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About the Role
You'll develop the skills, knowledge, and experience needed to become a qualified welder within our manufacturing team. Working alongside experienced colleagues, you'll learn how to fabricate and weld components used in our industry-leading refuse collection vehicles, whilst completing your Level 2 Welder apprenticeship.
Wage
£16,661.84 a year
Hours
Monday to Friday. Shifts to be confirmed. 37 hours a week
Start date
Thursday 1 October 2026
Duration
1 year 6 months
Positions available
4
What You'll Do at Work
- Learning and applying welding techniques on a variety of materials and components.
- Assisting with the fabrication and assembly of vehicle parts and structures.
- Following engineering drawings, build specifications, and work instructions.
- Working alongside skilled welders and fitters to develop your practical skills.
- Carrying out quality checks and taking responsibility for the standard of your work.
- Maintaining a safe, clean, and organised working environment, including the correct use of PPE.
- Supporting continuous improvement activities and working collaboratively with the wider production team.
- Attending college and completing coursework towards the Level 2 Welder apprenticeship standard.
- Preparing for and completing your End Point Assessment, including practical assessments and interviews.
- Building your knowledge across different areas of manufacturing as your skills develop.
Where You'll Work
Heathcote Way
Heathcote Industrial Estate
Warwick
Warwickshire
CV34 6TE
Training Provider
COVENTRY COLLEGE
Training Course
Welder (level 2)
What You'll Learn
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.
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Desirable Qualifications
- GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Number skills
- Logical
- Physical fitness
For over 125 years, Dennis Eagle has been designing and manufacturing industry-leading refuse collection vehicles, helping to create cleaner, safer, and more sustainable communities. Combining trusted expertise with innovative thinking, we develop high-quality waste management solutions and pride ourselves on delivering outstanding support to customers across the UK and around the world.
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You can work as a qualified semi-skilled welder or fabrication assistant in industries like construction, manufacturing, and automotive. You could also progress to a Level 3 Plate Welder apprenticeship or specialise in specific advanced techniques like high-pressure pipe welding.
Contact
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
COVENTRY COLLEGE
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000041449.
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