Certificate III in Engineering - Fabrication Trade

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Fee type for this course: Full fee

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Overview

Overview

Gain practical skills for engineering trades career specialising in welding and boilermaking, with a Certificate III in Engineering - Fabrication Trade MEM31922 from Victoria University.

This apprenticeship course is designed for people currently working as apprentices in the engineering fabrication trade. It ensures you gain a formal, recognised qualification needed for industry roles. Through classroom learning and work-based tasks, you will gain skills and knowledge to complement your on-the-job training.

You’ll learn to make and repair steel and other metal products and structures such as boilers and storage tanks, and develop industry-specific skills including:

  • arc welding
  • metal fabrication
  • forming and shaping techniques
  • forging and founding
  • structural steel erection
  • electroplating
  • metal spinning and polishing
  • sheet metal work
  • mechanical and thermal cutting.

You'll learn broad engineering skills such as planning, measurement, marking out, computing and computer-aided drafting (CAD). This engineering course also teaches you occupational health and safety principles, and how to follow workplace safety regulations.

You will graduate with the skills, confidence and experience to work in metal engineering and manufacturing, and related industries.

Entry requirements

When assessing your application, we consider your educational achievements and work experience, as well as your skills and personal attributes (where relevant).

Applicants for this course will need to meet the entry criteria outlined below. If you don’t meet the entry criteria, you may be able to gain entry by first completing a related course or unit(s). We call this a ‘pathway’.

You may also be eligible for course ‘credits’, where you are granted a unit or units towards your qualification for equivalent previous study or work experience, so you can graduate sooner.

Entry criteria

Credit & Entry pathways into this course


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CAREERS

After finishing the course, you could pursue a career as one of the following:

  • fitter and turner (metal)
  • maintenance mechanic
  • mechanical fitter
  • metal fabricator
  • toolmaker
  • welder.