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Atlantis NDT delivers employer-based NDT training in New York, USA: ASNT Level III-led Level I and Level II courses, examinations and certification records issued under your company's SNT-TC-1A or CP-189 written practice. New York City NDT training for aerospace, manufacturing, and construction industries. Manhattan and tri-state area. Theory is self-paced online with ASNT NDT Level III support, and practicals run in the Practical NDT simulator and in person at your facility — there is no requirement to send technicians to a school.
Two training routes for New York, NY
I'm an individual technician
You want Level I or Level II in one method, or you are preparing for ASNT Level III. Theory is online and primarily self-paced, with access from the moment you enrol; your employer (or the employer you are joining) certifies you under its written practice, and the practical examination is administered by an ASNT Level III on real specimens. Send a course enquiry or read NDT training online first.
I'm training a company team
You need a crew trained, examined and certified to your SNT-TC-1A written practice, onsite at your facility or blended with online theory, with Level III oversight and an audit-ready file. See the SNT-TC-1A certification programme for NDT companies or request a company team training quote. We reply within one business day.
Employer-based certification under SNT-TC-1A
In the United States, NDT personnel are qualified and certified by their employer under a written practice that follows ASNT Recommended Practice SNT-TC-1A, or the ANSI/ASNT CP-189 standard. Atlantis NDT works inside that structure: an ASNT NDT Level III reviews or authors your written practice, delivers the classroom hours SNT-TC-1A recommends for each method and level, administers the general, specific and practical examinations, and signs the certification records your customers and auditors ask to see. See how ASNT certification works and SNT-TC-1A training and certification for employers.
Methods and levels delivered in New York
Level I and Level II courses in ultrasonic testing (UT, including thickness and shear-wave weld examination), phased array UT (PAUT), radiographic testing and film interpretation (RT), magnetic particle testing (MT), liquid penetrant testing (PT), visual testing (VT) and eddy current testing (ET), each built to the SNT-TC-1A training-hour tables and examined against your procedures on your equipment. Level I and Level II classroom hours follow the SNT-TC-1A recommendations for each method; Level III candidates are prepared for the ASNT Basic and Method examinations.
What a New York employer receives
A written practice reviewed or authored to SNT-TC-1A 2024 or CP-189, course records showing the hours delivered per technician, examination papers and graded practicals with the specimens used, a certification record per person per method, and a recertification calendar. The file is prepared to survive a customer audit — the question an auditor asks in New York is not where the technician trained but whether the employer's certification record is complete. Ongoing Level III oversight is available through outsourced ASNT Level III consulting.
Delivery in New York
Self-paced online theory with ASNT NDT Level III support, with practical sessions at your plant, yard or shop on your own equipment; for company teams, on-site training with Atlantis NDT bringing calibration blocks, reference specimens and examination materials. See employer-sponsored NDT training and NDT training across the US.
Talk to an ASNT Level III about training in New York
Send the methods, levels and head-count you need certified and, if you have one, your current written practice. An ASNT NDT Level III will map the training hours and examinations required and return a tailored proposal. Request a training proposal; we reply within one business day.
In more detail
Behind that infrastructure list sits a written practice — the document each employer files under ASNT SNT-TC-1A defining which methods, which levels, and how many experience hours a technician must log before an approving Level III signs off. New York's transit authorities, utilities, and special-inspection agencies reference this document, not a diploma, when qualifying a contractor's crew for site work.
New York's certified-technician demand doesn't come from a single heavy-industry cluster the way a refining or petrochemical corridor does — it comes from an enormous, aging built environment that state and city code force to keep re-examining itself. The city's building code requires special inspections on structural steel connections, and AWS D1.1 — the welding code those inspections run against — calls for ultrasonic testing of welds by personnel qualified against ASNT SNT-TC-1A or an equivalent scheme, not simply a CWI card. Con Edison's gas distribution network, one of the densest in the country, runs its own integrity-management programme under PHMSA's distribution rules, cycling through corrosion-control and direct-assessment inspection work long after any single construction project closes out. The result is a market that rewards technicians who hold current, well-documented certification over one-off training-camp credentials, because the agencies and utilities that hire them are themselves audited on the paperwork behind every technician they send onto a site.
Inside the written practice: what actually governs Level I to III
SNT-TC-1A is a recommended practice, not a mandatory consensus standard, which surprises candidates who assume ASNT itself administers a national exam the way a licensing board would. Instead, each employer writes and maintains its own written practice — a controlled document that adapts SNT-TC-1A's guidelines to the employer's own methods, industry sector, and equipment, and that document, not a generic curriculum, is what actually defines qualification and certification for that employer's technicians. A written practice specifies, at minimum, the education and experience prerequisites for entry at each level, the training syllabus and minimum classroom hours per method, the vision requirements a technician must pass — a near-vision acuity check and, for MT and PT work, a color-contrast check, both required close to annually rather than once at hire — and the structure of the qualifying examination itself, which under SNT-TC-1A is really three examinations in one: a general exam on the fundamentals of the method, a specific exam on the employer's own procedures and equipment, and a practical exam performed on real or representative specimens.
Progression follows the same document. Level I to Level II is not a training-hours milestone alone; SNT-TC-1A ties it to accumulated, supervised on-the-job experience — hours that have to be logged, dated, and signed off by the technician's supervising Level II or Level III before the candidate is even eligible to sit the Level II exam for that method. Level II to Level III raises the bar again: broader cumulative experience, usually measured in years rather than months, a basic examination covering the fundamentals across multiple methods rather than one, and — in a properly run programme — a demonstration that the candidate can actually write and qualify an inspection procedure, not just execute one someone else wrote. That last piece is where a lot of New York technicians stall, because writing a procedure well enough to survive a client or DOB special-inspection audit is a different skill than passing a multiple-choice exam. It's also exactly the gap Atlantis's Level III consulting work is built to close for employers who need a written practice built or audited from scratch rather than borrowed from a template.
Corporate cohorts versus individual enrollment, in practice
The difference is bigger than delivery location. A corporate cohort in New York trains and examines against the client's own written practice and the client's own procedures, which means the certification that comes out the other end is scoped to that employer — the SNT-TC-1A model is explicitly employer-based, so a technician who changes employers is, strictly speaking, re-qualified against the new employer's written practice even when prior training and experience hours carry over. That's precisely why individuals enrolling on their own so often steer toward a central-body scheme instead — ISO 9712, PCN, or ASNT 9712 (formerly ACCP)-style certification issued by a certifying body rather than an employer travels with the technician between jobs, which matters in a market like New York where contractors rotate crews across MTA, Port Authority, and utility work over a career. The tradeoff is real: employer-based routes are usually faster to a first certification; central-body routes cost more up front in time but remove the re-qualification tax every time the technician changes employer. That tradeoff shows up the same way in every regional market Atlantis serves nationally — New York is not unusual in facing it, just unusually exposed to it given how often technicians here move between transit, utility, and marine contractors.
Scheduling and specimens diverge just as much. A corporate cohort gets built around the client's actual access windows — a transit authority's night-possession track outages, a utility's planned turnaround, a shipyard's dry-dock schedule — because that's when the crew is actually free and when practical training on real assets is possible; an individual candidate has none of that leverage and instead enrols year-round, studies theory online and arranges the supervised practical with an employer. Corporate programmes also train on the client's own base-metal and weld coupons pulled from its actual fabrication or maintenance process, so the skill transfers directly to the job rather than to a generic reference specimen set covering the broadest possible code scope. And the paperwork trail differs: a corporate programme hands the employer a complete personnel-qualification package — training logs, OJT sign-offs, exam scripts, current vision-exam certificates — filed in whatever recordkeeping system (often an ERP-tracked module) the employer's own audits expect to see, while an individual walks away with a personal certificate and wallet card that they carry to whichever employer hires them next.
What a New York employer or auditor actually checks before accepting a certification
Competency is rarely what gets a technician turned away at the gate. What actually trips people up in New York is the paperwork behind the card. An auditor — whether that's a client's QA manager, an ISO 9001 assessor, or a jurisdictional inspector — is trained to check a short, specific list: is the certificate current and does its expiry date match; is the near-vision and color-contrast exam within the interval the written practice requires, since a lapsed vision exam quietly invalidates an otherwise-current certification; does the certificate cite a specific written practice document and employer rather than a bare claim of being 'ASNT certified,' which on its own means very little without the underlying document; and are the logged on-the-job experience hours actually signed by a supervising Level II or III rather than self-reported. On welded work, a UT or RT technician's qualification also has to line up with the procedure qualification record and welding procedure specification the joint was made under — a mismatch there is a documentation failure even when the technician's actual skill is fine.
New York layers its own verifiers on top of that generic list. The city's Department of Buildings runs special inspections through DOB-approved special inspection agencies, and those agencies have to demonstrate — as part of keeping their approval — that the personnel they field for structural-steel and welding-related special inspections are actually qualified against a recognized scheme, not just employed. MTA and Port Authority contractor prequalification packages routinely ask bidders to submit personnel qualification records as part of the bid file, before a single technician sets foot on a right-of-way. Boiler and pressure-vessel work adds a further wrinkle particular to the city: New York City runs its own boiler inspection program through the Department of Buildings, separate from the New York State program that covers the rest of the state, and either way repair organizations working to the National Board Inspection Code are expected to retain NDT personnel meeting NBIC-recognized qualification — the same underlying SNT-TC-1A framework, applied through a jurisdictional inspector's lens rather than a private client's. None of these bodies re-teaches the method; they all audit whether the written practice, the hours, and the vision exam are actually on file.
Where New York's harbor, bridges, and buried infrastructure push methods beyond the standard mix
Every regional market has a method mix shaped by its assets, and New York's is shaped less by process plants than by structures that move people and utilities through water and rock. The region's major suspension bridges — spans like the George Washington Bridge and the Verrazzano-Narrows — carry their load on thousands of individual high-strength wires bundled into a wrapped main cable, and the accepted way to check the interior of that cable for broken or corroding wires without fully unwrapping it is magnetic flux leakage testing of the wire rope, often paired with acoustic emission monitoring that listens for the acoustic signature of an individual wire breaking under load. That's a genuinely different skill set from the phased-array-on-piping or MT-during-outage work that dominates a power-generation or refining market, and a technician who only trained on flat-plate and pipe specimens will need dedicated cable-NDE familiarization before that work is credible on a résumé.
The region's tunnels add a second niche. Bored and immersed-tube crossings under the East and Hudson Rivers — the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels, the Hugh Carey Tunnel — need periodic assessment of the tunnel liner and segment joints, where ground-penetrating radar for concrete cover and delamination screening, paired with ultrasonic thickness and corrosion mapping on embedded steel and ventilation-building structural elements, does the work that a straightforward UT-on-plate procedure can't. And underneath the streets, Con Edison and National Grid's buried gas distribution mains sit under an integrity-management obligation that leans on corrosion-focused inspection of aboveground appurtenances and exposed piping — eddy current and magnetic-particle work rather than volumetric UT, because most of the network isn't configured for in-line tools the way a cross-country transmission pipeline is. None of this replaces the core UT/RT/MT/PT/VT/ET curriculum; it's additive scope that a New York-based technician who wants to work the region's actual asset base benefits from layering on top of it.
What exactly is a written practice, and who owns it?
It's a controlled document each employer writes under ASNT SNT-TC-1A, adapting the guideline's recommendations to that employer's methods, industry, and equipment — it sets the entry requirements, training hours, vision-exam interval, and examination structure for every level. The employer owns and maintains it, not the technician, and not ASNT — which is why two technicians with the same certificate title can still face different requirements depending on who employs them.
How many on-the-job experience hours does a Level II technician actually need?
SNT-TC-1A recommends minimum experience hours by method and level rather than fixing a single number, and the totals climb steeply — RT and UT generally carry higher minimums than VT or PT because interpreting a radiograph or an A-scan takes longer to become reliable at. Those hours have to be logged, supervised, and signed off before a candidate is eligible to sit the Level II exam for that method, which is usually the real pacing constraint, not classroom seat time.
Will a New York employer accept an ASNT certification I earned working for a different employer?
Not automatically. SNT-TC-1A certification is employer-based by design, so it's tied to the written practice of the employer who issued it — a new employer is expected to re-qualify you against its own written practice even though your training hours and experience typically carry forward. Central-body schemes like ISO 9712 exist partly to solve this portability problem; see how the certification schemes compare if you're choosing a route for the first time.
What do MTA, Port Authority, or utility QA teams look for in a bid package's NDT personnel section?
Personnel qualification records for every named technician — current certificate with expiry date, the written practice reference it was issued under, logged experience hours with supervisor sign-off, and proof the vision exam is inside its interval. Missing or stale vision-exam documentation is one of the most common reasons a technically qualified crew gets bounced back for corrections before a bid is even scored.
Are there NDT specialties unique to New York's bridges and tunnels that a standard course won't cover?
Yes — wire-rope magnetic flux leakage and acoustic emission monitoring for suspension bridge main cables, ground-penetrating radar and corrosion mapping for tunnel liners and immersed-tube segments, and corrosion-focused eddy current and magnetic-particle work on buried gas-main appurtenances. These sit on top of the core UT/RT/MT/PT/VT/ET curriculum as additive, asset-specific scope rather than replacing it.
National programmes behind this New York, NY page
This page covers NDT training for employers and technicians in New York, NY. The national programmes live on their own pages: NDT training (every method and level, for candidates worldwide), NDT training online, SNT-TC-1A training and certification, SNT-TC-1A certification programme for NDT companies, ASNT Level III training and ASNT Level III consulting. Hours by method and level are in the training requirements matrix; practise on the Practical NDT simulator.
NDT training in New York: how it works for New York employers and technicians
Short answer: NDT training for New York City and the wider state is delivered self-paced online or onsite at your own shop, yard, plant or project site. Atlantis NDT has no New York classroom. An ASNT NDT Level III teaches Level I, II and III courses in UT, PAUT, TOFD, RT, MT, PT, VT and ET based on ASNT SNT-TC-1A, and supports your company's examinations and certification under its own written practice. Cohort and onsite quotes arrive within one business day.
New York is a market where the paperwork is as scrutinised as the technique. A special inspection agency working for a building owner, a contractor bidding a transit or Port Authority package, a boiler repair shop, a fabricator shipping steel into a high-rise, and a utility running its own integrity programme will all ask, sooner or later, to see how your technicians were qualified. Under SNT-TC-1A the honest answer is always the same: training hours, logged experience, general, specific and practical examinations, a vision test, and certification signed by the employer against a written practice.
So when someone searches for NDT classes in New York, what they usually need is one of two things. A company needs a crew qualified to a standard that survives an audit, without losing technicians to a week of travel and without shutting down a job. An individual needs a credible route into a first employer, and a clear picture of which methods that employer uses. We build training around both situations, and we say plainly where our scope ends.
Request a New York training quote with the methods, levels and number of technicians you need.
ASNT Level I, II and III courses available in New York
Courses follow the SNT-TC-1A body of knowledge for each method, with practical exercises steered toward the product forms New York employers actually inspect: structural steel connections and fabricated members, heavy plate and pipe in power and steam systems, marine structure in the harbour, and machined components for the region's precision manufacturers.
| Method | Levels | What New York employers use it for | Prerequisite |
|---|---|---|---|
| UT | I, II, III | Complete-joint-penetration weld examination on structural steel for buildings and transit structures (AWS D1.1), thickness surveys on steam and power piping, bridge weld examination | Level I: written-practice entry rules. Level II: Level I plus documented experience |
| PAUT | II, III | Encoded weld examination on heavy structural and pressure work, corrosion mapping on steam and process piping, replacing RT where the code and owner permit | Conventional UT Level II first |
| TOFD | II, III | Heavy-wall vessel and header welds for power generation and district steam, flaw height sizing | UT Level II |
| RT | I, II, III | Pipe and pressure welds in mechanical contracting and boiler repair, castings, digital radiography on components | Separate state radiation-safety requirements for anyone handling sources |
| MT | I, II | Fillet and partial-penetration welds on structural steel, crane and hoisting components, fatigue-prone bridge details | Written-practice entry rules |
| PT | I, II | Stainless and non-magnetic components, precision machined parts, weld repairs where MT is not possible | Written-practice entry rules |
| VT | I, II | Weld visual on every structural and pressure job, bolted connections, corrosion and coating condition surveys | Written-practice entry rules |
| ET | I, II, III | Heat-exchanger and condenser tubing in power plants and large building chiller plants, surface crack detection on aerospace and precision parts | None; prior UT or MT experience helps |
UT for structural steel. The single biggest source of UT work around New York City is structural: complete-joint-penetration groove welds in moment frames, transfer girders and bridge members, examined to the UT clauses of AWS D1.1 (or AWS D1.5 for bridges). Our UT Level II course for New York cohorts spends real time on AWS-style angle-beam technique, indication rating and the report formats special inspection agencies expect, alongside the ASME Section V techniques used in pressure work. Candidates can check themselves with our UT Level 2 practice questions.
UT and PAUT for steam and power. Manhattan sits on one of the largest district steam systems in the United States, and the region's generating stations, steam plants and large building mechanical rooms produce steady thickness and weld examination work. PAUT courses cover focal laws, encoded scanning, setup verification and data analysis, with corrosion mapping included because a grid of spot readings often misses localised wall loss on steam lines.
RT. Radiography remains standard in boiler and pressure-vessel repair, mechanical contracting on pressure piping and many owner specifications. The course covers exposure geometry, film and digital techniques, image quality indicators and interpretation. In a city this dense, radiography also comes with serious scheduling and exclusion-zone constraints, which is one reason contractors increasingly ask for PAUT alternatives.
MT, PT and VT. These are the first certifications most New York technicians earn, and the ones every structural fabricator and erector relies on. Courses cover yoke technique, field lighting and surface preparation on steel erected at height, penetrant process control in cold weather, and weld profile gauging.
ET. Eddy current courses cover impedance-plane interpretation and probe selection, with the practical steered to tubing (large chiller and condenser bundles are common in the city) or surface-crack work for precision and aerospace parts made on Long Island and upstate.
Level III. Preparation for the ASNT Basic and Method examinations plus procedure writing, delivered self-paced online. See ASNT Level III training.
SNT-TC-1A certification path in New York, step by step
- Written practice in place. Your employer adopts a written practice based on SNT-TC-1A defining training hours, experience, examinations, vision requirements and recertification for each method and level.
- Formal training. You complete the classroom hours the written practice requires, self-paced online, onsite or blended. Use the training-requirements matrix for the SNT-TC-1A recommended figures; your written practice may set higher ones.
- Supervised experience. You log hours doing the method under a certified Level II or III. On a busy New York project this can accumulate quickly; in a quiet shop it can take far longer.
- General examination on method principles, equipment and terminology.
- Specific examination on the employer's procedures, equipment and the codes it works to (AWS D1.1 for a structural fabricator, ASME Section V and the construction code for a pressure contractor, and so on).
- Practical examination on real specimens with known flaws, graded by a Level III or a qualified examiner under one.
- Vision examination: near-vision acuity (at least annually under SNT-TC-1A) and colour-contrast differentiation at the interval the written practice sets.
- Certification signed by the employer's certifying authority.
- Recertification at the interval the written practice sets (SNT-TC-1A recommends a maximum of five years), by re-examination or documented continuing performance.
For the employer-side explanation, see SNT-TC-1A training and certification.
Self-paced online or onsite NDT training for New York crews
New York's geography makes delivery a practical question. A fabricator in the Bronx, an erector working in Hudson Yards, a boiler contractor in Queens and a machine shop in Suffolk County all lose real money when a technician spends a day in transit. Our options:
- Self-paced online. Theory with ASNT NDT Level III support for Level I and II and Level III preparation, taken around shift patterns, including evening sessions where needed. See online NDT training.
- Onsite. An ASNT Level III-led team runs the course and practical examinations at your shop or facility, on your equipment and on specimens that resemble your work. See corporate NDT training.
- Blended. Online theory followed by a concentrated onsite practical and examination block, which suits contractors who cannot pull a crew off active projects.
We plan around New York's own calendar: building-construction schedules that run year-round, planned outages at power and steam plants that tend to fall in the spring and autumn shoulder seasons when demand is lowest, and the winter weather that makes field MT and PT harder. If a project start date or client audit is fixed, we work backward from it. Ask about onsite training for your New York crew.
Practical examinations are always hands-on, on real specimens. We do not run remote practicals.
Where NDT technicians work in New York
Bridges, tunnels, transit and the city's special inspection regime are covered elsewhere on this page. Here is the rest of the picture that shapes which methods and credentials local employers ask for.
Structural steel fabrication and erection. Fabricators in the five boroughs, Long Island, the Hudson Valley and across the river in New Jersey supply steel for towers, hospitals, transit structures and airport projects such as the JFK terminal redevelopment. The inspection code is AWS D1.1 for buildings and AWS D1.5 for bridges, and NDT on those projects is often performed by technicians working for special inspection agencies or fabricators' in-house QC. Many of those employers also ask for AWS CWI for weld inspectors; that is a separate scheme we do not train.
Major transportation construction. Beyond the transit capital programme, the Gateway Hudson Tunnel Project and ongoing airport and bridge rehabilitation keep demand steady for UT, MT and VT on structural steel and for specialised assessments on concrete structures.
Power, steam and utilities. In-city generating stations, the district steam system and the gas and electric utilities need thickness surveys, weld examination on repairs and tube inspection. Pressure work follows ASME Section I, Section VIII and B31.1, with repairs under the National Board Inspection Code. Upstate, New York's nuclear plants near Oswego and Rochester run outages under ASME Section XI, where nuclear UT typically requires performance demonstration qualification on top of SNT-TC-1A training.
Manufacturing and aerospace supply. Long Island has a long aerospace and defence supply base, and upstate New York builds turbines and heavy machinery. Aerospace primes often require NAS 410 qualification from their suppliers, which is a different scheme; industrial manufacturers commonly accept SNT-TC-1A.
Harbour and offshore wind. Ship repair, barge fabrication and the offshore wind staging at the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal bring MT, UT and VT on marine structure, often with classification society (ABS or DNV) requirements on the acceptance side.
Refining and terminals across the harbour. New Jersey's refinery and terminal cluster along the Arthur Kill employs technicians who live in New York, bringing API 510, 570 and 653-driven inspection work. Owners there often ask for API individual certifications for inspectors; the NDT itself is done by method-certified technicians.
Radiography licensing in New York. New York is an NRC Agreement State. Statewide, the New York State Department of Health licenses radioactive material, including sealed sources used in industrial radiography, under 12 NYCRR Part 38; the former Department of Labor program was merged into DOH in 2006. Within the five boroughs, the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's Office of Radiological Health also regulates radioactive materials and radiation equipment. Your radiation safety officer should confirm which agency's licence, reciprocity and notification rules apply to each job, and what radiographer certification the licence requires. None of that is part of SNT-TC-1A RT certification, which covers technique and interpretation; a New York radiographer usually needs both.
What employers ask for. A current method certification and the written practice behind it, training and experience records, a current vision record, site safety training (in New York City, site safety training cards for construction sites), TWIC for port facilities, and for radiography the state or city radiation credentials. For earnings, we point to public sources in our NDT salary guide rather than quoting local figures.
Level III services and written practices for New York NDT companies
Special inspection agencies, fabricators and small NDT contractors in New York are audited from several directions: owners' QA teams, city agencies, prime contractors and ISO 9001 registrars. The most common weak point is not technician skill but the written practice and examination records behind the certifications. We help with:
- Written practice development and review so the document matches the methods you perform and the codes your clients cite. See written practice development.
- Examination administration: general, specific and practical examinations prepared and graded under ASNT Level III oversight, with records organised for audit.
- Procedure writing aligned to AWS D1.1, AWS D1.5, ASME Section V or client specifications, reviewed and approved by a Level III.
- Bid support: getting the personnel-qualification section of a prequalification package complete and consistent.
Background on the framework is on our SNT-TC-1A guidance page. Book a Level III consultation before your next audit or bid.
Practise before the practical exam
The Practical NDT 3D simulator lets trainees practise 12 method families in 12 workplaces, including an NDT lab, a welding workshop, an aircraft hangar, an oil and gas site and a storage tank. New York structural and fabrication trainees usually get most value from the welding workshop; aerospace-supply trainees from the hangar. Use it to rehearse setups, scan coverage and interpretation decisions between classes. It is practice only and does not replace hands-on training, logged experience or the practical examination on real specimens.
Your instructor
Training is led by Anoop Rayavarapu, ASNT NDT Level III and founder of Atlantis NDT, who sets course content, oversees examinations and reviews written practices and procedures for employer clients.
Frequently asked questions about NDT training in New York
How do I get NDT certified in New York?
Work for, or be sponsored by, an employer with an SNT-TC-1A written practice; complete the training hours; log supervised experience; pass the general, specific and practical examinations and a vision test; and your employer certifies you. We provide training, exam preparation and Level III support, online or at your employer's site.
Can I take NDT training online in New York State?
Yes, for the theory portion. Self-paced online modules are available anywhere in the state, from the city to Buffalo. Practical training and the practical examination must be hands-on.
How long does UT Level 2 training take?
It is set by your employer's written practice. SNT-TC-1A recommends minimum training and experience hours for UT Level I and II, and experience is usually the limiting factor. See the training-requirements matrix.
Do I need a license for radiography in New York?
The company needs a radioactive materials licence (or equipment registration) from the relevant state or city agency, and radiographers must meet that licence's certification and training requirements. That is separate from SNT-TC-1A RT certification. Confirm details with the New York State Department of Health or, inside the city, the NYC Office of Radiological Health.
What does NDT training cost in New York?
We do not publish prices. Cost depends on the method, level, group size, online versus onsite delivery and any written-practice or examination support. Send your details and we reply within one business day.
Is ASNT certification recognised by New York employers?
SNT-TC-1A-based certification is the framework most US structural, pressure and utility work references, and it is what AWS D1.1 points to for NDT personnel qualification. Recognition runs through the employer's written practice and records. Some contracts also require AWS CWI, API or NAS 410 credentials, which we do not train.
Is a CWI the same as NDT certification?
No. AWS CWI certifies a welding inspector; it does not qualify someone to perform UT, MT or RT. Many New York special inspectors hold both a CWI and SNT-TC-1A method certifications.
Which method should I learn first to work in New York construction?
VT and MT, then UT. Structural steel is the biggest employer of NDT technicians in the city, and UT on complete-joint-penetration welds is the skill that raises your value most.
Can you train our special inspection agency's technicians onsite?
Yes. We run cohorts at your office or shop, examine under your written practice and hand over audit-ready records.
Do you train for nuclear outage work upstate?
We teach the SNT-TC-1A methods used in outages, including UT and ET. Nuclear utilities add their own access requirements and, for UT, performance demonstration qualification, which is outside our scope.
Does my certification transfer to a new employer?
Not automatically. The new employer reviews your documented training and experience, examines you under its written practice and certifies you.
Do you offer Level III preparation?
Yes, self-paced online. See Level III training and our full training catalogue.
Ask about training for your New York team - we reply within one business day.
Part of NDT training in the USA and the wider NDT training programme at Atlantis NDT.
Practise between sessions
Free practice tests and downloadable question packs show where you stand, and Practical NDT lets you practise scans on a 3D simulator before the practical examination.
Start NDT training any time of year
Enrolment is open throughout the year. Courses are primarily self-paced, so you can join at any time and work through the learning material around your schedule.
- Monthly starts
- Portal access opens the moment you enrol, at any time of year.
- Level III support
- Level III support is available throughout the year for course clarifications. Confirm the contact method and arrangements when you enrol.
- Practical arrangements
- Practicals are done in the Practical NDT simulator and in person at your employer’s facility, on its equipment and parts. Simulator practice supports training; it does not replace supervised experience, the practical examination or employer certification.