Job Description

Position: Plater 

Job ID: 936/273

Location: Portsmouth 

Rate/Salary: Local/Non- local rates available 

Type: Contract- 12 months 

HSB Technical Ltd is a specialist recruiter within the Power & Propulsion, Shipbuilding, Shipping & Energy and Aerospace sectors. We have a number of permanent and contract vacancies for multiple businesses across the UK and overseas.

The below job description will outline this position of: Plater

Typically, this person will join our established client working on Type 45 Destroyers. 

HSB Technical’s client is a very established and well-regarded business entity.

Duties and responsibilities of the Plater:

Read/Interpret Engineering Drawings and Guidance information.

Accurate marking off using measuring tools, being familiar with the use of straight edges, spirit levels, set squares, chalk/string lines, plumb bobs etc.

Have all the basic hand skills, i.e. burning & chamfering of various gauges and types of plate.

Tack welding and short-run fillet welding 

Confident in Burning and Grinding 

Qualifications and requirement for the Plater:

Marine experience desirable.           

Understand and follow health & safety arrangements

Minimum of NVQ level 3 or Apprenticeship Qualification or equivalent                      

This vacancy is being advertised by HSB Technical who have been appointed to act as the recruitment consultancy for this role