Program Description A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. The precision work of welders and fabricators holds up bridges and delivers miners safely underground. Gain skills in welding, fabrication, detailing and millwrighting that you can use across the country, from coast to coast, in virtually any industry. The program will get you prepared to meet increasingly complex industry standards through hands-on learning in Loyalist’s newly equipped The Bay of Quinte Skills Centre. You will:
Follow projects from the engineering drawings stage, through cutting and forming processes, to the completion of the job and quality inspection. Create with new and evolving technologies such as CNC press brakes, CNC plasma cutting and 3D designing. Practise welding techniques such as gas metal arc welding, shielded metal arc welding and gas tungsten arc welding. Participate in the Ontario Skills Competition and field trips to the Canadian Manufacturing Technology Show. Expand your theoretical and practical skill set, along with in-depth trade practices and job planning skills, in the two-year diploma program As a welder/fabricator technician, you will find job opportunities in any industry where metal fabrication and maintenance are performed. Your new skills can take you anywhere. You could work in manufacturing, construction, welding or inspection. You could fabricate mining equipment; machinery; pipelines; bridge truss systems; vehicles such as subway cars and fire trucks; or shipbuilding and aerospace.
