Welder Team Leader (4 Day Week)

Welder Team Leader (Monday to Thursday)

£30,000 - £40,000 + Monthly Coordinator Payment + Performance Bonus + Overtime (Time-and-a-Half)

Hixon, Staffordshire

Are you an Welder with Supervisory experience looking to take the next step in your career and move into a Hands-On Team Leader role for a Specialist Manufacturer offering progression into Management aswell as Overtime, Bonuses and Fridays off?

This is a 50/50 hands-on welding and team leadership role, giving you the chance to stay practically involved on the shop floor while also helping organise the team, maintain standards, support productivity and develop other welders.

You do not need to already be a Welding Supervisor. This could suit an experienced Welder/Fabricator who has naturally become the person others go to for advice, has trained apprentices or newer welders, and is ready to take their first formal step into leadership.

The company operates across sheet metal fabrication, welding, machining and assembly, producing varied manufactured products rather than repetitive single-product work.

The Role

Approximately 50% hands-on welding and fabrication

Approximately 50% team leader / supervisory duties

Support and coordinate the day-to-day welding team

Train, mentor and develop welders and apprentices

Maintain welding, fabrication and quality standards

Help organise workloads and keep production moving efficiently

Provide practical technical support when welding or fabrication issues arise

Work from engineering drawings and manufacturing requirements

Support productivity, quality and continuous improvement

Remain actively involved on the shop floor

Develop towards greater supervisory and management responsibility

The Person

Strong MIG and/or TIG welding and fabrication experience

Experience training, mentoring or supporting other welders

Able to read and work from engineering drawings

Good understanding of welding quality and fabrication standards

Comfortable taking responsibility and helping organise others

Previous Team Leader, Supervisor or Foreman experience would be advantageous but is not essential

Package

Approximately £32,000 basic salary

Monthly Coordinator payment

Supervisory performance bonus, taking typical on-target earnings to approximately £36,000

Target bonus has historically been achieved regularly

Time-and-a-half overtime when available

Potential total annual earnings in the region of £38,000-£40,000 with overtime

Four-day working week

Monday to Thursday, 7:00am-5:00pm

Every Friday off as standard

Opportunity to progress into a full management position over the next 1-2 years

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