The participants bring the following educational and professional background:

• High-School degree in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)
  
  AND
   
• Computer literacy (Word, Excel, Power Point)
  
  AND
   
• Successful passing the Phase 1 - Academic Foundation Program at NITI with a defined level of English, Mathematics and Science.

Only candidates who joined all the term related units with an attendance record of 80% are allowed to participate in the Term Tests.

Term Test 1 comprises Units 1-4
Term Test 2 comprises Units 5-8
Term Test 3 comprises Units 9-12

• Unit competence (formative) is assessed through knowledge (online assessment), performance (practical assessment) or combination consisting of both.
• Term assessment (summative) consisting of a cluster of units always take the form of a combination assessment where both theoretical knowledge and practical application is assessed.
• The acquisition of practical skills in favour of theoretical skills is supported through a ratio weighting of 70:30 in the summative term assessment.

The average of all accumulated Unit results weights 40% of the Final Term result. The Term Test weights 60% of the Final Term result. This system is applied for all three Term Tests.
The end of program summary result is taken from the average of the accumulated 3 (three) Term Final results.

In the examination participants prove their skills and knowledge in the following areas:

• Imperial and metric systems
  Trade maths
  Measuring tools
  Threaded fasteners
• Technical sketching and drawing
  Field sketching
  Drawings and details diagrams   
• Layout, hand tools and bench work
  Tools of the trade
  Introduction to hand tools
  Boiler making tools
  Basic metal work
• Short and plant skills
  Physical and mechanical properties of metals
  Introduction to power tools
• Rigging operations
  Introduction to basic rigging
  Rigging equipment
  Rigging practices
  Ladders and scaffolding
• Fitting symbols and weld joints
  Fitting symbols
  Weld joints, symbols and terms
  Bevelled edges for welding
• Oxyacetylene operations
  Perform oxyacetylene operations
• Introduction to arc welding
  SMAW equipment and set up
  Shielded metal arc electrodes
  Stringer bead and weld positions
  Weld quality
  Pre and post heating of metals
  Weld bead pads
• Fillet welds SMAW
  Fillet weld
  Single run fillet weld
  Multiple run fillet weld
• Groove welds SMAW
  Flat groove weld
  Horizontal groove weld
  Vertical groove weld
  Overhead groove weld
• Welded pipe spools
  Butt weld pipe fabrication
  Open root pipe welds
  Advanced pipe spool fabrications
• Introduction to gas tungsten arc welding
  GTAW equipment and filler metals
  GTAW plate

Detailed Terminal and Enabling objectives are provided in both the outline (terminal) and proposal (enabling) documents provided.
Only successful candidates who have acquired the above listed skills will be eligible to join the next two phases at the clients in-company training premises as they are called “on-the job-training” (Phase 3) and “specialised training” (Phase 4).