Introduction

This occupation is found in a wide range of sectors associated with the fabrication, construction, and upgrade of major capital plant items and facilities. The broad purpose of the occupation is to manually weld plate and structural components to high standards of quality. This will involve fabrication, construction, or repair of fabricated plate assemblies, extrusions, and structural components (e.g. channel, h-beams, i-beams etc.) used often to fabricate larger components and assemblies. Plate welders will weld to internationally recognised quality standards using more than one manual arc welding process. For example, a Plate Welder might use a Manual Metal Arc (MMA) and Flux Cored Arc Welding (FCAW) to join both carbon steel and low alloy steel materials.