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>> Up next of ATE TV: A look under the hood at the career
of a welding technician.
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Take a look around and you'll see that most
of the physical world involves welding.
It's not just auto manufacturing and ship building.
Welding is a highly technical field that involves lasers,
robotics and computer programming skills.
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>> Welding is virtually in every industry imaginable.
92% of the manufactured goods have a welded component to them:
The automotive industry, ship building, construction industry,
buildings, bridges, roads.
Looking at projected employment through 2019 we actually show
that there's a need for 238,000 people in the welding industry.
Welders, inspectors, technicians, engineers.
>> That's showing the cycles per second
that the weight form is putting out.
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>> Starting out as a welder doesn't mean you always have
to be a welder.
There are a lot of career advancement opportunities
that would allow you to get into more of a management role,
or maybe you aspire to own your own company.
There's a lot of small companies that have a welding focus,
whether it's a distributor, or they're in welding sales,
so there are opportunities to have more of a typical 9
to 5 kind of a job but then there are a lot
of opportunities to be on location.
A lot of welders work project by project,
they may work 60 hours a week for a couple of months
and then they're off where they're back home
with their families until the next project ramps up
and then they're offsite again so there's so many opportunities
for whatever type of lifestyle it is that you're looking for
and it is changing just like many other technologies,
it's not the welding of yesterday.
There is a lot of new advancements in the area
of materials, there's new equipment
in addition to new processes.
It's understanding what makes a good weld and then how
to program perhaps a robot to complete that weld.
A technician in the welding industry today would have a
knowledge of manufacturing processes,
would have an understanding of programmable logic controllers
so they have to have a lot of math and a lot
of science background.
It is not something that we can outsource, it's an industry
and an occupation that's gonna be here for the long term.
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