Quality Inspector - Welding

About the role

Join our Painter Brothers team in Hereford and play a hands on role in delivering Right First Time fabrication. As a Quality Inspector, you'll be the expert eyes on the ground-protecting safety, strengthening compliance, and ensuring our customers receive defect free work they can trust.

As a Welding Quality Control Inspector, you will play a key role in ensuring welded steel fabrications are manufactured to the required drawings, specifications, welding standards, and customer requirements. Working closely with production, engineering, and programming teams, you will help identify welding and fabrication issues, drive corrective actions, and support continuous improvement across the business.

Once training is complete, you will be required to work a rotating shift pattern, covering 6am-2pm and 2pm-10pm shifts.

What you'll be doing

• Carry out visual inspections of welded fabrications throughout the manufacturing process and prior to dispatch.
• Verify that welding and fabrication activities are completed in accordance with drawings, specifications, welding procedures, and customer requirements.
• Inspect weld quality, fit up, dimensions, and overall workmanship to ensure compliance with required standards.
• Identify welding defects and quality concerns, ensuring they are clearly documented and communicated to the relevant departments.
• Work with production, engineering, and programming teams to investigate quality issues, identify root causes, and implement effective corrective actions.
• Support the development of preventative measures to reduce recurring welding and fabrication defects.
• Promote a "right first time" culture by providing timely feedback and guidance to manufacturing teams.
• Monitor and record inspection results, ensuring accurate and traceable quality records are maintained.
• Assist in developing and improving welding inspection processes, quality checks, and fabrication standards.
• Ensure measuring and inspection equipment is calibrated and maintained to support accurate inspection activities.
• Liaise with welders and supervisors to ensure quality requirements are understood and achieved throughout production.

Who we're looking for

Essential qualities and experience:

• Self motivated and able to work independently.
• Good communication skills.
• Observant and high levels of attention to detail.
• Good report writing and numeracy skills.
• Good IT skills (knowledge of MS Office 365).
• Ability to work to deadlines.

Desirable qualities and experience:

• Knowledge of ISO 9001.
• Knowledge of Fabrication and Welding Techniques.
• Knowledge of Visual Inspection, Magnetic Particle Inspection, Dye Penetrant Inspection.
• Understanding of manufacturing processes and process controls.
• Ability to interpret technical drawings and specifications.

Past welding experience.

Benefits

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK's most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata).
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partner's leave.
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more.

Employer commitment

We are a Disability Confident Employer and are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We offer applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.