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, Immigration, 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
1
1
week FREE
HANDS-ON welding training
week additional job related training
1
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
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 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 License
• Fall Arrest
• Workplace Health and Safety
• Soft Skills Training Certificate
• Psychological First Aid
• Emergency First Aid with CPR
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.
• Looking to begin 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
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