Welder

**About the role**
The opportunity to create is all around you. Whatever your level, whatever your role, whatever the project, you’ll be able to take initiative here and get stuck in. We have an exciting opportunity at Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick for a Welder to join our BEP project at Sellafield, Seascale.

**Role Purpose**:

- Work within strictly defined processes and procedures to exacting standards
- Assembly, fabrication, maintenance, repair and decommissioning of systems within Engineering Construction, both on construction sites or at commercial fabrication facilities.

**What you'll be doing**
As a Welder**,** **you will have the following accountabilities
- Work with others to effectively and efficiently complete the allocated tasks,
- Take responsibility as an individual and team member for the quality of the work,
- Support their own learning and development and that of others through activities such as mentoring and sharing of expertise and knowledge,
- Act ethically, displaying maturity, honesty, integrity and responsibility,
- Work safely in accordance with health, safety and environmental legislation, regulations and company-specific requirements,
- Maintain a safe, clean and tidy work area,
- Check for and identify potential hazards in the workplace and take collective responsibility to maintain a safe working environment,
- Question unsafe behaviours and incorrect work practises and procedures.

**Who we're looking for**
You will have the following qualities and experience:

- Comply with appropriate health and safety, risk and quality requirements,
- Correctly select and safely use tools and equipment for the task in hand,
- Assemble and install pipework using the appropriate methods, techniques and equipment in accordance with the specification i
- Ensure the integrity of welding is in accordance with specifications, in line with specified quality procedures and to precise tolerances,
- Work with others and contribute to effective working relationships within an Engineering Construction environment,
- Knowledge and skills to implement the specified method of jointing required within various materials.

**Why work for us**
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more

**About us**
Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick is a leader in mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) and mechanical, electrical and instrumentation (ME&I) solutions.

We design, install and maintain the complex systems and technologies that underpin the UK’s national infrastructure and bring buildings to life.

**Diversity and inclusion**

Job Reference: BBUK06653