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About The Role
A Fabrication Supervisor is required for a full-time, permanent position in Bradford (BD4), offering a salary between £39,000 and £41,500 per annum depending on experience. This hands-on role involves overseeing fabrication, welding, and workshop operations, as well as coordinating site activities. Responsibilities include allocating labour, monitoring progress, and supporting management with procurement and general office duties. Candidates must have proven experience within a fabrication, welding, or manufacturing environment, ideally with previous supervisory responsibility. Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage a team effectively are essential for this position. The role reports directly into senior management.
An excellent opportunity for an experienced Fabrication Supervisor to join a well-established company.
Job Type: Full-Time, Permanent.
Salary: £39,000 - £41,500 Per Annum, Depending on Experience.
Location: Bradford BD4.
Job Description
The company is seeking an experienced Fabrication Supervisor to join their team. This is a hands-on supervisory role with responsibility for fabrication, welding, workshop operations, and site activities, alongside supporting management with procurement and general office tasks.
The successful candidate will have proven experience in a fabrication/welding or manufacturing environment, ideally with previous supervisory or management responsibility. You will be responsible for coordinating day-to-day workshop activities, allocating labour, monitoring progress, and ensuring work is completed safely, efficiently, to the required quality standard, and within agreed deadlines.
Key Duties
- Lead and coordinate day-to-day workshop operations, ensuring labour is planned and work is allocated effectively to meet production schedules and delivery deadlines.
- Convert orders into clear job handovers and production priorities, ensuring the workshop team understands the required scope, sequence, and deadlines.
- Monitor staff output and job progress against programmes, allowed hours, delivery dates, and customer requirements, taking appropriate action where progress is falling behind.
- Oversee and coordinate cutting, drilling, fabrication, welding, painting, galvanising, yard operations, loading, and transport.
- Provide technical knowledge, guidance, and intervention to ensure fabrication and welding work is completed to the required quality standards.
- Review jobs in advance and identify missing materials, drawings, approvals, specifications, or other information that could delay production.
- Help reduce avoidable re-work, omissions, incomplete loads, and delivery failures through effective planning and communication.
- Coordinate with management, workshop staff, clients, and suppliers to support effective project delivery.
- Ensure safe working practices and company Health & Safety procedures are consistently followed across workshop, yard, and site activities.
- Assist with material and sundry procurement, stock control, and general materials management, ensuring requirements are identified in good time.
- Undertake occasional site work and travel as required.
- Support management with general operational and administrative tasks where required.
- Contribute positively to the development of the workshop team, processes, and wider business.
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Candidate Requirements
- Proven experience in a fabrication/welding workshop or manufacturing environment, with previous supervisory or management responsibility.
- Strong working knowledge of welding processes, procedures, and quality standards.
- Ability to read and interpret technical/fabrication drawings.
- Strong understanding of Health & Safety within a manufacturing/workshop environment and the ability to enforce safe systems of work.
- Strong leadership, organisational, and time-management skills, with the ability to prioritise work and meet demanding deadlines.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the confidence to communicate effectively with workshop operatives, management, clients, and wider personnel.
- Ability to plan and coordinate labour, materials, and production priorities to ensure projects remain on schedule.
- Good basic IT skills and the ability to assist with procurement and general office/management tasks.
- Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel for occasional site work as required.
- A strong work ethic, self-motivation, resilience, attention to detail, and the ability to work effectively using your own initiative.
- A positive, enthusiastic, and collaborative approach, with a commitment to supporting the continued development of the team and wider business.
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What They Are Looking For
The company is looking for someone who is both technically competent and confident leading people. You should be comfortable being hands-on when required while also having the organisational ability to plan work, manage priorities, identify potential issues, and keep projects moving.
You will be a proactive and dependable team member who takes ownership of deadlines, maintains high standards of workmanship and safety, and communicates clearly at all levels.
Company Benefits
- Good hourly rate of pay
- Overtime available/expected as required
- Holiday entitlement plus bank holidays
- Company Pension Scheme
- Free company car park
About The Company
They are a metal fabricators based in West Yorkshire. Starting in 1992 producing gates and railings for domestic clients. Even to this day, their domestic work is important to them and they have a dedicated team who fabricate and install.
The core business is architectural metal work for commercial clients. The company manufacture and install many products ranging from wrought iron work, machine guarding, security grills and doors, mezzanine flooring, fire escapes, and a vast range of architectural balconies, canopies, balustrades, and staircases.
If you feel that you have the relative skills/attributes to fulfil this role, then please apply now for immediate consideration.
The employer fully supports Equality in Employment. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need.
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