Overview
Update Your Skills, Boost Your Career!
Skills2Advance Welding offers FREE training to help you get employed
as a welder.
Women of Steel
The Women of Steel program is delivered in partnership with the CWB Welding Foundation.
Based on the CWB curriculum, the free program combines virtual and hands-on training delivered by instructors from Conestoga College, using their welding shops
At the conclusion of the program, participants are tested by CWB Certification. Those who pass earn a welding certification. This provides an entry-level qualification for a job in the welding trade.
Women Of Steel was created as an opportunity for women to learn welding alongside other women.
Main Benefits
- Receive support and inspiration while taking the program alongside other women
- Daily hands-on welding training with the flat and horizontal positions
- Opportunity to complete a fillet weld challenge to earn a Welding ticket under CSA W47.1
- Daily health and safety training
- Free of cost and includes a training allowance
- Personal Protective Equipment including welding jacket, helmet and welding gloves, and work boots will be provided at no cost
- Lunches provided during first week of training
- support with transportation, work supplies, food costs, mental health, and other needs
- Job search assistance after program completion
- Apprenticeship connections
- Graduate with multiple certifications
- Support from dedicated staff and instructors
- Graduation ceremony
Program Details
Orientation day + 2 weeks training
Friday, August 12, 2022 – Friday, August 26, 2022
Part 1:30 Hours
- Introduction to welding
- Health & safety
- Practical welding training
- Welding simulators
- Hands-on live welding
- Daily welding projects
- Reading welding documents
- Preparing for & taking certification exam
Part 2: 30 Hours
- CPR & First Aid
- Forklift training
- Fall Arrest
- Workplace communication
- Teamwork
- Psychological first aid
- Career guidance
- Workshops on employment standards, healthy living, mental health, COVID-19
Certifications
- Certificate Of Completion
- Fillet Weld Qualification per CSA W47.1
- Forklift License
- Fall Arrest
- Workplace Health and Safety
- Soft Skills Training Certificate
- Psychological First Aid
- Emergency First Aid with CPR
Who’s Eligible
- 16+ years old
- Legally entitled to work in Canada
- Able to attend training locations on specified dates*
- High school completion is not a requirement to register for the Skills2Advance Welding programs
- Able to lift up to 50 lbs.
- Able to crouch, kneel, stoop, bend
- Manual dexterity ability
- Comfortable with basic computer functionality
- Comfortable with basic computer functionality
- Lives in one of the following areas: Brantford, Brant, Norfolk, Haldimand, Six Nations, New Credit, Hamilton, Kitchener, Cambridge, Waterloo and Oxford.
- Looking to begin a career in welding
OR Currently working in a related job and interested in skills upgrading
- Self-identify as female (only for Women of Steel)
* Transportation assistance will be offered to participants on an as needed basis
We have had a lot of interest in the Skills2Advance training and have a limited number of spots to offer. We will only be in contact with you if you are deemed eligible for the program. There are several steps we follow when we begin registrations, and before enrollment can be confirmed. A waitlist opportunity may also be provided, but not guaranteed.
If you have any further questions, call us at 519-756-1116 ext. 223.
Job Type: Full-time
Schedule:
Expected start date: 2022-08-12