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
The following qualities/experience are essential:
- 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.
The following qualities/experience are desirable:
- 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
Why work for us
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.
Why join us?
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- 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/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
About us
Balfour Beatty works at the heart of the UK’s rail networks – designing, enhancing and maintaining thousands of miles of the railways that connect communities and underpin growth.
From feasibility studies, planning and design through to implementation and asset management, we provide multi-disciplinary rail infrastructure services across the lifecycle of rail assets. Our expertise covers electrification, track, power, civils, specialist rail plant, railway systems and technologies.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: [email protected]
Job Reference: BBUK18436
