Location
Golborne, Greater Manchester | United Kingdom
Job description
United Living Group is a collection of four businesses dedicated to creating a connected, sustainable future:
- United Living Property Services: Revitalizing homes and communities through the regeneration of living spaces.
- United Living Infrastructure Services: Delivering resilient infrastructure for a stable and functional future.
- United Living New Homes: Providing build-to-rent and affordable housing solutions to address community housing challenges.
- United Living Connected: Connecting people through fixed-line and mobile infrastructure, enabling seamless communication in today's digital age.
Job Description
**THIS IS A TEMP ROLE. DAILY RATE NEGOTIABLE**
You will be supporting the Welding Manager and leading in the timely and correct delivery of all aspects of welding and materials engineering duties. These duties will include the design and implementation of welding procedures and new business systems. You will assist QA/QC in conducting root cause analysis of shop and site welding/material difficulties and welding document errors.
You will be expected to be the subject matter expert and technical authority for several gas site projects, able to apply your knowledge in a variety of settings, confident and capable of making critical engineering decisions; the ideal candidate will either hold or be working towards (IENG) or (CENG) status, and working knowledge of ISO 3824-2
The position is based in the Golborne area and is easily commutable from the northwest. The contract period is for six months with an opportunity for extension depending on workload and candidate.
Remote working for the right candidate is also a possibility.
The following activities are key in the successful delivery of this role:
- Keep abreast of welding developments and best practices.
- To assist the Welding Manager in reviewing contract requirement related to welding. Provide comments/feedback to commercial and production departments on welding topics on projects specification/procedure/tender.
- Consult with third party inspection authorities whenever required for the project and issuing any necessary work orders for inspections and testing.
- Auditing of engineering processes on sites and in business
- Writing and approving pWPS’s, WPQR’s and WPS’s, updating and maintaining the files of approved WPS’s.
- Confident to stop processes if they do not meet specified requirements.
- Raise non-conformity reports, performing root cause analysis and approving re-work processes.
- Collate, update and file documents electronically relevant to welding engineering.
- Issue, maintain and revalidate welder’s qualification test records (WQT’s).
- Assist the welding manager in providing expertise in the development of specific procedures, techniques, checklists, sequences, or any other welding-related requirements.
- The development of specific procedures, techniques, checklists, sequences, or any other engineering-related requirements.
- Evaluate material grades and Positive Material Identification (PMI) tests for conformity to welding procedures and standards/codes.
- Liaise with the Quality Engineers/Supervisors/Inspectors, Project Managers, Production Supervisors and Clients Representatives whenever required for the project.
- To attend and facilitate meetings, seminars, training workshops and other work-related issues, as required, which may involve working outside regular hours and travel to remote sites across the UK.
- To comply with health and safety legislation, policies, and procedures in the performance of the duties of the post.
- To maintain confidentiality and observe data protection and associated guidelines where appropriate.
- Perform other role-related duties as assigned by the department head.
Qualifications
In addition to the above:
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience working as a welding engineer
- Excellent working knowledge of ferrous materials.
Engineering Degree or Foundation Degree or HND in Welding, Metallurgy or Mechanical Engineering and/or IWT/IWE diploma issued by The Welding Institute (TWI).
Has an excellent working knowledge of non-destructive testing and mechanical testing methods.
- Has exceptional knowledge of welding, fabrication, pipelines, and structures and capable of interpreting international codes & standards for welding and testing.
- Must have exceptional people skills, with practical communication skills and self-confidence.
- Shall be computer literate and specifically knowledgeable in Word, Outlook, and some of the advanced features of Excel.
- Responsible, conscientious, punctual, highly organised, initiative-taking, and able to work under pressure, both on own initiative and as part of a busy team.
- The ability to oversee multiple varied projects from order through to completion.
- Have experience of applying specialist welding and material knowledge to complex problems and have excellent technical writing skills to communicate the outcome with a range of stakeholders of varying professional backgrounds.
Additional Information
How to Apply:
If you're ready to be part of our expanding team and contribute to our success, apply today for immediate consideration. Please include expected day rate and any exclusions within your application.
As a business United Living prefer to hire directly and we will be in touch with our PSL Agencies if we require support. We do not accept speculative CVs from agencies. If speculative CVs are sent, no fee will be applicable.
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