Welding & Works Manager

Are you an experienced Welding and Works Manager looking for a new career with a family-owned and established Pressure Vessels specialist based in the Dudley?
If yes, we want to hear from you!
Annual Salary: £50,000 to £60,000 (DOE)
Weekly Hours: 7am to 4pm Monday to Thursday, Friday 7am to 1pm
Main Job Responsibilities:

• Organisation of the shop floor.
• Production management, making sure jobs are allocated efficiently and go out on time.
• Managing vessels in production, making sure they are manufactured correctly to the drawing and solving day to day issues, drawing queries, material and consumable management, engraving nameplates.
• Ensuring materials are job ready.
• Quality control of incoming material and finished vessels
• Organising machining, ordering materials, NDE, third party inspectors.
• Hands on help where required eg moving vessels, loading and unloading wagons, taking vessel to be x-rayed etc. Using the crane and driving the forklift is essential.
• Day to day and periodic machine maintenance and calibration.
• Ensuring the Health & safety of the shopfloor, maintaining a tidy workshop, risk assessments and shop floor checks.
• Managing welder qualifications, and procedures.
• Supervision of all shop floor employees (discipline, welfare, well being, recruitment)
• Overseeing overtime work.
• Organising and maintaining our PED/PESR, ISO audits.
• Keep customer and supplier audits up to date.
• Liaise with clients - some require regular production updates, giving lead times etc.
• Dealing with customer complaints and non-conformities swiftly, proactively and positively.
• Attend weekly production meeting with a view to knowing where each job is.
• Keeping manufacturing schedule spreadsheet up to date (daily).

Requirements:

• Weld procedure and qualification knowledge.
• MIG/ TIG/ Subarc welding knowledge.
• Pressure vessel design and manufacture experience.
• NDE knowledge.

Please click APPLY now for this great opportunity as a Welding and Works Manager!