Maritime • NAVSEA • DEFENSE Industrial Base

Excellence in Maritime and NAVSEA Solutions

Engineering excellence. Proven experience. Mission-focused results.

Delivering trusted guidance, practical solutions, and proven results for the Maritime, NAVSEA and Defense Industrial Base.

Our Services Welder Training Programs

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NAVSEA Standards

Compliance, quality, qualification, and assurance.

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Training & Certification

Welder, fitter, brazer, and inspector programs.

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Engineering & Solutions

Design, development, and implementation.

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Experience You Can Trust

Decades in Maritime and NAVSEA programs.

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Mission Focused

Results that support readiness.

Core Services

Program development, quality, welding, inspection, and oversight.

Integrated support for suppliers and organizations working toward NAVSEA and Maritime requirements.

Audits & Gap Analysis

Determine compliance and progress toward NAVSEA and Maritime quality-management requirements, standards, codes, and regulations.

Program Development

Build business-ready welding, fabrication, inspection, and supplier programs with implementation support.

Quality Systems

Develop and upgrade QMS controls for purchasing, receiving inspection, traceability, document control, audits, and objective quality evidence.

Welding & Fabrication

WPS and PQR development, welder workmanship programs, special-process controls, and implementation support.

NDT/NDE & Inspection

Inspection personnel training, audits, qualification support, surveillance, and acceptance-criteria implementation.

Project Support

Estimating, sourcing, contracting, purchasing, customer engagement, first-piece, prototype, and supplier oversight.

How We Operate

Start with the required elements

Our initial engagement is a multi-day gap and capability analysis focused on compliance, organizational competence, and progress toward NAVSEA and prime-contractor requirements.

Management alignment is treated as essential. The review includes estimating, purchasing, quality and inspection, engineering, fabrication, shipping and receiving, human resources, training, and qualification.

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Executive Alignment

Confirm ownership, priorities, and management commitment.

Department Review

Assess the functions that produce and preserve objective quality evidence.

Facility Observation

Observe welders and fabricators applying their trades under actual conditions.

Special-Process Review

Examine applicable QMS, procedures, qualifications, records, and live EHS evidence.

Bold Competence

Welder training and qualification for the Maritime industrial base.

Programs are designed for high-school students, apprentices, entry-level welders, experienced tradespeople requiring up-skilling, and personnel transitioning to NAVSEA methods and techniques.

✓NAVSEA standards and quality systems
✓Navy craftsmanship and workmanship
✓Level I and SUBSAFE awareness
✓Marine terminology and engineering basics
✓Qualification through approved PQRs, WPSs, and WPQRs
✓Relationship systems and management of self

Basic Welder/Fabricator

Co-op, pre-apprenticeship, apprenticeship, and entry-level development.

Structural Steel Fabrication

Shipfitter layout, fit-up, fabrication, and workmanship.

Piping Systems

Pipefitter layout, fabrication, welding, and brazing.

Advanced Welder/Brazer

High-pressure plate and pipe, nuclear components, and advanced-process skills.

Up-Skill Training

Focused development for experienced welders requiring enhanced or redirected capability.

Industries We Serve

NAVSEA, Maritime, defense, shipbuilding, manufacturing, and the industrial base.

Shipbuilding & Repair

Surface-ship and submarine industrial-base suppliers, yards, and repair organizations.

Defense Manufacturing

Critical-component manufacturers requiring disciplined special-process controls.

Supplier Development

Organizations entering or expanding within NAVSEA and prime-contractor supply chains.

Workforce Institutions

High schools, colleges, apprenticeships, workforce agencies, and employer academies.

Standards & Technical Framework

Representative standards within the consulting scope.

S9074-AQ-GIB-010/248Welding and brazing procedure and performance qualification

S9074-AR-GIB-010/278Fabrication, welding, and inspection for machinery, piping, and pressure vessels

MIL-STD-1689AFabrication, welding, and inspection of ship structure

T9074-AS-GIB-010/271Nondestructive testing methods

MIL-STD-2035Nondestructive-testing acceptance criteria

NSTM Chapter 074Welding and allied processes

NAVSEA 250-1500Welding standard and nuclear-related requirements

ISO 9001 / AS9100Quality-management-system alignment

Applicable requirements depend on contract, component classification, customer direction, and approved technical documentation.

Doctor of EngineeringCertified Welding Engineer

ASNT Level III NAVSEA ExaminerCertified Welding Inspector

Certified Vocational Education InstructorsService-Disabled Veteran Small Business

Contact

Discuss your program, supplier, workforce, or qualification requirements.

NAVSEA Consulting Services
1929 N. Opdyke Road
Auburn Hills, MI 48326

734-926-9353 / 216-577-2843
Fax: 248-387-2037

[email protected]
www.navseaconsulting.com