TIG Welder / Fabricator

Location: Lower Dicker,Hailsham,

Salary: Competitive, DOE

Contract: Full time, Permanent

Benefits: A competitive salary, private medical insurance, 25 days holiday, salary sacrifice company pension, life insurance, a state-of-the-art working environment!

Our Client has been established in its field Since 1964, they have been leader high quality ultra-high vacuum products and services.

As pioneers in the field of UHV technology, They focus on innovation, reliability and quality has helped great minds take great leaps forward. Their products are widely used by the world's leading Universities and research institutions, from NASA and the European Space Agency to the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

They have a new, purpose-built manufacturing facility near Hailsham, East Sussex and are entered an exciting new phase in their development as they embark on an ambitious expansion programme

As our TIG Welder / Fabricator you will be responsible for:

• To ensure all TIG Welding projects are completed in conformance with specifications and set time scales.
• Fabrication and welding of vacuum chambers, components and sub-assemblies as required in line with planned manufacturing operations to defined quality standards and timescales.
• Complete projects in accordance with planned schedules aligning fabrication and welding workload with machine shop operations.
• Quality Control evaluations. Set up and running of leak checking operations using mass spectrometry equipment, (helium leak detectors) on all chamber vessels.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Manages personal workload, meeting all targets set.
• Works well within the team, maintaining effective relationships with colleagues in welding department.
• Demonstrates a flexible attitude coping with changing priorities in a fast paced environment.
• Understands the importance of quality, time frames and customer requirements.
• Looks for continuous improvement in quality and time saving solutions.
• Completes work in a effective and safe manner, following guidelines.
• Ability to prioritise projects throughout team to achieve targets incorporating CIT, (call in time / Overtime).
• Understands and works to the 5s program.
• Follow all health and safety regulations and seek to maintain and improve these standards.

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Knowledge or experience of welding and fabrication processes would be beneficial
• Previous experience of working in the vacuum industry would be advantageous.
• Qualified to BTech/HNC/HND level in a Mechanical Engineering or Manufacturing discipline.
• TIG Welding. (Ideally working with stainless steel & Mu metal).
• Established skillset in metal fabrication and welding including the use of precision measuring equipment.
• Able to read specified drawings.
• Comfortable working to deadlines set by lead technician.
• Basic knowledge of turning would be an advantage.
• Follow all health and safety regulations and seek to maintain and improve these standards

Qualifications

Minimum of 3 years experience in TIG Welding

Personal Attributes

• Good constructive communicator.
• Flexible and able to adapt to short term changes.
• Supports project completion through problem solving

TPA are a specialist recruitment agency recruiting on behalf of our client. If you think you are a close fit for this position, please apply and we will also register you for any upcoming positions that may be suitable.