Summary
An exciting opportunity to kick start your career with our expanding company. We are currently looking for an additional Welding Apprentice to join our growing team based in Rugby, Warwickshire. The successful applicant will learn welding on a variety of items and will be enrolled on a Level 2 Welding Apprenticeship at Warwickshire College Group.
Wage
£16,536 a year
Training course
Welder (level 2)
Hours
Monday- Thursday 8.00am- 5.00pm (1⁄2 Lunch Break) Friday 8.00am- 2.30pm (1⁄2 Lunch Break)
40 hours a week
Start date
Monday 25 August 2025
Duration
1 year 6 months
Positions available
1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you’ll do at work
Overview of Day-to-Day Duties:
✓ Reading Engineering Drawings
✓ Marking out parts for fabrication
✓ Welding : MIG & TIG
✓ Dressing welds to customer requirements
✓ Liaise with the quality inspector on 1st off and sign offs
✓ Working with sheet metal
✓ Ability to work independently and as part of a team
✓ Flexible in the team to assist with other processes
✓ Candidates must have an existing right to live and work in the UK
✓ Engineering / Industrial / Manufacturing experience preferred but
full training & development given
Training & awareness of other areas of the shopfloor :
Brake Press / Robot Welding / Drill & Tap
Any other shopfloor duties as assigned
Where you’ll work
BUTLERS LEAP INDUSTRIAL ESTATE
RUGBY
CV21 3RQ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
WARWICKSHIRE COLLEGE
Your training course
Welder (level 2)
Equal to GCSE
Course contents
* Apply health and safety procedures including the use of personal protective equipment (PPE).
* Collect and use information - text and data. For example, manufacturer's instructions, manuals, job instructions, drawings and quality control documentation.
* Prepare welding materials and work area: sourcing, checking and protecting.
* Prepare welding machines or equipment and safety protection measures, for example, check calibration and maintenance dates, inspection for cable damage.
* Check and use or operate tools and equipment.
* Set, modify and monitor welding controls, for example, current, arc voltage, wire feed speed, gas flow rates, polarity, mechanised tractor units.
* Identify issues and actions required. Escalate issues or concerns.
* Use manual processes and equipment to remove material before and after welding.
* Weld using processes, for example, tungsten inert gas (TIG), plasma arc welding (PAW), manual metal arc (MMA), metal inert or metal active gas (MIG or MAG), flux cored arc welding (FCAW), submerged arc welding (SAW), tractor-mounted metal inert or metal active gas (MIG or MAG), tractor-mounted flux cored arc welding (FCAW), tractor-mounted or orbital tungsten inert gas (TIG), tractor-mounted or orbital plasma arc welding (PAW).
* Adapt welding technique to weld different material groups, for example, carbon steel, low alloy steel (3-7% alloy content), high alloy ferritic or martensitic steel (>7% alloy content), austenitic stainless steel, duplex stainless steels, nickel and nickel alloys, aluminium and aluminium alloys, titanium and titanium alloys, copper and copper alloys.
* Weld materials in different joint configurations, for example, butt, T-butt, fillet, cladding or buttering.
* Adapt welding techniques to weld materials in different positions, for example, down-hand, horizontal-vertical, horizontal, vertical-up, vertical-down, overhead, inclined.
* Identify surface defects.
* Apply visual inspection, dimensional and alignment checks.
* Restore the work area on completion of the welding activity, for example, clean equipment and machinery, tidy the work area, return excess resources and consumables.
* Communicate verbally with others, for example, internal and external customers, colleagues, supervisors and managers.
* Follow procedures in line with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards and guidance. Segregate resources for re-use, recycling and disposal.
* Follow equity, diversity and inclusion procedures.
* Follow work instructions - verbal or written.
* Apply team working principles.
* Apply health and safety procedures including the use of personal protective equipment (PPE).
* Collect and use information - text and data. For example, manufacturer's instructions, manuals, job instructions, drawings and quality control documentation.
* Prepare welding materials and work area: sourcing, checking and protecting.
* Prepare welding machines or equipment and safety protection measures, for example, check calibration and maintenance dates, inspection for cable damage.
* Check and use or operate tools and equipment.
* Set, modify and monitor welding controls, for example, current, arc voltage, wire feed speed, gas flow rates, polarity, mechanised tractor units.
* Identify issues and actions required. Escalate issues or concerns.
* Use manual processes and equipment to remove material before and after welding.
* Weld using processes, for example, tungsten inert gas (TIG), plasma arc welding (PAW), manual metal arc (MMA), metal inert or metal active gas (MIG or MAG), flux cored arc welding (FCAW), submerged arc welding (SAW), tractor-mounted metal inert or metal active gas (MIG or MAG), tractor-mounted flux cored arc welding (FCAW), tractor-mounted or orbital tungsten inert gas (TIG), tractor-mounted or orbital plasma arc welding (PAW).
* Adapt welding technique to weld different material groups, for example, carbon steel, low alloy steel (3-7% alloy content), high alloy ferritic or martensitic steel (>7% alloy content), austenitic stainless steel, duplex stainless steels, nickel and nickel alloys, aluminium and aluminium alloys, titanium and titanium alloys, copper and copper alloys.
* Weld materials in different joint configurations, for example, butt, T-butt, fillet, cladding or buttering.
* Adapt welding techniques to weld materials in different positions, for example, down-hand, horizontal-vertical, horizontal, vertical-up, vertical-down, overhead, inclined.
* Identify surface defects.
* Apply visual inspection, dimensional and alignment checks.
* Restore the work area on completion of the welding activity, for example, clean equipment and machinery, tidy the work area, return excess resources and consumables.
* Communicate verbally with others, for example, internal and external customers, colleagues, supervisors and managers.
* Follow procedures in line with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards and guidance. Segregate resources for re-use, recycling and disposal.
* Follow equity, diversity and inclusion procedures.
* Follow work instructions - verbal or written.
* Apply team working principles.
Your training plan
● Level 2 Technical Diploma in Manufacturing Engineering
● Welder Qualification (Coding) (ISO 9606-1:2017) for chosen weld type and positions taken for EPA. e.g., 135 MAG, Plate, 6mm, PB position and 141 TIG, Plate, 3mm, PB position
● End Point Assessment
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE or equivalent in:
* Mathematics, English & a Science (grade 4 GCSE's at 3/D or above)
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
* Communication skills
* Attention to detail
* Organisation skills
* Problem solving skills
* Administrative skills
* Number skills
* Analytical skills
* Logical
* Team working
* Creative
* Initiative
* Physical fitness
Other requirements
At our site in Rugby, we have ample car parking space, and the site is nearby to Rugby Railway Station. The post will entail working on the shopfloor.