Worthy welding winner
Lewis McLeod of BAE Systems Naval Ships has won the 2014 ESAB Shipweld competition for welding apprentices. At this year’s final – held at BAE Systems’ Govan site over three days – five finalists battled it out to demonstrate their flux cored wire and MMA (SMAW) welding skills across a number of challenging components and in keeping with shipyard training requirements.
Tony Johnson, judge and technical information officer at ESAB, praised all the finalists: “The standards achieved was very high indeed, with little to separate them. Looking at the competition as a whole, year-on-year we have seen a continual improvement in results.”
Lewis McLeod also picked up the Job Knowledge Test Award, an exacting examination of welding technology and application. The Welding Craft Skills runner-up was Stuart Allan of Babcock Marine, Rosyth and the Team Prize went to BAE Systems Naval Ships.
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