 | Welders |
| Experience with robotics may be required. |
| Completion of secondary school is usually required. |
| Completion of a three-year apprenticeship program
or
A combination of over three years of work experience in the trade and some college or industry courses in welding is usually required to be eligible for trade certification. |
| Trade certification is compulsory in Alberta and available, but voluntary, in Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, the Northwest Territories and the Yukon. |
| Interprovincial trade certification (Red Seal) is also available to qualified welders. |
| Welding, brazing and soldering machine operators |
| Some secondary school education is required. |
| Several months of on-the-job training are usually provided. |
| Experience as a machine operator helper may be required. |
| Most recent entrants have a trade/vocational certificate and almost 3 in 10 have a community college diploma. |
