Is the Welding Program Right For You?
Is CVTC’s Welding program right for you? Let’s take a look at what you can expect and the opportunities available to you.
You Can Succeed
Do you like working with your hands and take pride in your craftsmanship? Do you like seeing the physical results of your work every day and feel a sense of accomplishment? If so, you fit the profile of someone who succeeds as a welder after training through CVTC’s one-year Welding or two-year Welding Fabrication programs.
Students who succeed in the CVTC welding programs are motivated to learn and improve their welding skills. They are good at hands-on work, but also can handle basic math concepts, have good communications skills, and like to put in a good day’s work.
Opportunities Abound
Welders are in extremely high demand in the Chippewa Valley, with employers in every community anxious to hire welders with a good work ethic.
They know that CVTC welding graduates will have the skills. Students learn gas metal arc welding (GMAW), shielded metal arc welding (SMAW), and gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW). They become familiar with robotic welding, plasma cutting, and oxyacetylene welding and cutting. Students learn to operate a water jet and laser cutting equipment. What welding shops need, CVTC welding students are trained to do.
CVTC welding graduates are hired to work in welding shops and manufacturing facilities throughout the area, or are hired to go on the road to customer locations to do maintenance, repair or construction work. Welders who demonstrate good skills in other areas may advance into engineering, inspection, quality control and management positions.
You'll be in Demand
Local industries love to hire CVTC Welding graduates, and competition between them is fierce.
“We like to hire CVTC Welding graduates because of the level of instruction they receive at CVTC is outstanding,” said John Koenig of Wisconsin Metal Fab. “They join our company with the necessary skills, abilities and knowledge needed as entry level welders. They need very little one-on-one training to get up to speed and become productive team members.”
Entry-level welder is just the beginning for CVTC graduates.
“As they grow within our organization and move from entry level to advanced welder/fitters, their compensation moves accordingly,” Koenig said. “The amount of education and training they receive at CVTC allows them to not only be great welders, but sets them up for great candidates for cross-training in other areas of the shop.”
Ready to Get Started at CVTC? Apply online or call 715-833-6300 with questions.
