Welding Apprentice

Summary

Midland Tank & Ironplate Co Ltd are looking for a to recruit a positive new member to the team. The apprentice will support the business to achieve its goals and growth for the future. Working with metals to create high-strength welds in 2 welding positions, using at least 1 arc welding process.

Annual wage: £14,601.60 a year
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Training course: Welder (level 2)
Hours: Monday - Thursday 07:00 - 16:00 and Friday 07:00 - 12:00
39 hours a week
Possible start date: Tuesday 3 December
Duration: 1 year 6 months
Positions available: 2

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

The apprentice will be required to complete the following duties:

Working on the shop floor
Setting up lasers to cut blanks
Transfer materials into the fabrication area
Welding components
Forming on CNC press brakes

Where you’ll work

241 Heneage Street

B7 4LY

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

P.T.P. TRAINING LIMITED

Your training course

Welder (level 2)

Equal to GCSE

Course contents

Apply health and safety procedures including the use of personal protective equipment (PPE).

Collect and use information - text and data. For example, manufacturer's instructions, manuals, job instructions, drawings and quality control documentation.

Prepare welding materials and work area: sourcing, checking and protecting.

Prepare welding machines or equipment and safety protection measures, for example, check calibration and maintenance dates, inspection for cable damage.

Check and use or operate tools and equipment.

Set, modify and monitor welding controls, for example, current, arc voltage, wire feed speed, gas flow rates, polarity, mechanised tractor units.

Identify issues and actions required. Escalate issues or concerns.

Use manual processes and equipment to remove material before and after welding.

Weld using processes, for example, tungsten inert gas (TIG), plasma arc welding (PAW), manual metal arc (MMA), metal inert or metal active gas (MIG or MAG), flux cored arc welding (FCAW), submerged arc welding (SAW), tractor-mounted metal inert or metal active gas (MIG or MAG), tractor-mounted flux cored arc welding (FCAW), tractor-mounted or orbital tungsten inert gas (TIG), tractor-mounted or orbital plasma arc welding (PAW).

Adapt welding technique to weld different material groups, for example, carbon steel, low alloy steel (3-7% alloy content), high alloy ferritic or martensitic steel (>7% alloy content), austenitic stainless steel, duplex stainless steels, nickel and nickel alloys, aluminium and aluminium alloys, titanium and titanium alloys, copper and copper alloys.

Weld materials in different joint configurations, for example, butt, T-butt, fillet, cladding or buttering.

Adapt welding techniques to weld materials in different positions, for example, down-hand, horizontal-vertical, horizontal, vertical-up, vertical-down, overhead, inclined.

Identify surface defects.

Apply visual inspection, dimensional and alignment checks.

Restore the work area on completion of the welding activity, for example, clean equipment and machinery, tidy the work area, return excess resources and consumables.

Communicate verbally with others, for example, internal and external customers, colleagues, supervisors and managers.

Follow procedures in line with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards and guidance. Segregate resources for re-use, recycling and disposal.

Follow equity, diversity and inclusion procedures.

Follow work instructions - verbal or written.

Apply team working principles.

Your training plan

General Welder- Fabrication Level 2
Relevant workplace training
Functional skills if necessary

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

English (grade 4)
Maths (grade 4)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Administrative skills
Attention to detail
Communication skills
Customer care skills
Initiative
Logical
Organisation skills
Presentation skills
Problem solving skills
Team working

Other requirements

How will you travel to work? Must be able to travel to the Walsall training centre one day per week

About this company

MTI was founded in 1915 as Midland Tank and Ironplate with the original purpose of constructing water tanks to fit on camel's backs. Founded as a family business, now into the 4th generation, every family member has poured their heart and soul into ensuring that MTI retains the reputation it has built up in almost 100 years. Our experts at MTI are experienced in dealing with virtually every type of fabrication you can think of, when a customer asks us for a quote; we understand immediately what they're looking for. We offer a broad range of skills including laser cutting, punching, bending, welding and machining - because we offer such a complete service, you can be rest assured that your product will be manufactured to the highest standards at every stage.

After this apprenticeship

Possible progression within the company.

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