Bilfinger
Pipefitters - AWE
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About Bilfinger
Bilfinger is a leading international industrial services provider, driving efficiency and sustainability for the process industry. With about 31,000 employees and over €5.4 billion in revenue in 2025, we offer solutions in consulting, engineering, manufacturing, maintenance, turnarounds, and digital applications across key sectors like energy, chemicals, pharma, and oil & gas.
About Bilfinger UK
Shape the future with Bilfinger UK: With a strong commitment to sustainability, Bilfinger UK stands out as a premier provider of engineering and maintenance services. For over 50 years, Bilfinger UK has consistently pushed the boundaries of innovation, delivering advanced solutions that support industries, infrastructure, and communities across the United Kingdom.
As a key member of the globally respected Bilfinger Group, Bilfinger UK has built a reputation as a versatile leader, offering both onshore and offshore services. From energy and utilities to pharmaceuticals and petrochemicals, the company’s broad expertise across various sectors makes it a trusted partner in the industry, as well as a work environment where you can develop your potential. At Bilfinger, we offer a work environment where you can learn and grow. Join us and be part of a team shaping the future!
Job Opportunity: Pipefitter at AWE in Reading
Bilfinger UK is looking for Pipefitters to join us at AWE in Reading.
Responsibilities
As a Pipefitter, your activities will include the following:
- Position and install pipe work with sound knowledge, understanding, and application of techniques and equipment.
- Experience in the manufacture of small and large bore pressure pipe work as well as the installation of pressure pipe work is essential.
- Assist in the design and specification relating to the piping system and piping layout including material selection, pipe stress analysis, piping material line classes, standard and speciality piping components, pressure, and piping support systems.
- Experience in all types of piping systems, design and construction standards, and codes of practice.
- Perform all conventional aspects of the installation, identify any defects, and devise new approaches to problems encountered.
- Regular communication with others to ensure all installation work is checked and approved at each stage, particularly if there are conflicting design specifications, unsuitable conventional materials, or difficult coordination requirements.
- Offer technical guidance to less experienced designers and engineers.
- Determine technical requirements to achieve objectives together with resource requirements.
- Fabricate and shape pipework components by material removal using hand tools and appropriate methods, techniques, and tools.
- Assemble pipework components to meet specifications, securing and checking parts using suitable methods, techniques, connectors, and securing devices.
- Shape pipework by manually applied pressure using approved tools, equipment, and techniques, checking that all the required shaping operations have been completed to specifications.
- Prepare the work area, materials, and equipment so they are ready for engineering activities to be carried out, ensuring procedures and the required safety arrangements are in place.
- Position and install pipework by positioning and securing equipment and components in accordance with the specification, ensuring that all necessary connections to equipment have been completed to the specification.
- Carry out marking on pipework installations in an appropriate sequence using approved methods, identifying and assessing defects and variations and taking appropriate action.
- Reinstate the work area after completing the installation of pipework, separating and correctly storing equipment, components, and materials for reuse as well as waste items for disposal, ensuring the work area has been restored to a safe condition.
- Test the performance and condition of installed pipework using approved procedures and within the agreed timescales, recording and reviewing results and taking appropriate action.
- Ensure adherence to health and safety policy and procedures at all times.
- Ability to guide Trainee Pipefitters may be requested.
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Qualifications
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- NVQ Pipe Fitting Level 3, trade apprenticeship
- CSCS Card required
- Must hold current Security Clearance
Job Details
- Duration: 6 weeks
- NAECI Grade 5
- Site bonus applicable
Contact Information
For additional information, please contact Anna Ferguson by email at anna.ferguson.ext@bilfinger.com.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Bilfinger is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or other characteristics protected by law.
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