Available at: Swinton Campus
Programme Overview: This comprehensive occupational qualification prepares learners to mark off and fabricate structural steel and other metal stock, make or repair metal products and structures including pressure vessels and pipes. Students rotate between college-based learning and industry workplace experience.
Duration: 3 Years | Credits: 395 |SAQA ID: 93626
What You'll Learn
- Pattern and template development processes
- Tools, equipment and machinery maintenance and operation
- Workshop and on-site cutting and welding processes
- Fabrication, assembling and repairing of metal components and structures
- Visualise structures and components and develop templates according to set tolerances
- Accurately manipulate and fabricate profiles using heating and cold bending processes
Minimum Entry Requirements
- NQF Level 1, Grade 09 or equivalent, with Mathematics (the college may recognise RPL against the entry requirements)
- Physical fitness and good hand-eye coordination
- Good mechanical insight
Career Opportunities
- Manufacturing and construction industries
- Pressure vessel and boiler manufacturing
- Mining and industrial maintenance
- Self-employment opportunities
Certification: QCTO Occupational Certificate leading to Trade Certificate upon successful completion of External Integrated Summative Assessment (EISA).
Financial Aid: NSFAS funding available for qualifying students.
Knowledge Modules
- Introduction to Boilermaker Trade
- Boilermaker Tools, Equipment, Machines and Materials
- Fabrication and Pipework
- Assembling and Joining
- Cutting and Welding
- Boilermaker's Drawings
Total number of credits for Knowledge Modules: 85.
Practical Skill Modules
- Visualise structures and components and develop templates according to set tolerances and/or standards whilst applying safety measures
- Maintain and use tools, equipment and machinery
- Weld and gas cut components required for fabrication of a specific task such as metal pipes, construction and fabricated plate work and conduct visual and mechanical inspections for compliance with legal requirements
- Accurately manipulate and fabricate profiles and fabricate metal sections using heating and cold bending processes whilst applying safety measures
- Accurately erect, assemble and repair metal structures whilst applying safety measures
Total number of credits for Practical Skills Modules: 130.
Work Experience Modules
- Pattern and template development processes
- Tools, equipment and machinery maintenance and operation processes
- Workshop or on-site cutting and welding processes
- Fabrication, assembling and repairing of metal components and structures
- Assembling and erecting of structures and components
Total number of credits for Work Experience Modules: 180.
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