Apprentice Fabricater and General Welder
CARBONOMICS LIMITED
SHEFFIELD (S26 2BS)
Closes in 22 days (Friday 8 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 15 July 2025
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Summary
Being a successful company in the manufacture of precision engineered blades to a global market and continually growing. This Engineering Operative Apprenticeship opportunity will provide you with a platform to establish a career in manufacturing and learn from skilled engineers within our industry.
- Wage
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£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Welder (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday 7.00am - 3.30pm
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Saturday 9 August 2025
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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1
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
- Preparing and TIG welding of high-quality steel strips in thicknesses of 0.5mm - 2mm
- Flattening the blades and removing distortion
- Self-inspection of blades prior to next operation
- Adhering to Health and Safety requirements and working in a safe manner
- Good housekeeping skills are essential to ensure work is carried out efficiently and safely
- Any other duties as required to assist with the day-to-day running of the business
- Working within the welding department, working from a PC based schedule work list
- This role has a reporting line to 2 Team Leaders, the scale of responsibility may as necessary extend to the Production Manager
Where you'll work
LYNX HOUSE
MANSFIELD ROAD
SHEFFIELD
S26 2BS
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
SHEFFIELD COLLEGE, THE
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
Qualification: L2 General Welder (ARC Processes) Apprenticeship Standard, including any required Functional Skills
Assessments:
- Knowledge Test
- Practical Test and associated oral examination
- Professional Interview
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
English and Maths (grade A*-D/9-3/or equivalent)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
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
Other requirements
You are able to reach site timely for a 7.00 am start?
About this company
From a small, humble family business which began life in 1999, re-grinding machine knives in a workshop near Sheffield. We now operate a large manufacturing facility that enables us to supply precision engineered blades to the major food processing and packaging industries, globally. We supply end users with quality replacement blades, and we proudly partner with and supply major packaging machine OEM's that are global leaders in their field, such as ULMA, Harpak-ULMA, Italian Pack (Yang), Packaging Automation and Ishida.
After this apprenticeship
Further training will be offered as required for the role, and an ongoing role may become available to the right candidate.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SHEFFIELD COLLEGE, THE
Stewart Parsisson
stewart.parsisson@sheffcol.ac.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000331839.
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Closes in 22 days (Friday 8 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
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