Plater

**Generous joining bonuses for direct applicants - £1,000.00 +**

Due to significant success and a buoyant order book, both currently and confirmed in the coming 3-year period, we have multiple opportunities for skilled platers to join our team at our Wakefield manufacturing facility on permanent, fixed term and sub-contract terms.

As a plater at Green’s, a company which celebrated it’s 200-year anniversary in 2021, you’ll help to prepare steel or other metal plates and sections for the manufacture of items such as power station boilers, economisers, and pressure vessels for chemical plants and refineries. You may have experience in this line of work, or in something similar such as preparation of material for storage tanks for oil and other liquids, shipbuilding, or even in the production of structural steelwork for oil rigs, bridges, and buildings.

Ideally, you’ll have experience of various thicknesses of metal plate ranging from 5mm to over 100mm, including usage of:

- Cranes and hoists
- Heavy-duty guillotines to cut the plates
- Oxyacetylene flame cutters for curves and complex shapes
- Rollers and presses to curve and bend the plates

**Key Responsibilities**
- Reading and interpreting engineering drawings.
- Measuring and marking out plates and sections for cutting, shaping, and drilling.
- Operating plate cutting machines and edge preparation machines.
- Cutting slots in metal and drilling or punching holes.
- Using roll bending machines and presses to form and shape plates and sections.
- Guiding cranes and hoists for moving and assembling plates.
- Tacking welding fabricated parts together.

**Person Specification**
- Apprentice trained with relevant skill qualification e.g., NVQ L3 in fabrication and welding, is essential
- Ability to read and interpret technical engineering drawings is essential
- Some mathematical ability
- Good concentration skills for using machinery and equipment safely and accurately
- Practical hand skills for using tools and equipment
- Able to work without direct supervision, and as part of a team
- Good attention to detail for working in accordance with quality standards
- A sound understanding and respect for health and safety

**Benefits & Remuneration**

In return for your services, you will receive the following, as standard:

- Enhanced pension - 5% employer contribution
- 25 days annual leave + statutory public holidays
- Cash Health Care Scheme for you & any children
- Life Assurance of 4 x annual salary
- Monthly Reward & Recognition Programmes linked to H&S & peer-peer recognition
- LOS awards including a 4 week paid sabbatical
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to internal Wellbeing Coaches (qualified mental health first aiders)
- Competitive Salary + Overtime
- Company Profit Sharing Bonus
- Your own Personal Development Plan with company commitment to continuous learning and development
- Company Sick Pay

(_WE ARE OPEN TO DISCUSSING FLEXIBLE WORKING OPTIONS)_

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £16.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Bereavement leave
- Company events
- Company pension
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Private dental insurance
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Transport links

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Night shift
- Overtime

Supplemental pay types:

- Signing bonus
- Yearly bonus

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Wakefield: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Fabrication: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person