Eric Waterfield
About Eric Waterfield...
- Born 23 March 1931, Rotherham Yorkshire, (near Sheffield) England
- 1945, age 14, egan work at Robert Jenkins Boiler and Pressure Vessel Company, Rotherham. "School" one day paid, two evenings a week
- April 1949, Enlisted in army, Royal Engineers, "welding" in addition to military duties,
- Service in Kenya, Egypt, Malta, Australia, (Atomic bomb test 1952) Sudan, Ceylon, Aden. HM Ships (LST'S Narvic and Zebruggie)
- 1954,Tarslag company, fabrication, installation,and welding
- 1956, National Coal Board ,fabricating and repair of deep mine equipment
- Rotherham College of Technology 1957 to 1961, completed advanced levels in welding technology, welding science, welding metallurgy
- British Steel (Park Gate Forge and Rolling mills), maintenance welder, fabricating steel making equipment
- 1965 Leeds, England, Dominion Bridge, to work in their plant in Vancouver BC
- SMAW DP3, DP2, DP1, and GMA DP5OFGW DPW4 and several other tests for TIGW Aluminum, Stainless steel. Low Alloy steel. Pipeline (gas and oil) Alberta B
- Plumbers and pipe fitters union, Rig welder.
- Pipe line, pulp mills, chemical plants, high-rise buildings, oil refineries
- 1972 , Instructing welding in mines pulp mills, Cominco , Aluminum boats and ships, Setting and qualifying procedures for welding aluminum pipe ( PWP13) Instructing Aluminum Pipe, welding to code "ex-ray standard
- 1974 BCVI, alias PVI, now BCIT, welding instructor (Retired from BCIT in 1996)
- Canadian Welding Development Institute exam
- 1996 (post-retirement) part time instructor KwantlenCollege; part-time instructor UFV
- How old am I? Do the math! I am still a paid up member of local 170 Pipe Fitters
