Fabrication Welding jobs in Staffordshire

Workshop Lead - Steel Fabrication

Wolverhampton | Full-time | Competitive, depending on experience

Unit 44 Central Trading Estate, Cable Street, Wolverhampton, WV2 2RL

Who We Are

Gabitie Group Ltd is a Wolverhampton steel fabricator and staircase specialist. We build steel staircases, mezzanine floors and structural steelwork for clients who come back to us job after job. We’re also UKCA certified, so quality isn’t optional here.

The Role

This is a hands-on lead role. You’re on the tools every day, fabricating, assembling and welding alongside the team, and you’re the one setting the pace and the standard. We’re not after someone who wants to swap the workshop for an office. We want an A-player who leads from the front and is still the best pair of hands on the floor.

Most of our work is steel staircases, mezzanine floors, structural steelwork and steel buildings, plus bespoke fabrication and the odd refurbishment. Everything is built from CAD drawings, so you’ll read a detailed drawing confidently and build exactly to it: square, level and looking the part, every time.

What You’ll Do

• Fabricate, MIG weld and assemble steel staircases, structural steelwork and steel buildings;
• Make brackets, supports and modifications as jobs need them;
• Refurbish and modify older jobs when clients bring them back;
• Work accurately from CAD drawings, every job;
• Organise the workshop’s daily workload;
• Check and sign off the team’s work, and put it right where needed;
• Lead site teams fitting steelwork and staircases when a job needs it.

Leading the Team

You’re the benchmark. You’ll mentor less experienced fabricators, keep quality consistent across the workshop, and be the person people bring problems to before they become bigger ones. When a job goes out to site, you can run the fit too, so the steel goes in as well as it was built.

What You Need

• Skilled MIG welder, sound structural welds every time;
• Proven fabrication and assembly experience, staircase work a big plus;
• Solid experience with structural steelwork;
• Confident reading detailed CAD drawings and building exactly to them;
• Experience supervising or running a team on the tools;
• Happy to take charge on site as well as in the workshop;
• A-player mentality: pride in your work, ownership of the outcome, no hand-holding needed;
• Full driving licence.

Nice to Have

• Supervisory or team leader training, such as SSSTS;
• Coded welding qualifications;
• Steel fitting or erection experience, working from scaffold or MEWPs;
• CSCS, IPAF or PASMA tickets;
• Own hand tools, but not essential.

What You Get

• Varied, hands-on work, no two jobs the same;
• Real authority to run the workshop your way, not just a title;
• Steady business with repeat clients and a full pipeline;
• Training and tickets paid for where it makes sense;
• Company pension, flexitime and free on-site parking.

How to Apply

Send your CV with a short covering note on why you’re right for this and the jobs you’ve worked on recently. Photos of work you’re proud of beat a polished personal statement every time.

Pay: £27,000.00-£36,500.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Flexitime
• Free parking
• On-site parking

Application question(s):

• How do you control distortion on a long welded assembly?
• Tell me about a time you had to pull someone up on their work. How did they take it?
• You’re running a site fit and the steel doesn’t line up with what’s there. What happens next?
• Do you have a full UK driving licence?

Work Location: In person