Update Your Skills
Boost Your Career
Skills2Advance Welding offers free training to help you get employed
as a welder.
Get the skills you need
Get the job you want
Skills2Advance Welding
Skills2Advance Welding provides tuition-free welding skills training.
Learn basic welding techniques using a proven training model from the Canadian Welding Bureau (CWB) Welding Foundation. The Foundation has operated successful programs called Women of Steel and Mind Over Metal across Canada for years, helping hundreds of people start new careers in the skilled trades.
Skills2Advance Welding is a partnership between the Workforce Planning Board of Grand Erie, the CWB Welding Foundation and four community colleges that will deliver the training: Six Nations Polytechnic (SNP), Conestoga College, Fanshawe College and Mohawk College.
Training is funded by the Ontario Ministry of Labour, Training and Skills Development.
Graduates of Skills2Advance Welding receive a welding certification from CWB that is recognized by employers. We work with companies and employment agencies to help find graduates jobs.
Welcome
Tour
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week FREE
HANDS-ON welding training
week additional job related training
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See which one of our two programs is right for you
Both programs offer similar training but Women of Steel was created as an opportunity for women to learn welding alongside other women. Mind Over Metal is open to everyone 16 years of age and over.
Benefits
• Free training
• Support with transportation, work supplies, food costs, health & wellness, and other needs
• Skills upgrading
• Job search assistance after program completion
• Apprenticeship connections
• Graduate with multiple certifications
• Support from dedicated staff and instructors
Welders are in demand and there are many advanced welding opportunities to consider once you are a qualified welder!
Advanced Welding Occupations to Strive for:
Program Details
Part 1:
30 Hours
• Introduction to welding
• Health & safety
• Practical welding training
• Welding simulators
• Hands-on live welding
• Daily welding projects
• Reading welding blueprints
• Preparing for & taking certification exam
Part 2:
30 Hours
• CPR & First Aid
• Forklift & Reach Truck training
• Fall Arrest
• Workplace communication
• Teamwork
• Psychological first aid
• Career guidance
• Workshops on employment standards, healthy living, mental health, COVID-19
Certifications
• Certificate Of Completion
• Fillet Weld Qualification per CSA W47.1
• Forklift & Reach Truck License
• Fall Arrest
• Emergency First Aid with CPR
• Workplace Health and Safety
• Soft Skills Training Certificate
• Digital Literacy Certificate
• Psychological First Aid
Who’s Eligible
• 16+ years old
• Legally entitled to work in Canada
• Able to attend training locations on specified dates*
• High school completion is not a requirement to register for the Skills2Advance Welding programs
• Able to lift up to 50 lbs.
• Able to crouch, kneel, stoop, bend
• Manual dexterity ability
• Comfortable with basic computer functionality
• Lives in one of the following areas: Brantford, Brant, Norfolk, Haldimand, Six Nations, New Credit, Hamilton, Kitchener, Cambridge, Waterloo and Oxford.
• Interested in a career in welding OR currently working in a related job and interested in skills upgrading
* Transportation assistance will be offered to participants on an as needed basis
Training Dates
We have had a lot of interest in the Skills2Advance training and have a limited number of spots to offer. Please know that registration is not guaranteed until you have gone through the registration process and have received a confirmation of enrollment.
Six Nations Polytechnic (Brantford)
Women of Steel - Join the Waitlist!
Orientation Day: Friday, September 16, 2022, 9 am – 12 pm
Week 1: Monday, September 19, 2022 – Friday, September 23, 2022, 9 am – 4 pm
Week 2: Monday, September 26, 2022 – Friday, September 30, 2022, 8/9 am – 4/5 pm
Women of Steel - Join the Waitlist!
Orientation Day: Friday, February 3, 2023, 9 am – 12 pm
Week 1: Monday, February 6, 2023 – Friday, February 10, 2023, 9 am – 4 pm
Week 2: Monday, February 13, 2023 – Friday, February 17, 2023, 8/9 am – 4/5 pm
Contact us for more details.
Mohawk College - City School By Mohawk (Hamilton)
Currently, we are no longer taking applicants for Mohawk College classes.
Conestoga College (Cambridge)
Women of Steel - Join the Waitlist!
*Proof of vaccination is required for this training location
Orientation Day: Friday, February 24, 2023, 9 am – 12 pm
Week 1: Monday, February 27, 2023 – Friday, March 3, 2023, 9 am – 4 pm
Week 2: Monday, March 6, 2023 – Friday, March 10, 2023, 9 am – 4/5 pm
Contact us for more details.
Fanshawe College (Simcoe)
Women of Steel - Join the Waitlist!
Orientation Day: Friday, December 16, 2022, 9 am – 12 pm
Week 1: Monday, December 19, 2022 – Friday, December 23, 2022, 9 am – 4 pm
Week 2: Monday, January 2, 2023 – Friday, January 6, 2023, 9 am – 4/5 pm
Mind Over Metal - Join the Waitlist!
Orientation Day: Friday, February 17, 2023, 9 am – 12 pm
Week 1: Tuesday, February 21, 2023 – Friday, February 24, 2023, 8 am – 5 pm
Week 2: Monday, February 27, 2023 – Friday, March 3, 2023, 9 am – 4/5 pm
Contact us for more details.
*Times and dates are subject to change.
