Fabricator / Welder Apprentice
FOLBIGG FABRICATION LTD
HEREFORD (HR2 6LR)
Closes in 11 days (Tuesday 29 April 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 10 January 2025
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Summary
An excellent opportunity working for an established metal fabrication and welding company in our busy workshop based at Rotherwas Industrial Estate, Hereford
- Wage
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£15,311.40 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
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Occasional overtime available
- Training course
- Engineering operative (level 2)
- Hours
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Company working hours:
Monday to Thursday 8.00am to 4.30pm, Fridays 8.00am to 3.30pm
39 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 8 September 2025
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you’ll do at work
You will be working with the rest of our team in our workshop and occasionally on site at our client’s premises. Duties include:
- Fabricating items such as small brackets through to larger structural items such as platforms
- Working on bespoke items for customers e.g tanks, pipework, handrails, staircase, shutters, gates and balustrades
- Training under supervision on machinery such as CNC Plasma cutting machine, powder coating, shot blasting, lathes, tubes, pipe bending, powered rollers and press brake
- Occasional general line maintentance for bottling industry and installations on construction sites
Where you’ll work
UNIT 1 FOLBIGG COURT
RAMSDEN ROAD
ROTHERWAS INDUSTRIAL ESTATE
HEREFORD
HR2 6LR
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
HEREFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE GROUP TRAINING ASSOCIATION LIMITED
Your training course
Engineering operative (level 2)
Equal to GCSE
Your training plan
Formal training is delivered at HWGTA, located in Hereford (HR4 9SX).
Level 2 comprises of:
- Duration approximately 18 months,
- Block release training which includes 1 day per week in a classroom setting to cover practical and theory aspects working to complete the following qualifications:
- EAL Level 2 Diploma in Engineering Operations (Skills)
- EAL Level 2 Certificate in Engineering Operations (Knowledge)
- You will receive monthly visits from your assigned Learning and Development Specialist, who will set you work, monitor your development and wellbeing, and discuss training sessions. They will also prepare you for your End Point Assessment.
- Additional training for functional skills in English and Maths will be undertaken if needed.
- There is also a five-day teambuilding residential trip that is held in the spring of each year offered to all apprentices on programme.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English and Maths (grade 4 or C above)
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Problem solving skills
- Punctuality
- Desirable-mechanically minded
- Enthusiastic
- Motivated
Other requirements
You will be expected to have your own transport to get to and from work.
About this company
We are a metal fabrication company based in Hereford with over 35 years of experience in the industry.
After this apprenticeship
There will be internal opportunities with this role to gain further qualifications e.g. CSCS (Construction Skills Certificate Scheme), IPAF, Confined Space, Welding Coding, Forklift Training
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
HEREFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE GROUP TRAINING ASSOCIATION LIMITED
Lisa Wilkinson
lisa.wilkinson@hwgta.org
01432377002
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000295715.
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Closes in 11 days (Tuesday 29 April 2025 at 11:59pm)
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