Apprentice Welder/ Fabricator

KILNBRIDGE CONSTRUCTION SERVICES LTD.

Northampton (NN3 9ER)

Closes on Thursday 31 July 2025

Posted on 3 June 2025

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Summary

Work as part of the welding team to ensure all projects are completed to a high standard and on time, as well as adhering to all standards internal and external. Contributing to high profile projects all across the UK. this apprenticeship is your stepping stone into the industry and a chance to develop and progress within the industry.

Wage

£20,000 a year

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Training course
Welder (level 2)
Hours
Monday - Friday, 7.30am - 4.00pm

35 hours a week

Start date

Monday 8 September 2025

Duration

1 year 6 months

Positions available

4

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

  • Carrying out of welding of items within the workshop in accordance with Kilnbridge welding procedures
  • Assist welders in setting up and preparing weld surfaces, equipment, and materials as needed
  • Cut and grind metal pieces to fit properly and remove any impurities
  • Clean and maintain welding equipment and tools daily
  • Move materials and equipment to job sites as directed by lead welders
  • Learn and follow safety guidelines and procedures at all times while performing welding tasks
  • Collaborate with other team members to complete projects on time and to performance expectations
  • Attend mandatory safety meetings and training sessions
  • Be a team player, ensuring yourself and everyone around you are working safely and producing high quality work in a timely manner
  • Ensure that all instructions are carried out in a professional manner, in accordance with the Company policies, safe systems of work, factory production control and fabrication tolerance criteria
  • Ensure all equipment is maintained and kept in good working condition
  • Carry out morning checks on your work area and all equipment to ensure it is safe to begin work
  • Ensures that work areas are clean and orderly
  • Ensure that all measuring equipment is kept in calibration

Where you'll work

Kilnbridge Construction
1 Jackdaw Close
Crow Lane Industrial Estate
Northampton
NN3 9ER

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

College or training organisation

NORTHAMPTON COLLEGE

Your training course

Welder (level 2)

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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.
  • 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

Welder Level 2 Apprenticeship Standard:

  • The apprenticeship will take place at our workshop with the apprentice attending Northampton College one day a week
  • The apprenticeship will last for 18 months

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade 4)
  • Maths (grade 4)

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
  • Presentation skills
  • Number skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Team working
  • Initiative

About this company

Kilnbridge is an engineering and construction business. Operating as a turnkey specialist structures contractor, we undertake enabling works, complex structural alterations, civil engineering and infrastructure works, reinforced concrete basements, sub and superstructure frame construction and structural steelwork along with dedicated business units in concrete cutting, passive fire protection and waste management.

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Company benefits

The benefits we offer: - 22 days annual leave - Employee owned business bonus - Cycle to work scheme - Access to discounts website - Access to virtual GP

After this apprenticeship

  • To progress from an apprentice to a fully qualified welder/ fabricator

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

KILNBRIDGE CONSTRUCTION SERVICES LTD.

Darryl Jones

darryl.jones@kilnbridge.com

07970109888

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000323839.

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Closes on Thursday 31 July 2025

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