New Zealand Certificate in Mechanical Engineering (Level 3)
Course details
| NZQF Level | 3 |
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About the course
Overview
*Subject to NZQA approval.
This hands-on programme covers welding, fabrication, fitting, precision machining for metalwork, and maintenance.
If your interested in a job in mechanical engineering, manufacturing, and fabrication this is the course for you.
Along with the practical skills needed to work in the industry, this course also teaches health and safety, trade theory, and communication skills, giving you everything you need to work in the industry.
What you will learn
At our Future Trades we have three well equipped industrial workshops in which you will learn:
- Steel, stainless steel and aluminium welding
- Steel cutting, forming and pipe bending skills in our fabrication workshop using industrial machinery including a 60-tonne plate bending machine and a guillotine capable of cutting ten millimetre steel
- Skills to design and build a deck or bull bar for a ute or a roll cage for a performance car and many other useful projects
- How to operate industrial size lathes, milling machines and drilling machines to create intricate machinery components accurately to fine tolerances.
Once you’ve gained these skills you will be able to repair, improve and adapt pieces of machinery for manufacturing industries and recreational interests.
Our programme is designed to help you to gain employment in a rewarding and interesting career and also be able to support your hobbies and recreational engineering.
About the provider
NorthTec is the region's largest provider of tertiary education, with multiple campuses and learning centres from Whangārei to our northernmost site in Kaitaia.
We’re transforming lives right here in Te Tai Tokerau, Northland so whether you imagine yourself as a chef, a nurse, or dream of getting a job in a trade, check out our over 100 programmes and enrol now for a brighter future.
Our largest campus is based at Raumanga, Whangārei, with the Future Trades campus in Dyer Street, and a Learning Centre in Kensington Stadium. There are also regional campuses in Ngāwhā and Kaitaia. We also have some online courses, providing education to people across the whole motu. NorthTec works in collaboration with other education providers, industry, iwi, and charitable trusts to provide industry specific,up-to-date training for all Te Tai Tokerau.