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Job Description
Industrial welders or maintenance welders join metal components of products, such as automobiles, boilers, ships, aircraft and mobile homes. They accomplish this with specified layouts, blueprints, diagrams, work orders, welding procedures or oral instructions, using electric arc-welding equipment. Welders connect cables from welding units to obtain amperage, voltage, slope and pulse. They may clean or degrease weld joints or work pieces, repair broken or cracked parts, fill holes and operate other machine shop equipment to prepare components for welding.
Working Conditions
Working conditions may vary depending on whether the work is indoors or outdoors. Welders may have to work in cramped spaces.
Wages
Beginning apprentices start at about 75 percent of the journey-level wage. Upon successful completion of required class work and on-the-job hours, wages increase usually every six months until the journey-level rate is achieved.
Length of Apprenticeship
The apprenticeship lasts four years. Apprentices must complete a minimum of 144 related classroom hours per year and 8,000 on-the-job training hours.
Minimum Qualifications
Apprenticeship applicants must be at least 18 years of age. In addition, they must provide proof of high school graduation or general education development (GED) equivalent.
Local apprenticeship committees may require additional qualifications.
This program is currently open only to employees of registered training agents under the local apprenticeship committee´s jurisdiction.
Apprenticeship Committee
Click on the *MA number to see the Standard (*Master Agreement.)
Although the State of Oregon does not have a program exclusively in welding, many occupations require welding as a component.
Go to the Occupational Summaries List.
Go to the Apprenticeship Opportunities Statewide.
Go to the Journey Wage Rates
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