SCWTTC Welding Training Courses 

Program Summaries:

Start Your New Career Sooner Than You Think

Southern California Welding Training & Testing Center offers practical, hands-on career training. SCWTTC is a smart choice that could lead you into a career in an exciting field. Our instructors and support team will help you at every step to help you get the training and skills for a long and rewarding career. Let us show you how to get started on an exciting career path today. SCWTTC is located in Oxnard, CA

Certified General Welder

Our Certified General Welder program teaches the technical knowledge and skills needed to excel in various welding and metalwork careers. This comprehensive program covers a range of welding techniques, including Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW), Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW), Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW), Flux Cored Arc Welding (FCAW), and cutting processes.

You’ll also receive instruction in quality assurance and control, print reading, safety protocols, and essential workplace skills. This program provides both formal and self-paced instruction.

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  General Welder Enrollment Process
  General Welder Prerequisites

Combination Welder-Fabricator

Program 2 Description:

This course will prepare students for entry-level employment in different positions such as: multi process welder,(OAW), (GMAW), (GTAW), (FCAW), and (SMAW) processes. In addition, the student will obtain fabrication skills and techniques that will give him the ability to cut, form, tack, and weld various metal shapes and forms, as well as the ability to read and understand welding symbols and blueprints.

Program 2 Mission & Objectives

A comprehensive training program that prepares individuals to enter the workforce, in the metal manufacturing industry. This program prepares individuals for the entry level welder, fabricator to apply technical knowledge and skills to measure, cut, form, and join, metal components. Related technical instruction also includes quality assurance and control, print reading, safety, and workplace etiquette.

Structural Welder

Program 3 Description:

This course will prepare students for entry-level employment in most work environments that involve welding and manufacturing of steel components for construction and erection of metal for building. In addition, the student will obtain fabrication skills and techniques that will give him the ability to cut, form, tack, and weld various metal shapes and forms, as well as the ability to read and understand welding symbols and blueprints.

Program 3 Mission & Objectives

A comprehensive training program that prepares individuals to enter the workforce, in the metal construction and erection of buildings. This program prepares individuals for the entry level construction welder, fabricator to apply technical knowledge and skills to measure, cut, form, and join, metal components commonly used to erect buildings. Related technical instruction also includes quality assurance and control, print reading, safety, and workplace etiquette.

Pipe Welder

Program 4 Description:

This program is designed to instruct students in pipe layout, welding safety, and welding with Shielded Metal Arc Welding process (SMAW), Gas Tungsten Arc Welding Process (GTAW) of pipe to meet ASME (vertical-up) and API (vertical-down) welding codes, and pipeline blueprints.

Program 4 Mission & Objectives

This program prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to join or cut metal pipe. Formal and self-paced instruction includes: Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW); Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW), and thermal cutting pipe. Related technical instruction also includes pipe layout, quality assurance and control, print reading, safety, and workplace skills.

Aerospace Welder

Program 5 Description:

This program is designed to instruct students in Welding, fabricate sheet metal components in the aerospace related industries layout, welding safety, and welding with Gas Tungsten Arc Welding Process, (GTAW) sheet materials and tubing to meet AWS D17.1 and ASME section IX welding code, and related technical drawings and prints.

Program 5 Mission & Objectives

This program prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to join or cut metal various alloys. Formal and self-paced instruction includes: Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW), and plasma arc cutting thin wall tubing and sheet metal Related technical instruction also includes Tight tolerance fit-up, layout, quality assurance and control, print reading, safety, and workplace skills.

Automotive Welder-Fabricator

Program 6 Description:

This program is designed to instruct students in welding, fabricate sheet metal components in the Automotive related industries layout, welding safety, and welding with Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW) and Gas Tungsten Arc welding (GTAW) process, of tubing and sheet metal to meet AWS D17.1 welding code, and related technical drawings and blueprints.

Program 6 Mission & Objectives

This program prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills to do layout cut fitup and weld metal of various alloys. Formal and self-paced instruction includes: Gas Metal Arc Welding Process (GMAW), Gas Tungsten Arc Welding process (GTAW), and plasma arc cutting (PAC) thin wall tubing and sheet metal Related technical instruction also includes Tight tolerance fit-up, layout, quality assurance and control, print reading, safety, and workplace skills.

School Hours

Day session Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Evening session Monday through Thursday from 6:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.


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