Built by people still doing the work
Duantes Training & Consultancy LLC trains engineers and technicians for ASNT NDT Level III, QA/QC documentation and coating/welding inspection — and inspects for clients in between cohorts, so the examples in class are last month's problems, not a decade-old textbook case.
Inspection is a discipline, not a certificate.
We run small cohorts under instructors who still sign live reports, so every candidate leaves able to defend a call in front of a client, a contractor and a regulator — cohorts capped at 14, so everyone handles the equipment personally.
Why candidates come
Instructors still on live assignments, so the examples in class are last month's problems rather than a decade-old textbook case.
Why clients come back
The same team that trains your staff also inspects your work, which means one standard applied consistently on both sides.
What we will not do
Guarantee a pass, or promise a job. We publish our pass rate and placement figures, and would rather turn a candidate away than sell the wrong course.
Instructors still practising in the field
We inspect for clients, then teach from it
Independent inspection and QA consultancy alongside the training programmes — the same standards, applied on real projects.
Third-party inspection
Independent witness and hold-point attendance at fabrication yards and vendor works, reported in your format within twenty-four hours.
Welding procedure development
Drafting and qualifying WPS and PQR packages to ASME IX, AWS D1.1 and ISO 15614, witnessing coupons through destructive test.
Coating survey & DFT audit
Condition surveys on tanks, structures and buried lines, with holiday testing, adhesion pull-off and a remedial spec you can tender.
NDT subcontract management
Selecting, auditing and supervising NDT subcontractors so technique sheets, certification and coverage match what the contract asked for.
QA systems & ITP design
Building the inspection and test plans, checklists and traceability structure for a project, then training the site team who run them daily.
In-house cohort training
Programmes rewritten around your specification, equipment and recurring non-conformances, delivered at your site over shutdown windows.
Five stages from enquiry to site
Assess
A thirty-minute call to place you honestly: what you've worked on, what the certificate actually requires, and whether the gap is months or years.
Enrol
Cohort dates, payment plan and pre-reading issued in one document. Codes and standards you'll need are provided; you don't buy them separately.
Train
Classroom mornings, practical afternoons. Every candidate handles equipment, writes real reports, and gets them marked back with a red pen.
Certify
Mock examinations under time, then registration and scheduling with the awarding body. Re-sit coaching is included if the first attempt falls short.
Place
CV rewritten to the language contractors screen for, interview rehearsal, and direct introduction to the inspection clients we already work with.
Training or consultancy — tell us which
One team runs both, so whichever you need, you're talking to the people who actually do the work.