Coordination and concentration are two things you’ll need to be a welder. If you are good with your hands, have good hand-eye coordination and pay attention to detail, this trade is for you.
Your apprenticeship is 3 years. Every year you have an 8-week technical training period and a minimum of 1,560 hours of on-the-job training.
About half of your training will be to improve your practical welding skills. The other half is about shop skills. Your learning space is our applied engineering wing of Lakeland’s [Trades Centre].
Welding uses heat to melt and fuse metals together, or to separate them. You could be working with beams, girders, vessels, piping and other metal parts.
As well, welders make and repair metal parts for construction and manufacturing. You might weld parts, tools, machines and equipment.
