client sites
- Delivering consumables and waste containers

**Skills and experience**:

- Ability and experience of using engineering hand tools
- Experience working in a engineering / manufacturing environment
- Numerate and literate to be able to read and understand plans / instructions
- Excellent attention to detail
- Forklift license is describable
- Driving license is essential
- Versatile and willing to take on a varied job role
- Has a can-do attitude
- Able to work unsupervised and to successfully complete tasks within tight deadlines

**Qualifications**

You will need to have achieved 5 GCSE's at grades A-C, to include Maths, English and Sciences as a minimum. Any experience in an industrial environment or engineering qualifications is desirable but not essential.

**Job Type**: Apprenticeship

**Salary**: £6.83-£9.18 per hour

**Benefits**:

- On-site parking

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday