Melbourne Trade Courses

Carpentry

Certificate III in Carpentry, Certificate IV in Building & Construction, Diploma of Building & Construction

Overview

In this course, you’ll learn how to construct, install, finish and repair structures and fixtures for residential, commercial and industrial developments. You will work with a range of tools, equipment and materials to construct frames for walls and ceilings, construct pitched and advanced roofs and eaves, and erect and dismantle formwork for footings and slabs on the ground. Gain the skills and knowledge required to work as carpenter in the building and construction industry. According to the Australian Government’s Job Outlook service, carpentry skills are in demand with employers finding it hard to fill vacancies for qualified carpenters and joiners. This is a very large occupation with around 69,000 job openings expected over the next five years.

Painting & Decorating

Certificate III in Painting & Decorating, Cert IV in Building & Construction

Overview

This course provides you with hands-on skills and knowledge that enable you to carry out a wide range of tasks in the painting and decorating industry. You will learn practical skills such as preparing surfaces, applying paint by brushes, rollers, and spray guns, hanging wallpaper, and creating feature walls. Moreover, you will learn useful theoretical knowledge, including occupational health and safety requirements, and how to write quotations so you are well prepared to enter the workplace with confidence. By undertaking a Certificate III in Painting and Decorating, you will also learn many general skills and knowledge required for work in the building and construction industry. The course is delivered in a simulated work environment, where you will carry out practical tasks in a workshop area with painting bays: artificial rooms ready to be painted, and spray booths.

Automotive Mechanic

Certificate III in Light Vehicle Mechanical Technology, Certificate IV

Overview

As well as developing the skills to manage a small automotive business, in this course you will discover how to service and repair the mechanical parts of motor vehicles including the engine, transmission (clutch, gear box and differential), and suspension systems (steering, brakes, wheels and tyres).
Successful completion of this course will qualify you to work as an automotive mechanic or light vehicle technician, or in management roles in an automotive retail, service and repair environments.

Diesel Mechanic

Certificate III in Automotive Diesel Engine Technology

Overview

This qualification is essential to become a heavy commercial vehicle technician. Successful completion of this course will allow you to become a qualified tradesperson servicing and repairing trucks, buses, earth-moving equipment, or tractors and other farming machinery. In this course you will apply your practical skills and gain underpinning knowledge of how to diagnose problems, repair and service a range of systems and components of heavy vehicles and equipment. You’ll repair and service engines, transmissions, cooling, steering and suspension systems, electrical circuits and systems, hydraulic and air braking systems, and diesel fuel injection systems. You will also apply your skills and knowledge to complete heavy vehicle safety and roadworthy inspections.

Commercial Cookery

Certificate III in Commercial Cookery, Certificate IV in Commercial Cookery, Diploma of Hospitality

Overview

This course will equip you to work within the kitchen at a supervisory level. You will gain hands-on culinary experience in the preparation of appetisers, salads, stocks, sauces, soups, seafood, meat, poultry, breads, pastries and cakes. Develop your supervisory skills and learn how to manage diversity in the workplace, implement sustainable practices, provide leadership, manage finances, and coordinate cooking operations. You will also get the advanced skills needed to manage a hospitality establishment including rostering, budgeting, marketing, and people management. You will learn customer service skills in our training restaurants, and electives may include how to operate a bar and prepare espresso coffee.
Successful completion of this course will enable you to enter the workforce as a chef or chef de partie, or to work in a management role in a diverse range of hospitality settings

Wall & Floor Tiling

Certificate III in Wall & Floor Tiling, Certificate IV in Building & Construction (Building)

Overview

This qualification provides a trade outcome in wall and floor tiling in the residential and commercial construction industry. This course provides you with hands-on skills and knowledge that enables you to carry out a wide range of tasks in the tiling industry. This specific training and Assessment Strategy is targeted towards learners who are seeking to further their skills and knowledge practical and theoretical aspects of working in the wall and floor Industry. The target audience for this Training and Assessment Strategy are individuals who are working as apprentice tilers or have some relevant work experience within the industry either as a tiler or in the construction industry. This qualification supports the attainment of the skills and knowledge required to work as a tiler. The training and assessment strategy focuses on enhancing an individual’s knowledge required to enter the various roles within the tiling industry such as apprentice tiler, general laborer specific to tiling, consultant, and business owner. This course includes written project assignments, as well as observation of practical tasks. Group tasks or assignments may occur as a type of assessment.

Plastering

Certificate IV in Solid Plastering, Certificate IV in Building & Construction (Building)

Overview

This course covers core skills that are common across the construction industry as well units specific to solid plastering. Experienced professionals will show you how to apply plain, decorative, and protective coverings of plaster or cement to the interior and exterior of structures. You’ll learn how to use solid plastering tools and equipment, install cast plaster and paper-faced cornice, apply trowelled texture coat finishes, and apply, float and render to straight and curved surfaces.