Welding Techniques Welding and Fabrication Technician
Available as a one- or two-year program
- Credential
One-year Ontario College Certificate (Techniques)
Two-year Ontario College Diploma (Technician)
- Start Date
September and January entry
- Location
Belleville campus
Find your career
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.
- Fabricate mining equipment; machinery; pipelines; bridge truss systems; vehicles such as subway cars and fire trucks; or shipbuilding and aerospace.
- Average starting salaries range from $40,000 to $44,999*. With experience and government certification, potential earnings increase to $60,000 and more.
- Get an employment edge with certificates you can earn in the program, such as Certified Welder, Structural Steel Plate Fitter, Certified Welding Inspector or Welding Supervisor.
- You could fast track into an apprenticeship.
*Source: Employment Profile Provincial Report, Ministry of Colleges and Universities.
Our grads get great jobs
- Technical Advisor, Voith Hydro Inc.
- Welder, Durose Manufacturing Limited
- Welder/Setter, L-3 Communications
- Welder/Fitter, North American Steel
- Level 2 Welding Inspector, Canadian Welding Bureau
- Thermite Welding, Canadian Pacific Railway
- Production/Welding, Honda Canada
- Welder/Fabricator, Material Handling Systems
- Welder/Fabricator, Timmins Trailers
- Welder/Fabricator, McCloskey International Ltd.
Is it for you?
Welders play an essential role in building and maintaining critical infrastructure. This is a good career for people who:
- Show precision in their work.
- Have solid math skills.
- Take pride in doing things right.
- Would like to master a skill that will be in demand wherever they go.
Experiential learning
Prepare to meet increasingly complex industry standards through hands-on learning in Loyalist’s newly equipped The Bay of Quinte Skills Centre:
- 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.
You can obtain certification with the Canadian Welding Bureau for the following welding certificates in Loyalist’s on-site test centre:
- Gas Metal Arc Welding (G.M.A.W.) Flat Position
- Gas Tungsten Arc Welding Steel (G.T.A.W.) Fillet
- Gas Tungsten Arc Welding Stainless Steel (G.T.A.W.) Fillet
- Gas Tungsten Arc Welding Aluminum (G.T.A.W.) Fillet
- Shielded Metal Arc Welding (S.M.A.W.) Four Positions
- Flux Cored Arc Welding (F.C.A.W.) Flat Position
- Metal Cored Arc Welding (M.C.A.W.) Flat Position
- Welding Inspector Certificate and Welding Supervisor are also offered through the Canadian Welding Bureau Centre for Learning (part of the C.W.B. Group)
Outstanding faculty make the difference
- Learn in bright, well-equipped facilities with dedicated faculty
- Professors include a Red Seal Structural Plate Fitter and proceeding officer with the Canadian Welding Bureau
- Teachers have a vast network of industry contacts to help connect students with jobs