Brad Harrison

Brad is a Red Seal Journeyman Welder with his Level A Welder Certification. He has also been in the fabrication business since 1996. While training at NIC Campbell River, he was given the opportunity to instruct as well and has never looked back. Brad’s diverse background includes Heavy Equipment Fabrication, Mining, Logging, Fisheries, Petrol plant work, Pressure Vessel, processing plants specializing in alloy’s and food grade materials along with Race Car Fabrication. Brad was responsible for designing and instructing the NIC Intro to Welding courses for the general public from Campbell River to Port Hardy until 2010. Brad has also owned a small off road/race fabrication shop since 1996 and enjoys the satisfaction of design, fabrication and racing of his own creations over the years. He discovered early on that teaching was his passion and has enjoyed passing on the knowledge to the next generation of Welder/Fabricators at NIC and VIU since 2007. Brad would like to acknowledge all of his mentors and co-workers who have been with him on his amazing journey and he looks forward to many more years to come. Brad has been with VIU at Cowichan and Nanaimo campuses since 2015.