Company: Touchline Fabrications Ltd Location: Preston Wage: £7.55 per hour (to be reviewed after 6 months) Ref: Expiry: 31/07/2025
Touchline Fabrications is looking for motivated individuals to join their team as Welding and Fabrication Apprentices. You’ll be involved in creating heavy-duty mild steel structures, including columns, beams, staircases, and more. Before applying, we strongly encourage you to:
Visit their website: Steel Construction in Preston | Touchline Fabrications
Read the attached leaflet to understand what a welding and fabrication apprenticeship involves.
What we're looking for:
- Good timekeeping and reliability
- A mature attitude and strong health & safety awareness
- Good transport links to the workplace or access to your own vehicle
- A genuine interest in a long-term opportunity with the company
DUTIES
Touchline Fabrication LTD is looking for a highly motivated individual, with some knowledge and understanding of welding and steel fabrication. The successful candidate will have good time keeping skills to work alongside our team carrying out welding and fabrication tasks along with other daily tasks as required.
- Welding and fabricating structural steel, including large columns and beams.
- Working safely in a busy working environment
- Communicating with other employees and steelwork engineers
- Cleaning up after each task
- Working both inside the workshop and outside the workshop in different weather conditions.
- Preparing the machinery ready for inspections and repairs
- Identifying different tools, machinery, materials including nuts and bolts
- Fabricating steel plates, baskets, beams, columns etc
- Good English skills to complete worksheets and time-sheets.
WORKING HOURS PER WEEK
Monday to Thursday 08.00 – 17.00. Friday 08.00 – 14.00
REQUIRED SKILLS
Good timekeeping
Good writing skills to fill in worksheets and timesheets
Willing to learn
Hardworking
Can follow detailed instructions
REQUIRED QUALITIES
Good people skills
Can work as a team
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
English and Maths A* - C
Experience in mechanical engineering desirable
NUMBER OF VACANCIES
1
FUTURE PROSPECTS
Potential of full time employment and progression on successful completion of the apprenticeship