Fabrication and Welding Engineering - Advanced Apprenticeship - Level 3

This framework will provide the necessary skills for someone to fulfill one of the following roles or similar:

Job Title

Job Role

Sheet Metal

Worker

Use metals/materials up to 3mm thick working from drawings to mark out shapes on the metal before cutting out. Cut, shape and join materials using hand/CNC cutting and pressing machines/thermal cutting equipment, fabricate and assemble pipework.

Plater /

Fabricator

Using metals/materials more than 3 millimetres thick working from

engineering drawings and templates to mark out, cut and shape materials using manual or automated processes including thermal cutting equipment and join materials using fasteners or welding methods.

Welder

Join sections, pipes, tubes or plates together by a manual or automated

process. Plan, implement and monitor welding resources and activities, quality check welds, identify and solve problems. They usually specialise in more than one welding process according to product produced

Functional Skills will be delivered via weekly classes at college, starting in September (unless exempt).

Personal Learning and Thinking Skills delivered in company by the assessor.

ERR will be delivered in company by the assessor.

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