Welder Foundation

Format: Full Time
Offered: Multiple intakes
Program Duration: 26 weeks
Delivery Location: Kelowna, BC

Program description

This 28-week (840 hour) program takes students with little or no previous experience in the welding trade and supplies them with the necessary skills to seek employment in this industry as an apprentice or foundation welder. The course exposes the students to many aspects of the welding trade with a focus on developing practical skills. Graduates of this program will have technical training for level 1 & 2 and 300 work based hours and have the opportunity to write the Standardized Level Exam at the end of the course.

Admission Requirements

Youth Train in Trades - in grade 12 (all core grad requirements completed apart from CLC A and B, and senior electives)
Minimum English 12 or English First Peoples 12 – 67% plus
Minimum Workplace Mathematics 11 or Foundations of Mathematics 11 or Pre-Calculus 11 – 67% plus
All Core grad requirements completed:
- Senior Grad requirements include: English 12 or English First Peoples 12, English 11, Senior Socials, Senior Math (Workplace mathematics or Foundations or Mathematics 11 or Pre-Calculus 11), and a Senior Science
- All grade 10 grad requirements.