Build what we build.

We’re a British security manufacturer with one factory in Luton. We employ everyone in the Fort Engineering group – fabricators, engineers, finishers, admin, sales. If you want to make things for a living, this is the place.

Fort Engineering manufactures steel security doors, windows, safe rooms, and shopfronts. The factory has been running since 2003. The work hasn’t moved offshore. The person who cuts the steel knows the person who welds it.

All staff in the group sit on a Fort Engineering Ltd contract. If you join Fort Premium’s sales team, Magnificent’s design office, Sash Vault’s surveying side, or the FSDoors trade desk, you’re employed by the manufacturer in Luton. We don’t run separate careers pages on the customer brand sites.

We don’t hire in waves. Most years it’s a handful of roles, occasionally none. This page is honest about what’s open. If nothing fits and you’d still be a good fit, the form at the bottom is the way in – CVs stay on file for twelve months.

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Modern Security Doors Factory Fort Engineering Luton

Factory · Luton, UK

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Open roles

Hiring right now.

Two live vacancies. Permanent, on-site at Luton, full benefits package. Apply through the enquiry form at the bottom of the page or email careers@fortengineering.co.uk directly.

01 / Role

Permanent
Luton, UK

CAD Engineer

Detailed design work for steel security doors, windows, safe rooms, and shopfronts. You’ll work between the customer brands’ commercial teams and the manufacturing floor, turning spec sheets into fabrication-ready drawings that the welders can build from without a back-and-forth.

Solid AutoCAD and SolidWorks. Inventor a plus, not essential
Reading and producing fabrication drawings to LPS 1175 and PAS 24 tolerances
Experience in steel fabrication, fenestration, or doorset design preferred
Comfortable on the factory floor as well as at a screen

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02 / Role

Permanent
Luton, UK

MIG / TIG Welder

Fabricate steel security doors and frames to LPS 1175 and PAS 24 tolerance. Both MIG and TIG required, day to day. Mild steel mainly, stainless on the higher SR ratings. The work is varied – you won’t be welding the same panel for eight hours.

Time-served welder, MIG and TIG both essential
Reading fabrication drawings and working to tolerance
Coded welding tickets a strong plus – we’ll pay for renewals and additional tickets
Sheet metal and box-section work, mild steel and stainless

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Why here

Why work at Fort Engineering.

Four things we’ll say honestly. Read them and decide if any of it lands.

Made in Britain, properly.

One factory. One floor. Steel cut, welded, finished, and tested in the same building it leaves from. No offshore production, no cosmetic UK assembly of imported parts. If you care that the thing you make is actually made where it says it is, this is the place.

People stay.

Median tenure across the factory floor is well over a decade. Once people land here they tend to stay. That’s worth saying because the opposite would be a red flag, and we’re saying it because the numbers hold up.

Training paid for.

LPS 1175 awareness courses, ISO 9001 internal-auditor training, coded welding tickets and renewals, forklift renewals, NEBOSH where it fits the role. If a course makes you better at your job, we pay for it. No pretend “development budget” with strings.

Sensible benefits.

Workplace pension with employer contribution above the statutory minimum. Life insurance. Living Wage commitment across the whole group. 25 days holiday plus bank holidays. Factory-floor safety culture run properly, not as a poster on the wall.

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Get in touch

Send a work enquiry.

Whether there’s a live role above or not, the form is the way in. We read every one. We come back within two weeks, even if it’s a no.

Speculative CVs welcome – kept on file for twelve months
Apprenticeships and work experience handled here too
Recruitment agencies, please tick the box – separate triage
Reply from a real person, not an autoresponder

Prefer email? Send straight to careers@fortengineering.co.uk and skip the form entirely. Same inbox either way.