Apprentice Welder
SENATOR INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
Blackburn (BB1 5UE)
Closes on Friday 1 August 2025
Posted on 6 June 2025
Contents
Summary
We are currently looking to recruit a Mig/Tig Welding Apprentice to join our team based at our Engineering site at Blackburn. This is a great opportunity to learn a key skill used in the production of metal fabrications in a fast-paced environment, using a wide range of equipment & techniques.
- Wage
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£14,722.50 a year
- Training course
- Welder (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday to Thursday 7.00am - 4.00pm, Fridays 7.00am - 12.45pm
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Sunday 31 January 2027
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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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
- Learn how to set up materials to be cut or joined
- Learn how to follow & understand engineering drawings
- Learn how to work at a high & repeatable standard following all in house QC requisites
- Understand how Health & Safety legislation is compiled within a working context
- Maintain & care for your equipment & PPE
- Maintain a good level of housekeeping
- Any other duties as required
Where you'll work
Premier House
Croft Head Road, Whitebirk Industrial Estate
Blackburn
BB1 5UE
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
TRAINING 2000 LIMITED
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
- Level 2 Qualification in General Welding
- Functional skills in maths and English (if required)
- Training 2000, Blackburn
- Block release
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE or equivalent in:
- English (grade Grade 4 or above)
- Maths (grade Grade 4 or above)
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
- Problem solving skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Genuine interest in Welding
About this company
Global Manufacturer of Office Furniture - The Senator Group is one of the UK’s largest design led manufacturers of contract furniture manufacturing sites and showrooms across the UK (Lancashire, Birmingham, and London); the USA (New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Ohio); and Asia (India, China, Singapore and Hong Kong). Employing 1,200+ staff, we create environments within workplace, education, healthcare and hospitality that engage end users. Working closely with architects, interior designers and client design teams, we use furniture to bring spaces to life. The Senator Group is a design-led business with exceptional manufacturing capability. We design, manufacture and distribute our innovative furniture products across the world. Sustainability is key to everything we do; you’ll be joining a business with ambitious Carbon Net Zero targets, exciting biodiversity projects, and an award winning recycling and remanufacturing division – Sustain. We also have deep rooted connections to the community and work closely with charities, schools, and SMEs in our local area.
Company benefits
Contributory Pension Scheme 24 days’ holiday (plus Bank Holidays) Ongoing Personal Development Personal Company Medical Plan Bright Ideas Scheme Employee of quarter / Year Award Free Life Assurance Family Fun Day Social Events
After this apprenticeship
Welding operative upon completion of the apprenticeship.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SENATOR INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
Amelia Tattersall
recruitment@thesenatorgroup.com
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000324841.
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Closes on Friday 1 August 2025
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