Job Description

Plater

Location: Newcastle upon Tyne

Agency: Search Consultancy

Payment Terms: Excellent PAYE Rates (Plus Holiday Pay & Pension)

Position: Long-Term (Temp-to-Perm Contract)

Shift Options: Choice of Day or Night Shifts

Search Consultancy is currently recruiting for an experienced Plater to join a well-established fabrication facility in Newcastle. This is a long-term position offering excellent stability, with a direct path from temporary to permanent employment for the right candidate.

We are looking for a skilled tradesperson capable of interpreting technical drawings, prepping materials, and fabricating assemblies safely and efficiently to exact specifications.

We are offering two distinct shift patterns to suit your availability, both paid at highly competitive PAYE rates:

• Option 1: Night Shift

  • Schedule: 4 Nights per week (12-hour shifts)

  • Benefit: Includes a premium shift uplift rate for unsociable hours.

• Option 2: Day Shift

  • Schedule: 5 Days per week (Standard 42-hour working week)

• Plating & Fabrication: Reading and interpreting engineering blueprints, technical drawings, and weld symbols to mark out, cut, and shape steel sections and plates.

• Assembly & Tack Welding: Setting out, positioning, and aligning components accurately using clamps and fixtures, before securing them with tack welds ahead of final production.

• Material Preparation: Operating fabrication machinery safely, including ironworkers, rollers, drills, guillotines, and oxy-propane cutting equipment to prep steel parts.

• Precision Measurement: Checking dimensions, squareness, and alignments against strict engineering tolerances using standard measuring instruments.

• Defect Rectification: Identifying discrepancies in materials or drawings and carrying out necessary modifications or repairs to ensure parts fit perfectly.

• Safety & Maintenance: Adhering strictly to workshop safety regulations, maintaining a tidy workstation, and looking after plant equipment and tooling.

• Site Cards: A valid ACE (Assuring Competence in Engineering) Card or a CSCS Card (Blue Skilled Worker or Gold Advanced Craft) is required.

• Qualifications: Must hold the relevant NVQ or City & Guilds qualifications in fabrication/engineering to support your card.

• Experience: Proven track record working as a Plater/Fabricator within a busy workshop or manufacturing environment (structural steel experience not essential).

• Tools & PPE: Your own standard hand tools, measuring equipment, and 5-point site PPE.

• Reliability: A punctual, professional approach to long-term shift work.

• Right to Work: Valid right to work in the UK.

• Temp-to-Perm Progression: This is not a short-term stopgap. The client is looking to invest in long-term staff, offering a secure transition to a permanent contract.

• Full PAYE Benefits: Peace of mind with standard PAYE employment, including accrued holiday pay, statutory pension contributions, and no self-assessment or umbrella company stresses.

• Flexible Shift Premiums: Boost your earnings with a substantial rate uplift on our 4-night schedule.

Search is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from all suitably skilled or qualified applicants, regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/beliefs, sexual orientation or age