Plater / Welder
Platers (welders) are responsible for cutting, welding and fashioning steel into parts for machinery, conveyor systems and underground and surface vehicles.The following modules/unit standards are done during training:
Basic Training
- Make a template
- Fabricate a flatbar bracket
- Fabricate a pipe clamp
- Fabricate a cone
- Develop and fabricate an angled cone
- Fabricate a square angle iron frame
- Develop and fabricate and equal pipe T-piece
Advanced Training
- Fabricate a pipe reducer
- Develop an off-set pipe lateral
- Develop a tapering Y-piece
- Develop and fabricate an off-centre chute
- Weld stainless steel
- Weld cold cast iron
- Use TIG welding equipment
- Use MIG welding equipment
- Fabricate a pipe bend
- Examine and repair a chute
- Examine and repair a hopper
- Erect a steel construction
- Service boilers
Final Training
During Final Training, learners receive intensive training to prepare them for the Trade Test. Training during this period includes all modules/unit standards trained in during the Basic, Advanced training phases.
For more information and specific modules/unit standards, please feel free to contact CTC's Mechanical Department.
Any part of the course can also be done as per client specification.