YOUR WASTE. OUR MATERIALS.
Some projects are one of one. Others need making a hundred times exactly the same.
We’re looking for metal fabricators who are comfortable with both.
A big part of the job is production fabrication for our recycling business MYGroup, making frames, pallet boxes, bin units, kiosks and other equipment that needs to be strong, accurate and consistent. You’ll work from drawings, cut and prepare stock, fabricate and weld assemblies, clean and finish your work, and get it ready for powder coat or paint.
Then there’s ReFactory.
When a bespoke furniture, shopfit or creative build comes through the workshop, you might find yourself pulled onto something completely different, working alongside our designers and other makers to turn an idea or drawing into something that hasn’t existed before.
It’s a role for someone who enjoys fabrication and takes pride in getting the fundamentals right but also likes having the occasional problem thrown at them and being trusted to work out how to make it.
AT A GLANCE
SALARY
£14–£19 / hour
depending on experience
CONTRACT
Permanent · full-time
6-month probation
REPORTS TO
ReFactory Design & Production Office
HOURS
Mon–Fri, 7:00am–5:00pm
47.5 hrs/week · 30-min lunch
LOCATION
Goole Site — Opus 36, New Potter Grange Rd, DN14 6BZ
· some work at The Maltings — Turpin Ln, South Milford, Leeds LS25 5FP
own transport required
HOLIDAY
30 days’ leave
rising with service
Holiday in full: 30 days’ annual leave, separate from bank holidays. The site runs on bank holidays, so they’re normal working days — but you’re free to book them off against your allowance. Entitlement rises by one day for each full year of service, up to five extra days (35 after five years).
ABOUT REFACTORY
ReFactory is the in-house design-and-make function of MYGroup, a Yorkshire waste-management and recycling group that has spent 35 years keeping material out of landfill. Across its sites it recovers just about everything ,ocean plastic, beauty and clinical packaging, scrap timber and metal , and ReFactory is the part that closes the loop, turning that recovered waste into new materials and products. Where capability and creativity meet, even ‘unrecyclable’ material becomes something new.
No two projects are the same, different waste turns up every day, and a lot of the craft is taking it apart and working out what it could become. We've delivered bespoke products and installations for some of the UK's best-known brands, all from material they'd otherwise have thrown away.
Alongside that creative work, our workshop supports the wider MYGroup operation, producing the practical equipment, frames and fabricated products our businesses need every day.
That means there’s a good mix here: production work where consistency matters, and creative work where sometimes the answer hasn’t been worked out yet.
THE ROLE
We want experienced metal fabricators who can take a job from drawing and raw stock through to a finished fabrication ready for coating, painting or assembly.
Most of the day-to-day work is MIG fabrication in mild steel. You’ll measure and cut stock to size, prepare components, weld and assemble fabrications, clean and dress welds and make sure the finished piece is right before it leaves your hands.
Production quality matters. If you’re making a run of pallet boxes, frames, bin units or kiosks, number twenty needs to be as good as number one.
But this isn't only a production welding job.
ReFactory takes on bespoke furniture, retail, shopfitting and installation projects, often using reclaimed and unusual materials. When those jobs need metalwork, you’ll work alongside our designers, joiners and other makers to figure out how to build them.
You’ll:
- Fabricate and MIG weld mild-steel products and assemblies
- Read and work accurately from fabrication drawings
- Measure, mark out and cut metal stock to size
- Prepare components and assemble fabrications accurately
- Clean, dress and finish welds to a high standard
- Prepare finished fabrications for powder coating, painting or further assembly
- Produce repeat and batch work consistently and efficiently
- Check your own work and take responsibility for its quality
- Help solve fabrication problems when a drawing or idea needs turning into something that actually works
- Work on bespoke ReFactory furniture, shopfit and creative fabrication projects when required
- Operate workshop tools and equipment safely and look after what you use
- Keep quality high, waste low and jobs moving to time and budget
- Work safely. health and safety is non-negotiable, and we look out for each other
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
ESSENTIAL
- Proven experience in metal fabrication and MIG welding
- Confident working with mild steel and producing strong, clean and accurate fabrications
- Able to read and work independently from fabrication drawings
- Comfortable measuring, marking out, cutting and preparing metal stock
- Able to fabricate accurately
- Good weld finishing and preparation skills
- Able to repeat a fabrication consistently across production runs
- A practical, problem-solving head, if something doesn't quite work on the bench, you think about how to put it right
- A good eye for detail and pride in the finished job
- Comfortable working independently and as part of a wider workshop team
- Full UK manual driving licence, you’ll occasionally drive between sites
- Your own transport
- You take pride in doing things right, and in doing right by the planet
DESIRABLE
- TIG welding experience
- Experience working across different metals and materials
- Experience producing bespoke or one-off fabrications
- Furniture, architectural metalwork, shopfitting or similar creative fabrication experience
- Experience developing prototypes or solving fabrication problems from a rough concept
- Experience working with reclaimed or recycled materials
- On-site installation experience
WHAT YOU’LL GET
- A genuine mixture of production and creative fabrication work
- Regular, dependable fabrication work without spending every day making exactly the same thing
- The chance to work on unusual ReFactory projects alongside designers, joiners and other makers
- Room to develop across different materials, fabrication methods and techniques
- The satisfaction of seeing things you’ve made being used across MYGroup, and waste materials turned into products people genuinely want
- A permanent, full-time role with a workplace pension and 30 days’ holiday (rising with service)
- A multi-disciplinary workshop where practical skill, problem solving and good craftsmanship are valued
HOW TO APPLY
Send your CV and a short cover note to [email protected]
If you have photos of fabrication or welding work you’re particularly proud of, send those too, we’d much rather see what you can make than read another paragraph telling us about it.
Pay: £14.00-£19.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Free parking
- On-site parking
Work Location: In person
