New Zealand Certificate in Construction Trade Skills (Level 3) - Allied Trades
Course details
| NZQF Level | 3 |
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About the course
Overview
*Subject to NZQA approval.
Gain the skills needed to enter work as a labourer or an apprentice.
If you’re new to the trades, then this course is for you. You’ll learn a wide range of introductory skills including carpentry, painting, gib stopping, plumbing, and other construction trades. You’ll learn how to safely use and maintain tools, perform necessary calculations, and how to choose materials to complete projects.
What you will learn
Students will be able to:
- Apply generic construction industry terminology and display job role and inter-relationship knowledge while carrying out allied trades tasks
- Identify and correctly use hand tools and materials to complete familiar tasks in the allied trades
- Carry out assigned project work for allied trades.
- Work safely and in accordance with compliance and regulatory requirements in the construction trades sector.
- Communicate effectively with colleagues and customers within the construction industry.
- Read and use specifications and drawings to complete introductory construction projects.
- Perform introductory applied calculations to complete a range of familiar tasks in the construction sector.
Employment Pathway
After completing this programme, you can go into work as a labourer or take on an apprenticeship in a construction trade with a wide range of practical, transferable skills that will help you get a foot in the door.
With additional training and/or experience you may go on to further roles in the construction industry such as carpenter, joiner, plasterer, painter or roofer.
About the provider
NorthTec is part of Te Pūkenga – New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology (Te Pūkenga). Te Pūkenga brings the Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics (ITPs) and the arranging training activities of certain Industry Training Organisations (ITOs) together to create a national network.
As one national network, Te Pūkenga will provide flexible, career-focused learning that fits around your life – on-the-job, on campus and online. Helping our people, our communities and our workforces grow and thrive together.
NorthTec has campuses and learning centres in Whangarei, Ngāwhā/Kaikohe, Kerikeri, Dargaville and 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.