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Fabrication & Welding

The UK needs 35,000 welders. We'll help you train yours.

Dedicated welding workshops. Tutors with decades on the shop floor. End-to-end apprenticeship management. Your next coded welder starts here.

The average UK welder is 55. Half the workforce retires by 2027. Apprenticeship starts in welding have dropped 45% since 2015. The pipeline is drying up — act now or recruit internationally.

Why DN Colleges Group

Skilled welders don't come off the shelf. You need a pipeline.

Every fabrication business is fighting for the same shrinking pool of skilled welders. You need a training partner who understands MIG, TIG, MMA, coded work, and structural steel — not a generic provider ticking boxes.

We’ve invested in dedicated welding workshops built to match your shop floor. We recruit the candidates, build the programme around your operations, and manage the entire apprenticeship from day one to sign-off.

95% funded through the Apprenticeship Levy. Levy payers — you're already paying for this. Non-levy — the government covers 95%. Either way, the investment case writes itself.

We manage the full weld run. You get qualified fabricators.

From finding candidates to celebrating their qualification, we handle every stage. You focus on production.

1

Recruit

We advertise, shortlist, and match candidates to your specific needs. Hands-on aptitude assessments — not just CVs and interviews.

2

Design

Your programme is built around your processes — the welding methods you use, the materials you work with, the standards you weld to.

3

Deliver

Industry-experienced welding tutors deliver training in our workshops and on your site. Real welding, real conditions, real standards.

4

Qualify

Ongoing mentoring, progress tracking, and employer liaison. Your apprentice finishes coded, qualified, and productive — not just certificated.

Teaching Quality

Tutors who've held the torch. For decades.

Our welding tutors are time-served fabricators, coded welders, and workshop supervisors who’ve spent careers on production lines, structural projects, and pressure vessel builds. They know what “job-ready” means because they’ve hired people who weren’t.

  • Time-served coded welders and fabrication engineers with decades of industry experience across structural, plate, and pipe disciplines
  • Curriculum shaped by employer feedback — not generic syllabuses. We teach the welding processes, positions, and materials your business actually uses
  • Regular site visits and progress reviews so you always know how your apprentice is tracking — and they know what you expect on the shop floor
  • Direct shop floor experience means our tutors recognise good welds, bad habits, and everything in between — they've been there

Already got a team? Sharpen the edge.

We also upskill and reskill your existing workforce from coded welder assessments to bespoke training delivery. Your workshops or ours.

Welding Upskilling

Move operatives from one process to another, MIG to TIG, carbon steel to stainless, flat to positional. Targeted modules for specific skills gaps.

Reskilling

Transition experienced hands into new roles — manual fabrication to automated processes, production to welding inspection and quality assurance.

Bespoke CPD

Coded welder assessments, welding procedure training, health & safety refreshers. One-day or multi-day sessions at our facility or yours.

See our welding workshops for yourself. That’s all it takes.

Book a walk-through — no obligation, no sales pitch. Just a conversation about your skills challenges and a chance to see where your next coded welder will train.

Contact: Business Development - Fabrication and Welding
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