Certificate III in Engineering - Fabrication Trade - Boilermaking (Apprenticeship)

This apprenticeship course helps you develop specialised boilermaking techniques, such as making and fixing boilers and pressurised storage tanks.
You’ll learn from the best at TAFE Gippsland, gaining the skills and knowledge required for an employment as an engineering tradesperson - fabrication within the metal, engineering, manufacturing and associated industries.

If you’re looking to gain the skills and knowledge required to work in engineering, manufacturing and the associated areas where fabrication work is needed, a Certificate III in Engineering - Fabrication Trade (Apprenticeship) is the perfect platform to get there.
You’ll combine on-the-job learning strategies with formal theory, while also learning about metal fabrication, forging, founding, erecting structural steel, metal spinning, metal polishing, electroplating, sheet metal work, welding, and using specialised computers and equipment.
What’s even better, is if you have prior knowledge of fabrication, you may also achieve your Certificate III through a formal skills recognition assessment process – how good is that?!
And when you finish your Certificate III in Engineering - Fabrication Trade (Apprenticeship), you’ll be able to gain real-world experience and earn a living as a boiler maker/Sheetmetal tradesperson, a certified welder or a welding supervisor and inspector, just to name a few!
You might also like to take your career further by studying a Certificate IV in Engineering to further your skills and increase your employment opportunities in the future. We’ll support you with everything you need to complete that course, if that’s the path you choose.
Again, you must be a in a registered apprenticeship to undertake this course.

The Certificate III in Engineering - Fabrication specifies the competences required for employment as an engineering fabricator heavy stream (boilermaker).

Further training pathways from this qualification include MEM40119 Certificate IV in Engineering and MEM50119 Diploma of Engineering - Advanced Trade or other relevant qualifications

Develop appropriate skills in welding, structural steel heavy and light fabrication and weld to Australian standards AS1796 and AS1554.

Are there specified requirements for entry into the course/qualification?: No

Mandatory entry requirements:

Must be registered with the Australian Apprenticeship Commission. Must be an Australian apprentice.

Recommended entry Requirements:

Cert II Engineering pathways or Engineering VDSS.

Limitations to course Entry:

If aged between 15 and 17 years of age will require a school release form from their school.

Not applicable.

Will this course/qualification or a constituent unit provide a pathway to an industry licence or regulated outcome: No