Industrial

Welding Technician Objectives:

Summit’s Welding Technician program is designed for students interested in learning welding or upgrading their skills in various welding processes. Novice to advanced level students can benefit from our individualized competency based program. Students will learn essential welding skills and safety practices through classroom theory and hands on training. Summit offers basic welding, advanced welding, or the combination of both.

What Will I Learn?

Our Welding Technician program introduces you to a range of subjects and techniques:

• Shielded Metal Arc Welding – Pre Pipe
• Shielded Metal Arc Welding – Structural
• Shielded Metal Arc Welding – Pipe
• Gas Tungsten Arc Welding – Pipe & Tubing 1
• Gas Tungsten Arc Welding – Pipe & Tubing 2
• Blueprint Reading Basic & Advanced
• Gas Metal Arc Welding – Basic
• Oxyacetylene Welding & Cutting
• Shielded Metal Arc Welding
• Flux Cored Arc Welding/ Symbols for Welding
• Gas Metal Arc Welding Advanced/ Pipe

These are just a few of the many skills and course topics you will learn. You will also learn how to apply critical thinking skills to problem solve from day-to-day.

Where Can I Work?

As a welding technician, you can work at metal fabrication sites of any size and for welding and metal working companies. Employers that often have a demand for Welding Technicians include freight and railroad transportation companies, metal fabrication and stamping companies, papermaking machinery, piping system, contractors, construction and landscape maintenance equipment producers as well as companies in the bridge and building construction industry. A wide range of product development companies also need welders for metal fabrication and repair. Welders work in a variety of different areas such as:

• Construction Companies
• Factory Production
• Automotive Industries
• Ironworks Applications
• Trucking and Railroad Industries
• Facility Maintenance and Repair

What Will I Do?

Some of your duties may include:

• Positioning, aligning, fitting and welding units to layout specs
• Moving parts into position manually or with hoists or cranes
• Setting up and operating fabricating machines
• Studying engineering drawings and blue prints to create material requirements and task sequences
• Smoothing edges and fixing taps, tubes and valves
• Preheating metal with torches or furnaces to mold