Plater - Hinkley Point

About the role

Join our Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick team as a Plater on the Hinkley Point C Project.

About Hinkley Point C

The first new nuclear power station to be built in the UK in over 20 years; Hinkley Point C in Somerset will provide low-carbon electricity for around 6 million homes, create thousands of jobs and bring lasting benefits to the UK economy.

Marking a significant milestone in the revitalisation of our nuclear power industry, Hinkley Point C will make a major contribution to the UKs move to reduce carbon emissions. The electricity generated by its two EPR reactors will offset 9 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions a year.

Role Purpose

To carry out high-quality plating, fabrication, and assembly of steel components for the Hinkley Point C project in accordance with BBK standards, project specifications, and nuclear site safety requirements. The Industrial Plater is responsible for interpreting engineering drawings, preparing materials, fabricating components, and ensuring work is delivered safely, accurately, and on schedule.

What you'll be doing

• Interpret and work from complex engineering drawings, isometrics, and fabrication

specifications.
- Measure, cut, shape, and assemble steel plate and structural sections.
- Prepare and align materials for welding, including marking, bevelling, forming, and tack welding.
- Fabricate supports, brackets, ducts, pipework components, platforms, and other structural items.
- Use industrial machinery such as guillotines, rollers, presses, plasma cutters, and grinders.
- Conduct dimensional checks and ensure tolerances meet nuclear construction standards.
- Work closely with welders, inspectors (QA/QC), and installation teams to ensure seamless workflow.
- Work in full compliance with Hinkley Point C nuclear safety regulations, RAMS, and BBK safety protocols.
- Demonstrate strong adherence to PPE requirements, hot-work controls, lifting operations, and site permits.
- Maintain housekeeping standards and good control of materials and equipment.
- Report unsafe conditions, near misses, or incidents immediately.
- Follow BBK's quality management system and contribute to traceability documentation.
- Ensure all fabricated components meet project tolerances, specifications, and inspection standards.
- Participate in inspections, fit-ups, and sign-off processes with QA personnel.
- Collaborate with welders, riggers, supervisors, and engineering teams.
- Attend toolbox talks, daily briefings, and safety stand-downs as required.
- Provide updates on work progress, delays, or technical issues.

Who we're looking for

• Level 3 Apprenticeship in Plating, Fabrication, Welding, Structural Steelwork, Shipbuilding or Metalworking
• Demonstrated experience as an industrial plater in heavy fabrication or construction.
• Ability to read and interpret complex fabrication drawings.
• Strong understanding of tolerances, alignment, and fabrication processes.
• Experience working in highly regulated environments (nuclear, energy, or petrochemical)
• CCNSG
• Able to obtain a security clearance.

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 (BBK) is a market leading mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) and mechanical, electrical and instrumentation (ME&I) solutions provider with over 100 years of engineering expertise.

We design, install and maintain the systems that make building infrastructure work. Emphasising environmentally efficient technologies, digital construction and offsite manufacturing, our experienced teams deliver high quality solutions across the following sectors: Aviation, Buildings, Civils, Defence, Energy and New Build Nuclear.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality.

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

Job Reference: BBUK16561