Welder Team Leader (4 Day Week) in Stafford, Staffordshire

£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.

• 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

• 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

• 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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This vacancy is being advertised by Roundhouse Recruitment Ltd. The services of Roundhouse Recruitment Ltd are that of an Employment Agency.