Mid Wales welder
Welder coding and NDT services
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Hello all, I hope your all enjoying your weekends. I was just wondering if there are any RWC's or welding coordinators on here that would be kind enough to let me pick their brains about a couple of things?
Background - I am a welder/fabricator working for a small company in mid wales. Because of this CE marking coming into force the company has had to appoint an RWC and because I had the most technical knowledge (being the youngest and left collage only 10years ago, and generally having a passion for welding) the boss decided that I was best suited for this roll. So I got sent on the RWC course last week, even though I did well on the course (got 90% in first paper and 98% in the second) and took an board a lot of information, it was only a two day course and have no experience of this job roll. So I am lacking a bit in confidence and still have a few questions with not really anyone to ask. As we are a small company and don't really do any work that falls under EN 1090 at the moment (the boss wants to have the CE marking as a future proffing aspect) once I have written the pWPS's and got them qualified I won't really have much to do after that, and as there is only myself and one other welder that will be doing CE work I won't even have much inspecting to do. It's just going to be getting from where we are no to the point where everything is set up that's going to be the hard part. So any info and advice I could get would be very much appreciated. The questions I have at the moment are to do with material selection, getting the pWPS's qualified and whether the 5% NDT can be done in house by myself or if this needs to be done externally?
Sorry in advance for such a long post and if this post is not in the relevant place.
Kind regards
Dave.
Background - I am a welder/fabricator working for a small company in mid wales. Because of this CE marking coming into force the company has had to appoint an RWC and because I had the most technical knowledge (being the youngest and left collage only 10years ago, and generally having a passion for welding) the boss decided that I was best suited for this roll. So I got sent on the RWC course last week, even though I did well on the course (got 90% in first paper and 98% in the second) and took an board a lot of information, it was only a two day course and have no experience of this job roll. So I am lacking a bit in confidence and still have a few questions with not really anyone to ask. As we are a small company and don't really do any work that falls under EN 1090 at the moment (the boss wants to have the CE marking as a future proffing aspect) once I have written the pWPS's and got them qualified I won't really have much to do after that, and as there is only myself and one other welder that will be doing CE work I won't even have much inspecting to do. It's just going to be getting from where we are no to the point where everything is set up that's going to be the hard part. So any info and advice I could get would be very much appreciated. The questions I have at the moment are to do with material selection, getting the pWPS's qualified and whether the 5% NDT can be done in house by myself or if this needs to be done externally?
Sorry in advance for such a long post and if this post is not in the relevant place.
Kind regards
Dave.
