WEC Group Careers & Jobs
With over 850+ staff across Lancashire, Merseyside, Yorkshire and the West Midlands, WEC Group comprises of 15 manufacturing companies specialising in individual areas of engineering & fabrication.
Spanning across 600,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing floorspace, WEC Group is well placed to meet any engineering requirement and provides services across a broad range of industries such as Nuclear, Aerospace, WEC Cooling has manufactured, fabricated and installed vacuum coolers for a variety of uses all over the world since the 1980’s. WEC Cooling works with customers from the initial design stages to the final installation of the cooler.Oil & Gas, Defence, Rail and Marine.
Established for over 40 years, we have grown from a small welding & fabrication shop operating from a makeshift shed in Darwen, Lancashire to one of the largest contract manufacturing companies in Europe – supplying OEMs and small businesses alike.
Apprenticeships are at the heart of our continued growth and success and the WEC Group Training Academy is the only one of its kind in the UK. A member of The AWFTE – (Association of Welding & Fabrication Training & Education) and a TWI (The Welding Institute) certified welder training centre, our internal Apprentice Training Academy provide individuals with the skills and qualifications required to carve out a career in Engineering. We offer advanced five year apprenticeships in welding/fabrication, CNC machining and laser cutting/press brake operating and over 150 apprentices have come through the doors of our Academy since 2006.
WEC Fabrication comprises of two divisions, Welding Engineering and m-tec. With over 30 years’ experience, Welding Engineering offers design and fabrication services for metal / alloy products including Stainless Steel Fabrication. m-tec is a specialist architectural metalwork division, and offers specialist design & fabrication services for stainless steel artwork and public regeneration projects.
WEC Rail focuses solely on the design and fabrication of rail Structures such as Signal Gantries, OLE Main Steel & Small Part Steel, and trackside camera mounting structures. We also offer Rolling Stock Metalwork services including EN 15085 accredited Fabrication of Rail components and sub assemblies (Class 1-4). Over the past few years, WEC Rail has experienced a huge increase in demand for its specialist services and now lays claim to many of the rail structures across England and Wales.
WEC Cooling has manufactured, fabricated and installed vacuum coolers for a variety of uses all over the world since the 1980’s. WEC Cooling works with customers from the initial design stages to the final installation of the cooler.