Location: Barnsley, South Yorkshire
Are you an experienced Production Engineer with a background in fabrication, welding or heavy engineering, ready to improve how complex steelwork is planned and delivered?
Our Barnsley fabrication facility is a key part of a leading UK engineering and construction contractor, providing in-house manufacturing capability for complex infrastructure projects.
The specialist workshop manufactures structural steel and bespoke engineered products, including railway and pedestrian footbridges, lift shafts and bridge components, with comprehensive fabrication, welding, assembly and finishing capabilities.
As the operation grows, we are looking for an experienced Production Engineer to strengthen manufacturing planning, coordination and performance across the facility.
The Opportunity
In this pivotal role, you will connect the production, design, quality, procurement and project teams, translating detailed designs into safe, efficient and cost-effective manufacturing plans.
Key Responsibilities
- Define production processes and sequences, setting target task times for each operation.
- Review drawings, specifications, bills of materials and contract requirements prior to release to production.
- Ensure production readiness through the timely provision of jigs, fixtures and associated tools & equipment.
- Prepare manufacturing work packs, route cards, cutting lists, material requisitions and job-specific production instructions, including estimated process times for each operation.
- Support production teams with technical queries relating to fabrication sequences, fit-up, dimensional control, distortion management, assembly methods and efficient production flow.
- Monitor material usage, labour allocation, subcontract expenditure and production progress throughout manufacture.
- Review labour efficiency with the production team and implement practical improvement measures.
- Investigate production delays, rework, process inefficiencies and cost overruns, identifying root causes and implementing corrective actions.
- Maintain accurate production and handover records for each project.
- Contribute to production, planning, project review and lessons-learned meetings.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on productivity, waste reduction, process optimisation and cost control.
- Promote and support a strong health, safety and quality culture throughout the fabrication facility.
About You
To succeed in this role, you will be:
- A proactive and organised individual with a structured approach to planning and problem-solving.
- Comfortable working both on the shop floor and collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
- An effective communicator, able to engage confidently with operatives, supervisors, managers, customers, suppliers and inspectors.
- Detail-focused, with a strong commitment to safety, quality and right-first-time delivery.
- Able to manage multiple priorities and respond effectively to changing production and project requirements.
- Commercially aware, with an appreciation of the relationship between production performance, programme delivery and project costs.
Qualifications And Experience
- An engineering qualification such as an HNC/HND, degree, advanced apprenticeship or equivalent industry experience.
- Experience within a steel fabrication, structural steelwork, heavy engineering or manufacturing environment.
- Strong understanding of fabrication and welding processes.
- Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, fabrication details, bills of materials and technical specifications.
- Experience producing manufacturing documentation, route cards, work packs and production instructions.
- Experience using production data to assess performance and support reliable estimating.
- Understanding of production planning, labour allocation, material control, subcontract management and manufacturing data requirements.
- Awareness of relevant health, safety, quality and procedural requirements applicable to steel fabrication and manufacturing operations.
- Competent user of Microsoft Office and 2D CAD software.
Why Join Us?
This is an opportunity to:
- Contribute to a diverse portfolio of bridge structures, footbridges, lift shafts and heavy steel fabrication projects.
- Join a highly skilled and collaborative engineering team.
Benefits
- Competitive salary.
- Company pension scheme with employer contributions.
- 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing with service.
- Health cash plan and employee rewards through Medicash.
- Career progression opportunities.
- Employee wellbeing support.
- Free on-site parking.
- Secure, long-term employment within a growing business.
If you are an experienced Production Engineer with a background in fabrication, welding or heavy engineering, and you want to make a measurable impact in a busy heavy steel manufacturing environment, we would like to hear from you.
Apply today and help deliver some of the UK’s most challenging fabricated steel structures from our Barnsley facility.
The Company
Why AmcoGiffen?
You will be joining a reputable and firmly established, engineering contractor operating nationally in rail, civils and engineering markets. AmcoGiffen are renowned in the market as a specialist civil, building, mechanical and electrical renewals and maintenance business with ongoing and successful projects and frameworks across the country, you will become part of our expert outfit.
AmcoGiffen has a wealth of experience working on sensitive, live assets in highly regulated environments, we deliver exceptional peace of mind for our customers, creating and maintaining assets across a growing range of high-quality public and private sectors. These include rail, power generation, electricity distribution, flood defence, aviation, waterways and much more.
Diversity & Inclusion at AmcoGiffen
We value collective expertise, but also the spark that one person can bring. As one of us, you can be you, because your individuality is an asset to our business and the communities in which we work and represent.
We are working hard as part of the civil engineering and construction industry, to improve diversity & inclusion. Our Diversity and inclusion journey at AmcoGiffen, is constantly evolving and is designed to break down barriers and promote the principles of a diverse workforce through multiple channels. This includes delivering training, raising awareness, regular forums and sharing our engagement calendar of activities and events to encourage participation at all levels throughout our organisation.
Diversity & Inclusion is embodied throughout our SPIRIT core Business values and lies at the heart of our culture of Safety, Professionalism, Innovation, Respect, Integrity and Teamwork.
AmcoGiffen is an Equal Opportunities Employer, offering challenging, worthwhile careers to everyone and is pro-actively committed to improving our understanding year on year to foster a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees as well as for the customers and communities in which we serve and operate within. It doesn’t matter to us what your age, disability, employment status, gender, health, marital status, sexual preference, membership or non-membership of a trade union, nationality, race, religion or social class are, or indeed any other personal characteristics not directly related to the relevant job. Anyone who meets the requirements of the job is eligible for employment with AmcoGiffen.
Health & Wellbeing
Operating from a people first perspective we support safety and wellbeing in the workplace as a priority. We have large number of colleagues that are trained and qualified mental health first aiders to support and listen where appropriate. We enrol all of the AmcoGiffen family onto an employee assistance programme which provides 24 hour, 7 days a week counselling and advice services.
Is AmcoGiffen your next career challenge? If so, apply now!
For more information or to arrange a private and confidential discussion about AmcoGiffen career opportunities, please contact our Recruitment Team:
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