Apprentice Welder/Service Engineer
JOHN WINTER & CO LTD
Dudley (DY1 2UF)
Closes in 9 days (Monday 20 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 10 October 2025
Contents
Summary
John Winter are looking for an enthusiastic and committed apprentice to join their Foundry Engineering Team. The apprentice will gain hands-on experience and develop practical skills in welding, fabrication, mechanical maintenance, and service engineering, both in the workshop and on-site at customer locations.
- Wage
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£13,741 to £22,222.20, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
- Training course
- Welder (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, 7.00am - 2.00pm. Flexible times.
35 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 3 November 2025
- Duration
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2 years
- Positions available
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2
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
Daily/Weekly Tasks:
- Correct identification and safe use of welding, fabrication, cutting, and grinding equipment.
- Welding, grinding, fabrication, and sawing/cutting of metals and components.
- Reading and interpreting technical drawings to complete work accurately. Supporting material repairs, refractory brickwork, and component preparation. Foundry Service & Maintenance.
- Assisting in the knock-out and re-lining of furnaces and ladles at customer sites.
- Learning about material selection criteria for different applications.
- Supporting gas commissioning and mechanical maintenance tasks under supervision.
- Assisting with repairs and servicing of foundry equipment. Health, Safety & Compliance.
- Using safe manual handling techniques and operating lifting and handling equipment (such as hoists, slings, and cranes) under supervision.
- Maintaining good personal hygiene and workplace cleanliness.
- Following all health & safety, PPE, and workplace procedures.
- Accurately completing administration, training logs, inspection records, and job sheets.
- Logistics & Operations.
- Receipt, despatch, and packing of materials.
- Supporting use of forklift trucks (FLT) and liftinglhandling equipment once trained and certified.
- Organising and preparing materials for workshop and site-based activities.
- Customer Service & Representation.
- Working flexibly to meet customer requirements, including at customer premises.
- Assisting senior engineers on-site while maintaining professional standards.
- Representing the company positively through respectful behaviour and communication.
Where you'll work
Unit 1
Dormston Trading Estate, Burton Road
Dudley
DY1 2UF
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
IN-COMM TRAINING AND BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED
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
This is a Level 2 Welding Apprenticeship, delivered over a period 2 years.
The apprentice will attend the training centre, In-Comm Training Services in Aldridge, WS9 8UG or In-Comm Training Services in Telford, TF3 3AJ, 1 day per week for duration of the apprenticeship.
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Physical fitness
- Flexibility
Other requirements
Must be 18+ for insurance purposes. Will be customer-facing, so smart appearance and well spoken.
About this employer
Founded in the early 1960’s, John Winter still operates on the existing site at Washer Lane in Halifax, where it's Head Office and manufacturing facility are based. Originally, the business was built on supplying small traditional foundries with oil bonded sands and a small range of products for Foundry and Engineering industries. Since then the company has seen many changes, adapting and evolving to meet the ever changing needs of our customers. Move forward some 20 years to the early 1980’s. From humble beginnings the Dental business was also founded, which added a further arm to operations and worked well alongside the Foundry business. The 2 industries share many similarities: mould making and casting technology, not to mention, release agents, resins, alloys and furnaces. Decades later, John Winter are now at the forefront of both of these industries thanks to our own bespoke foundry products, many of which are researched, developed and made on site before being utilised by customers to support a multitude of industries including aerospace and automotive in the UK, as well as the wider global market, for which we have our own dedicated export department. On the Dental side of the business we have gone from strength to strength, forging great partnerships with industry leading suppliers which enable us to service traditional methods of Dental manufacturing as well as maintaining our position at the forefront of the ever evolving digital dental market.
After this apprenticeship
There will be a full-time position available upon completion of the apprenticeship.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
IN-COMM TRAINING AND BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED
Aimee
aimeen@in-comm.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000346076.
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Closes in 9 days (Monday 20 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
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