Automotive

Accelerate your career in the automotive industry!

This qualification will equip participants with the ability to perform a range of tasks relating to servicing and repairing air conditioning components and systems of cars and heavy vehicles in an automotive service and repair business.

Participants will learn how to test and repair basic electric circuits; diagnose, repair, retrofit and modify air conditioning and HVAC systems; carry out diagnostic procedures, as well as a range of other tasks.

This course is available at other campus locations upon request.

Accelerate your career in the automotive industry!

The Certificate II in Automotive Servicing Technology is an entry-level qualification, providing participants with basic electrical and mechanical skills, and the ability to service a car. Throughout this course, participants will learn how to repair engines, transmission and suspension on light vehicles.

Participants will learn how to:

• Monitor environmental and sustainability best practice in an automotive workplace
• Meet workplace OHS requirements
• Identify basic automotive faults
• Use and maintain workplace tools and equipment
• Service final drive assemblies
• Service final drive (driveline)
• Understand job roles and employment in the industry

This course is intended to prepare new employees for the industry, and to recognise and develop existing workers who are performing servicing and maintenance of vehicles in an automotive service or repair business.

This course is available at other campus locations upon request.

 *Available on pre-apprenticeship streams only

Accelerate your career in the automotive industry!

Gain the skills and knowledge to perform a range of tasks related to the servicing of tyres including motorcycles, light vehicles, heavy vehicles, agricultural vehicles, earth moving and off-the-road vehicles in an automotive service and repair business.

This qualification prepares new employees and recognises and develops existing workers who service a range of vehicle tyres in an automotive service or repair business.

This course is available at other campus locations upon request.

Jump start your career in the automotive industry!

This qualification provides an introductory into the automotive retail, service and repair industries. It also acts as entry into further training in several sectors.

Throughout this course, participants will learn how to undertake a range of simple automotive tasks under close supervision.

This course is available at other campus locations upon request.

Accelerate your career in the automotive industry!

Are you considering a career in the automotive industry, but don't know where to start? This qualification provides the perfect introduction!

Participants will learn how to identify and inspect mechanical and electrical components and systems of automotive vehicles and equipment, as well as perform minor maintenance and repair to an automotive vehicle body. This qualification prepares participants to work as a vehicle service assistant or progress into an automotive mechanical apprenticeship.

This course is available at other campus locations upon request.

Interested in a career in the heavy automotive industry?

Undertaken as part of an apprenticeship, this qualification enables participants to become a heavy diesel mechanic, servicing and repairing trucks, buses and earthmoving equipment in the automotive industry.

Throughout this course, participants will apply their practical skills, while gaining an understanding of how to inspect and service engines, test, use and maintain equipment, and diagnose and repair a range of mechanical problems.

This qualification is delivered in blocks, over a period of three years.

Accelerate your career in the automotive industry!

The Certificate III in Light Vehicle Mechanical Technology allows participants to practice as a light vehicle mechanic. Participants will gain the skills to perform a broad range of tasks on a variety of light vehicles.

Participants will gain skills in:

• Electrical and mechanical fundamentals
• Engine, transmission and suspension repair
• Light vehicle servicing

This qualification develops existing workers and prepares new employees for work in the light vehicle servicing and repair industry. Participants can also study this qualification as part of a light vehicle mechanical apprenticeship at North Regional TAFE. 

This course is available at other campus locations upon request.