Welder Apprentice

HENDRY HYDRAULIC LTD

Ashington (NE63 8QW)

Closes in 23 days (Friday 15 August 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 23 July 2025

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Summary

Full weldling Apprenticeship within a busy manufacturing company. Fully supported by the Education Partnership NE.

Wage

£15,704 a year

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Training course
Welder (level 2)
Hours
Monday to Thursday 07.45am – 17.00pm Friday 07.45am – 12.45pm

40 hours a week

Start date

Monday 1 September 2025

Duration

1 year 6 months

Positions available

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

The apprentice will undertake various tasks relating to the manufacture of high quality Hydraulic Cylinders.

This will include but not limited to:

  • Working as a part of a small team, whilst being expected to work under their own initiative as required
  • Interpreting engineering drawings to ensure correct orientation and standards are met
  • Employing various welding skills to ensure completed welds are within standards to be fit for hydraulic pressure
  • Ensure basic housekeeping standards are met
  • Ensuring their work is completed in a timely manner and suitable for purpose
  • Welding together many different component parts to create sub assemblies alongside completed customers’ parts
  • Basic maintenance and housekeeping of the associated welding equipment
  • Using different welding equipment such as a rotator or standalone unit to complete assigned task
  • Any other tasks the senior staff deem necessary to complete the delivery of customers’ requirements

Where you'll work

unit 1 rotrary way
wansbeck business park
Ashington
NE63 8QW

Training

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

Training provider

CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE

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.

Training schedule

  • The qualifications and training delivered will be in line with the standards delivered by the Education Partnership NE. AWS D1.1 Structural Welding
  • Steel Certification: American Welding Society, OR AWS D1.2 Structural Welding Code
  • Aluminium Certification: American Welding Society, OR ASME Section IX, OR ISO 9606 Qualification testing of welder, OR ISO 14732 Welding personnel - Approval of welding operator, OR BS4872 Specification for approval testing of welders when welding procedure approval is not required

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

  • English (grade 4-9)
  • Maths (grade 4-9)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Administrative skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Communication skills
  • Customer care skills
  • IT skills
  • Number skills
  • Organisation skills
  • Problem solving skills

Other requirements

The candidates should ideally have a minimum of 4 GCSE qualifications, which MUST include English and maths Any other qualifications and awards will be considered as part of the minimum.

About this employer

Initially formed as a family company serving the agricultural industry with telescopic cylinders, opportunities were grasped to expand and develop the company into other industries with the introduction of single and double-acting cylinders to the product range. Steady growth over the past five decades has allowed the company to continually invest in the latest high technology CNC machine tools; whilst the introduction of robotics, used in the manufacture of glands nuts, piston heads, the threading of tubes and welding, has enabled the company to produce volume components at competitive prices.

After this apprenticeship

The apprentice will be in full time permanent employment following successful completion of the apprenticeship.

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

CITY OF SUNDERLAND COLLEGE

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000333271.

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Closes in 23 days (Friday 15 August 2025 at 11:59pm)

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