Welding Skills Bootcamp

This 12-week course is aimed at getting adults who are either unemployed or are looking to upskill into more meaningful employment, giving those who run their own businesses another skill to add to their offerings as well as working with employers who want to upskill their existing workforce.

Learning covers the following as well as much more:

• understanding the hazards associated with welding
• demonstrating good workshop practice
• recognising welding symbols and joints and setting these up independently
• producing a T-fillet
• recognising welding defects
• evaluating own welds to BS9606-1
• identifying and changing consumable parts and purging
• how coding welding works in industry
• producing welds to a coding standard
• overhead, vertical and down-hand position welding

MIG or MAG welding is taught with coded welding to a BS9606-1 testing standard. We also give learners the opportunity to gain a CSCS card as part of the course.

• Cost: Free
• Ages: 19+