Precision Metal Group Helps Foster Next Generation of Welders

PRECISION METAL GROUP HELPS FOSTER THE NEXT GENERATION OF AUSTRALIAN WELDERS

At LAND FORCES 2021, Precision Metal Group (PMG) presented three students with their armoured welding qualification, ISO 9606 in GMAW. PMG was instrumental in helping train these students.

Both the Hon. Melissa Price MP (Minister for Defence Industry) and Stuart Ayres (Western Sydney Minister for Employment) were on-hand at LAND FORCES to congratulate the three students and PMG.

In 2020, PMG began partnering with Parramatta Marist High School to develop a metals and welding program. The program is fostering STEM skills so that students are better prepared to contribute to Australia’s rapidly growing advanced fabrication and manufacturing industries.

The shared vision is to have more and more students exposed to the industry, and certified as armoured vehicle welders before they graduate from Parramatta Marist, providing them with pathways supported by a skill set in demand by the Australian Defence Force.

According to Jason Elias (Owner, Precision Metal Group), “All types of skills and school graduates are needed to (re-) build the manufacturing base here in Australia.”

Programs like this one are helping to do exactly that. To begin, Year 10 iSTEM students rotate through fortnightly two hour welding core skills workshops, while self-nominated students undertake intensive welding training at Precision Manufacturing Group’s facility in Wetherill Park.

Precision Metal Group has a number of Australian Defence contracts including the assembly and manufacturing of the new Boxer Combat Reconnaissance Vehicle from Rheinmetall Defence Australia.

The Hon Melissa Price MP with some of the students and PMG team members at LAND FORCES.

Stuart Ayres and the students at LAND FORCES.

The students and PMG team members at LAND FORCES.