If you want to get into the Automotive & Heavy Equipment Industry and work on big trucks, tractors, cranes or combine harvesters then the New Zealand Certificate in Automotive Engineering (Level 3) Heavy is for you.
This pre-apprenticeship qualification will prepare you for the industry and teach you all the fundamentals that you will need to know through theoretical learning, hands-on practical workshops and work experience placements.
There are different sectors in the Automotive & Heavy Equipment Industry and this course will help you choose an area to focus your career on:
You will learn how to:
Career Opportunities
Graduates of this qualification will have the skills and knowledge to work in an entry level position in the auotomotive industry. This qualification is highly desirable by the industry for people to achieve before continuing on with an automotive apprenticeship.
Why complete a pre-trade course?
When you complete a pre-trade course you receive an industry recognised qualification that sets you on your way to an apprenticeship in your chosen field.
Satisfactory Completion
The student will normally be expected to complete the New Zealand Certificate in Automotive Engineering (Level 3) full time over 34 tutorial weeks or part-time over two years.
To satisfactorily complete the New Zealand Certificate in Automotive Engineering (Level 3), and be awarded this qualification the student must successfully:
Achieve all the graduate outcomes in the graduate profile showing competence to a minimum of 120 credits in accordance with the programme schedule for the New Zealand Certificate in Automotive Engineering (Level 3).
Complete required practical and theoretical course work and assignments.
Complete a minimum of 136 hours of approved work experience
Şubat 2025
Southern Institute of Technology
Invercargill Campus,
133 Tay Street,
INVERCARGILL,
Invercargill Central,
9810, New Zealand
School Leavers
Four years’ minimum secondary education
Attained NCEA Level 2
Desire to work in the automotive industry
Recommended as a co-requisite: Class 1 full driver's licence
Mature Applicants
Applicants over the age of 20 years at time of enrolment will be considered where they can demonstrate the ability to succeed in a programme.
IELTS test - General or Academic score of 5 with no band score lower than 5
TOEFL Paper based test (pBT) - Score of 500 (with an essay score of 4 TWE)
TOEFL Internet based test (iBT) - Score of 35 (with a writing score of 14)
Cambridge English Examination - B2 First or B2 First for schools with a score of 154. No less than 154 in each skill.
OET - Minimum of Grade C or 200 in all sub-tests
NZCEL - a) Expiring Level b) Current: a) Level 3 (General) or (Workplace) b) Level 3 (General)
Pearson Test of English (Academic) - PTE (Academic) score of 36 with no band score lower than 36
Language Cert - B1 Achiever International ESOL Written (LRW) PASS with no less than 25/50 in each skill and Spoken (S) PASS
Trinity ISE - ISE I with no less than distinction in any band
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