Quality Inspector - Welding

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. You’ll be part of the on-site Quality Team, supporting welders, platers and skilled/semi-skilled operatives. You’ll work closely with internal project teams and supervision, and you’ll liaise externally with customers, client inspectors and relevant subcontractors.

What you'll be doing

• Carry out visual inspection (VI) and magnetic particle inspection (MT/MPI) of welds, identifying and reporting defects and non-conformances.
• Ensure required inspections are completed and records are maintained to the expected standard.
• Control non-conforming materials and raise non-conformance reports (NCRs) as needed.
• Support investigations and root-cause analysis, helping drive effective corrective actions.
• Review welding specifications and product standards, ensuring information and reporting requirements are in place before work starts.
• Support delivery of the project quality plan, ITPs and QCRs, and help ensure teams understand what “good” looks like.
• Carry out calibration of internal equipment used in production processes.
• Promote a relentless focus on Zero Harm and Right First Time throughout the fabrication team.

Who we're looking for

• Practical experience in welding and fabrication environments, including VI and MT/MPI.
• Self-motivated, able to work independently and confidently on a busy site.
• Strong communication skills, with the confidence to raise issues clearly and constructively.
• Highly observant with excellent attention to detail.
• Good report writing and numeracy skills.
• Good IT skills, including Microsoft Office 365.
• Ability to plan your work and deliver to deadlines.

Qualifications & Certifications

• CSWIP 3.0 Welding Visual Inspector (essential)
• Magnetic Particle Testing Level 2 (MT L2) (essential)
• Responsible Welding Coordinator (RWC) (desirable)

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: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com

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