Welding
Enhance your welding and fabrication skills and master the technical aspects of your mahi while ensuring industry compliance, productivity, quality, and safety in your projects.
Upcoming events…

in person
What Every Engineer Should Know About Welding – Webinar Series
12 part webinar series
Delivered from 25 March to 19 November 2026
This must-attend webinar series offers welding professionals an essential platform to stay informed on the latest developments in welding standards, procedures, and quality management systems. Whether you’re an AS/NZS 2214 Welding Supervisor, Welding Specialist, Engineer, Inspector, or NDT personnel, these sessions provide invaluable professional development to ensure compliance and excellence in your work.
This exam is available to those who have successfully completed the HERA Welding Inspector Level 1 course. It provides you with qualifications of HERA Welding Inspector – steel structures and a HERA certificate of proficiency in visual testing of welded joints to AS/NZS ISO 17637:2019, allowing you to perform the essential duties of a welding inspector within the scope of AS/NZS 5131 Section 7 and Appendix I.

E-LEARN
API 579 Fitness-For-Service Assessment
Course
2 day course
Delivered from 11 March to 12 March 2026
This two-day course, co-hosted by HERA and Sequence Engineering, is designed for inspectors, plant engineers, and engineering managers who need practical skills in assessing pressure vessels, tanks, and piping for continued service. It introduces the API 579-1 / ASME FFS-1 approach and gives you a clear process for evaluating common forms of damage, understanding their significance, and deciding whether equipment should be run, repaired, or replaced. Through case studies and worked examples, you’ll learn how to apply the standard in real situations and gain confidence in making sound integrity decisions.
Led by structural integrity specialist Dr Annette Karstensen.
Registrations are now open!

E-LEARN
AS 2214.1 Welding Supervisor Exam
Online exam – 7 May 2026
Paper A – closed book, supervised: 9am
Paper B – open book: 1pm
This exam is available to those who have successfully completed the HERA Welding Supervisor course. It provides you with either a HERA certificate of attainment for CBIP elevating work platforms inspectors, or a AS/NZS 2214 2214 certificate for HERA Welding Inspector WT1 module candidates (dependant on the papers taken).

IN PERSON
AS 2214.1 Welding Inspector
Tāmaki Mākaurau, Auckland
11 – 15 May 2026, 8.30am – 5pm
This course is designed for those carrying out welding inspection of structural steelwork used in construction, infrastructure, maintenance, bridge building, transport, machinery, and marine industries. It leads to the qualification AS 2214.1:2024 Welding Inspector – Structural Steel, meeting the requirements for inspection personnel performing tasks under AS/NZS 5131 and SFC.
It is especially relevant to independent inspectors, in-house inspectors working to SFC requirements, and those seeking CBIP Certified Welding Inspector certification.
Please note: HERA has discontinued the IIW IWI-B training and replaced it with AS 2214.1:2024.
in person + E-LEARN
AS 2214.1 Welding Inspector Exam
Practical – Tāmaki Mākaurau, Auckland
15 May 2026
Theory – online, supervised
21 May 2026
This exam is available to those who have successfully completed the HERA Welding Inspector Level 1 course. It provides you with qualifications of HERA Welding Inspector – steel structures and a HERA certificate of proficiency in visual testing of welded joints to AS/NZS ISO 17637:2019, allowing you to perform the essential duties of a welding inspector within the scope of AS/NZS 5131 Section 7 and Appendix I.

in person + E-LEARN
AS 2214.1 Welding Supervisor
Tāmaki Mākaurau, Auckland
23 – 27 February 2026
Ōtautahi Mākaurau, Christchurch
2 – 6 March 2026
This course is for those with three years experience in the welding/fabrication industry who want to gain expertise in structural steel welding. Fabricators, leading hands, fabrication supervisors, NDT technicians, welding Inspector trainees, welders moving to a supervisory role, QA managers and technical representatives will benefit from the content.