IWE is the qualified person having the same combined quality of the welding inspector and the welding engineer. An individual employed in this position is considered to possess a prerequisite amount of knowledge, attitude, skills, and habits required to perform tasks autonomously, including the selection, preparation and use of appropriate techniques and equipment, and to apply theoretical knowledge and motor skills with minimum supervision. The IWE is the person with the demonstrated education, experience, and knowledge and who successfully passes the required examinations, shall be considered certified as an IWE - International Welding Expert.
The IWE’s activities begin before production welding, continue through the production process and end when the production process is complete.

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Certification schemes - English

Certification schemes - French

Overview of certification process - English

Overview of certification process - French

Handbook and course material: hard copy (paper)

Required competences: Education and experience requirements

Applicants seeking IWC - IWE certification shall meet the applicable education and experience requirements as stated below:

Required documents to apply

Only Education and experience requirements shall be documented.Candidates shall submit verifiable documentation as below:

• Application as specified in form ref. 222-8-2017003-4
• Two Photo 5 cm x 5 cm with white background
• Employment certificate indicate the numbers of experience years
• Educational diplomas
• Copy of passport or national identification card

The certification programs developed for several years by the various global organizations has not focused the QA/QC Inspection and are limited to auxiliary functions (visual inspection of welding) that disappoint the actual needs of the owners. In this fact the existing Inspection certification programs, give a poor skills level compared to the real inspection activities need.

IWC International Welding Center has developed a training and certification program that combines most of the skills needed to improve the relevance of QA/QC Inspection activity and the efficient resolution of quality problems arising from the activity. In this fact, the holder of IWC-IWI certificate will represent an asset for its employer by ignoring the integration time and the supplementary training. In addition, IWC-IWI is capable to perform the function of purchasing inspector, welding inspector, dimensional inspector, NDE coordinator, welding supervisor, quality assurance and control inspector … that will minimize the cost of inspection and assure the coherence and globality of inspection activities.

With IWC-IWI, the employer will benefit of high skilled person able to control the most recognized standards, detect and distinguish the critical defects before and after manufacturing, analyze and propose solutions for any failure and develop a good brand mark toward the client by its behaviors and communications.

The IWC- IWI International Welding Inspector program was developed to give candidate high performance regarding their added values in the three major phases of construction; study, realization and exploitation. Indeed the program is developed to combines safety, welding, inspection, metal, metallurgy, NDE and destructive examination with existing code, standards and specification, inspection project management, welding management system and failure expertise in current facility by inspection practice of the major industry equipment.

Furthermore and contrariwise of existing programs IWC-IWI program give the candidate the ability to prepare and review all necessary quality documents and records such as quality manual, quality plan, inspection and test plan, Inspection procedure and Inspection record and form.

IWI certification contains three level:

• International Welding Inspector. IWI Level 1
• International Senior Welding Inspector. IWI Level 2
• International Welding Inspection Expert. IWI Level 3

Certification schemes - English

Certification schemes - French

Overview of certification process - English

Overview of certification process - French

IWI– International Welding InspectorLevel I

Handbook and course material: hard copy (paper)

Required competences: Education and experience requirements

Applicants seeking IWC – IWI -1 certification shall meet the applicable education and experience requirements as stated below:

Required documents to apply

Only Education and experience requirements shall be documented.Candidates shall submit verifiable documentation as below:

• Application as specified in form ref. 222-8-2017003-4
• Two Photo 5 cm x 5 cm with white background
• Employment certificate indicate the numbers of experience years
• Educational diplomas
• Copy of passport or national identification card

Handbook and course material: hard copy (paper)

Required competences: Education and experience requirements

Applicants seeking IWC – IWI -2 certification shall meet the applicable education and experience requirements as stated below:

In addition to the requirements of the above table, IWI Level 2 shall have been certified as an IWI Level 1 for a minimum of one (1) year out of the previous three (3) years.

Required documents to apply

Only Education and experience requirements shall be documented.Candidates shall submit verifiable documentation as below:

• Application as specified in form ref. 222-8-2017003-4
• Two Photo 5 cm x 5 cm with white background
• Copy of IWC IWI Level 1certificate
• Employment certificate indicate the numbers of experience years.
• Educational diplomas
• Copy of passport or national identification card

Handbook and course material: hard copy (paper)

Required competences: Education and experience requirements

Applicants seeking IWC – IWI -3 certification shall meet the applicable education and experience requirements as stated below:

In addition to the requirements of the above table, IWI Level 3 shall have been certified as an IWI Level 2 for a minimum of one (1) year out of the previous three (3) years.

Required documents to apply

Only Education and experience requirements shall be documented.Candidates shall submit verifiable documentation as below:

• Application as specified in form ref. 222-8-2017003-4
• Two Photo 5 cm x 5 cm with white background
• Copy of IWC IWI Level 1certificate
• Employment certificate indicate the numbers of experience years.
• Educational diplomas
• Copy of passport or national identification card