New Zealand Certificate in Mechanical Engineering (Level 3)
Course details
About the course
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
Based in Hamilton, the Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec), is one of the country’s largest institutes of technology. We deliver high-quality education across vocational (technical) and professional fields of study to approximately 13,000 students, across over 130 different courses.
At Wintec students are educated in a way that builds their confidence and gets them work-ready. We differ from other types of tertiary providers in the way students get the chance to put their theoretical learning into practice from the very start. You will get to work on real-life projects based on relevant topics and themes as if you were in the workplace. You will also get involved in work placements. This means that by the time you graduate, you will be confident in your skills and knowledge, and know-how to apply your learnings. Our academic staff have years of industry experience between them, which means they can guide you on your journey.
Wintec maintains collaborative relationships with local industry and iwi to identify the needs of the region and community. Fostering strong networks that our students and graduates benefit from is a high priority for us. Understanding the needs of local industry, what type of graduates they need now, and what they will need in the future is critical to assisting industry and our graduates.