Courses

After completing a Coxswain External course an AMSA Mandated Practical Assessment (AMPA) will need to be completed to gain a Certificate of Competency from AMSA. To qualify to enrol in this course you must have completed the Coxswain course.

The National Standard for Commercial Vessels (NSCV) Part D—Crew Competencies requires that a seafarer pass this final assessment prior to the issue of a certificate of competency.  The AMSA Mandated Practical Assessment (AMPA) is the practical assessment of your operational skills and knowledge, and knowledge of Australian maritime legislation. 

Refer to the following information for the AMSA Mandated Practical Assessment (AMPA). 

After completing the MEDII External course an AMSA Mandated Practical Assessment (AMPA) will need to be completed to gain a Certificate of Competency from AMSA. To qualify to enrol in this course you must have completed the MEDII course.

The National Standard for Commercial Vessels (NSCV) Part D—Crew Competencies requires that a seafarer pass a final AMPA assessment prior to the issue of a certificate of competency. The AMPA is a practical assessment of o the appropriate operational skills and knowledge, and knowledge of Australian maritime legislation.

Refer to the following information for the AMSA Mandated Practical Assessment (AMPA)(opens in a new tab) . 

This course is delivered over one and a half days.

After completing a Master Under 24 metre course an AMSA Mandated Practical Assessment (AMPA) will need to be completed to gain a Certificate of Competency from AMSA. To qualify to enrol in this course you must have completed the Master Under 24 Metre course.

The National Standard for Commercial Vessels (NSCV) Part D—Crew Competencies requires that a seafarer pass a final assessment prior to the issue of a certificate of competency. 

The AMPA is the practical assessment of the appropriate operational skills and knowledge, and knowledge of Australian maritime legislation. 

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If you enjoy accounting and mathematics, have an analytical mind and would like to work in the accounting profession, then our Advanced Diploma of Accounting is for you.

Gain these skills

• support clients with regular monitoring
• analysis
• preparation of documents
• reports
• accounts
• give financial advice

Our course is developed under the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF), in close consultation with and accredited by the Accounting industry’s professional bodies and has an excellent reputation for quality. You will be well on your way to a role as a registered tax agent or assistant accountant – the ideal start to an exciting accountancy career or an alternate pathway to the Bachelor of Accounting for students who have not completed secondary schooling in Australia.

The units in this course meet the educational eligibility requirements for the following two skills sets with the Tax Practitioners Board: 

• FNSSS00008 Tax Law for Tax Agents Skill Set (Tax documentation) 
• FNSSS00009 Tax Law for Tax Agents Skill Set (Tax Plans)

Satisfactory completion of the Advanced Diploma of Accounting entitles you to join the Institute of Public Accountants (IPA), one of the three peak accounting bodies representing accountants in Australia.

This qualification is also offered part-time. Use the get help form below to start a discussion with our training area.

Acquire the specific accounting techniques that will become the tools of your trade. The Diploma of Accounting will build on your knowledge gained at the Certificate IV level, and will prepare you for accounting positions within larger corporate organisations and growing companies. You will gain a more detailed understanding of day-to-day accounting work through practical training in operational activities.

Completion of the Diploma of Accounting, with passes in prescribed taxation units, satisfies some of the academic requirements for registration as a tax agent with the Tax Practitioners Board (TPB).

Gain these skills

• prepare income tax returns
• manage budgets and forecasts
• prepare financial reports
• implement and maintain internal control procedures
• provide management accounting information

This qualification is also offered part-time. Use the get help form below to start a discussion with our training area.

Are you looking to invest yourself into an accounting or bookkeeping career?

When you complete the Certificate IV in Accounting and Bookkeeping you'll have the foundations for a career in accounting, making you ideal for sub-accountant or bookkeeping roles or as a registered BAS agent (with additional training and experience).

Gain these skills

• prepare financial reports
• accounts and ledgers
• operational budgets
• business activity statements (BAS)
• accounting principles and industry practice

With industry and government forecasting strong demand for accountants in the coming years, you'll be ready for recruiting.

Completion of the Certificate IV in Accounting and Bookkeeping opens up a range of further study options, including specialist diplomas, and it may assist in entry to university.

This qualification is also offered part-time. Use the get help form below to start a discussion with our training area.

Are you looking to invest yourself in a rewarding accounts career?

When you complete the Certificate III in Accounts Administration you'll have skills that employers are looking for, making you ideal for roles in accounts payable and receivable, as a cashier, payroll officer or accounts clerk.

Gain these skills

• knowledge in financial transactions
• accounts and ledgers
• workplace health and safety
• financial reports, and payroll
• You will gain experience in using computerized accounting software including MYOB and XERO.

This qualification is also offered part-time. Use the get help form below to start a discussion with our training area.

Cutting edge hair and makeup skills - a perfect marriage!

This advanced makeup and hair course with a focus on bridal hair and makeup is taught by industry leaders in makeup artistry and hair styling in our state-of-the-art facilities at the Murdoch campus. We use only professional products such as MAC, Kryolan, Crown and Dermalogica skincare. Pick up skills quickly with this intensive 6-week short course.

This course is not offered in Semester 2. 

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At night Murdoch campus has free parking and security is present on the premises.

Want to build on your cosmetic tattooing skills and knowledge? 

Become an advanced cosmetic tattooist with this short course.

Gain these skills

• tattooing corrections with camouflage pigments
• eyebrow – ombre design
• feather touch eyebrow design 
• full lip shading technique 
• advanced eyeliner technique
• colour theory – study of pigments with different fitzpatrick skin types
• learn the history of pigments and safety of pigments
• learn about allergies associated with pigments
• marketing

Become a master of design

Create large-scale floristry designs and work alongside WA's top professional floral designers. Work on large scale designs for some of Perth top events and gain real hands-on experience!  

South Metropolitan Tafe is the only WA floristry training provider in WA who delivers nationally reconsider qualifications in floristry.

This skill set has been designed to enhance the skills of florists already qualified at AWP2 Certificate III in Floristry level or have been working in the industry.

Gain these skills:

• design and construct a range of small to large scale complex contemporary designs
• interpret job specification
• prepare production plans
• large scale event work
• prepare proposals
• implement operational plans 
• manage staging of floral displays

Next dates for delivery

• To be confirmed

Get a handle on advanced mathematics for engineering

The skill set will offer you a unique opportunity to systematically grasp advanced engineering mathematics and numerical methods techniques to innovatively solve engineering tasks.

You will develop analytical problem-solving abilities to carry out engineering design and operations or maintenance activities. It is ideal for those pursuing higher engineering qualifications and careers at para-professional level.

This course is ideal for FIFO workers - talk to us about how you can study this course flexibly.

Gain these skills:

• develop your underpinning core mathematical skills and essential knowledge in technical mathematics/advanced engineering mathematics
• gain advanced engineering abilities to become a qualified engineer
• enhance subsequent education choices to transition into a university engineering qualification and career choices
• develop your analytical problem-solving skills
• identify the key parameters and their effect on system behaviour by solving ordinary differentiation equations (ODEs)
• visual and interactive job-relevant learning experience of calculus and advanced algebra using MATLAB to find analytical/numerical solutions expeditiously
• develop the capability for applying MATLAB as an interactive mathematical analysis tool to support engineering and scientific applications
• apply mathematical modelling using MATLAB/SIMULINK for practical & complex engineering problems
• demonstrate practical applications of the various mathematical concepts and the associated MATLAB operations to various engineering application areas, e.g. thermodynamics; fluid mechanics; probability and statistical analysis in project management and maintenance, etc

2022 Dates

• 19 April to 21 June

This advanced training course is for Masters, Chief Engineers and Chief Mates and provides candidates with the skills and knowledge to meet the relevant AMSA requirements for:

• STCW Reg V/1-1 and Code Section A-V/1-1, paragraph 3, Table A-V/1-1-3 
• STCW Reg V/1-1 and Code Section A-V/1-1, paragraph 2 Table A-V/1-1-2.

This course is approved by AMSA for the issuance of the following certificate upon successful completion of the course:

• Advanced Training for Chemical Tanker Operations  meeting the requirements of STCW Reg V/1-1 and Code Section A-V/1-1, paragraph 3, Table A-V/1-1-3

This course is for Masters, Chief Engineers and Chief Mates and provides you with the skills and knowledge to meet AMSA requirements for STCW Reg V/1-2 and Code Section A-V/1-2, paragraph 2, Table A-V/1-2-1.

his course is approved by AMSA for the issuance of the following certificate upon successful completion of the course:

• Advanced Training for Liquefied Gas Tanker Cargo Operations (AMSA approved), meeting the requirements of STCW Reg V/1-2 and Code Section A-V/1-2, paragraph 2, Table A-V/1-2-1

This course is for Masters, Chief Engineers and Chief Mates and provides candidates with the skills and knowledge to meet AMSA requirements for Table A-V/1-1-3 and STCW Reg V/1-1 and Code Section A-V/1-1, paragraph 2 Table A-V/1-1-2.

This course is approved by AMSA for the issuance of the following certificate upon successful completion of the course: 

• Advanced Training for Oil Tanker Operations meeting the requirements of STCW Reg V/1-1 and Code Section A-V/1-1, paragraph 2 Table A-V/1-1-2 

Do you want a career in aviation and don't know where to start?

When you complete the Certificate II in Aeroskills you open the door to a career in aviation maintenance, working on the advanced technology that flies 8 million people across the world every day, and is a great pathway into an apprenticeship and a Certificate IV in Aeroskills.

The Certificate II in Aeroskills course is designed to deliver both theoretical and practical knowledge enabling you to gain a solid foundation of both the knowledge and skills required to enter into an aviation maintenance career.

Gain these skills

• aircraft airframe construction
• aircraft hydraulic and pneumatic systems
• aircraft mechanical control systems
• maintenance of mechanical components or parts
• aircraft avionic fundamentals
• aviation industry regulation and standards
• aviation maintenance documentation
• Work, Safety and Health practices in aviation

In the workshop, you will learn both manufacturing hand skills and the basic skills relating to the inspection and maintenance of various aircraft components.

Aerospace Training Centre

South Metro TAFE's AeroSpace Training Centre is the largest provider in WA offering training in aircraft maintenance and aviation. Our lecturers have diverse industry backgrounds including international licensed aircraft maintenance engineers, airline transport pilots, airport managers, flight instructors, cabin crew training managers, emergency procedures instructors, RAAF maintenance supervisors, as well as military and commercial aviators and managers.

The fully equipped hangar of the AeroSpace Training Centre at Jandakot Airport has various aircraft engines, workshop stations, computer facilities, a flight simulator, and a number of aircraft including our own Boeing 737.

Are you looking for an in-demand career looking after the world's most advanced technology?

When you complete the Certificate IV in Aeroskills (Avionics) you will be looking at an exciting career working on aircraft large and small as an aviation maintenance engineer. Aircraft maintenance is a key skills growth area and your qualifications are in demand worldwide.

Learn these skills:

• repair, overhaul, test and troubleshoot all manner of aircraft electrical and electronic aircraft systems
• instrument and communications systems
• power-distribution systems
• autopilot and integrated flight systems
• environmental control systems

The Certificate IV in Aeroskills (Avionics) is an apprenticeship: you must be employed by an appropriate organisation to study. Please see the Apprenticeships section for more information.

Aerospace Training Centre

South Metropolitan TAFE's AeroSpace Training Centre is the largest provider in WA offering training in aircraft maintenance and aviation. Our lecturers have diverse industry backgrounds including international licensed aircraft maintenance engineers, airline transport pilots, airport managers, flight instructors, cabin crew training managers, emergency procedures instructors, RAAF maintenance supervisors, as well as military and commercial aviators and managers.

The fully equipped hangar of the AeroSpace Training Centre at Jandakot Airport has various aircraft engines, workshop stations, computer facilities, a flight simulator, and a number of aircraft including our own Boeing 737.

Are you looking for an in-demand career looking after the world's most advanced technology?

When you complete the Certificate IV in Aeroskills (Mechanical) you will be looking at an exciting career working on aircraft large and small as an aviation maintenance engineer. Aircraft maintenance is a key skills growth area and your qualifications are in demand worldwide.

Learn these skills:

• repair, overhaul, test and troubleshoot all manner of aircraft mechanical systems
• testing of equipment and ground support equipment
• troubleshooting faults
• use of computers to obtain maintenance data and to complete documentation
• interpreting wiring diagrams and system schematics
• removal and installation of aircraft components
• reading drawings relating to maintenance activities

The Certificate IV in Aeroskills (Mechanical) is an apprenticeship: you must be employed by an appropriate organisation to study. Study plans can be created to take in streams including helicopter turbine, helicopter piston turbine, turbine fixed wing, turbine fixed wing structures, piston fixed wing pressure-328, helicopter piston-327, piston fixed wing pressure-401, turbine fixed wing turbo fan and piston fixed wing unpressurised. 

Aerospace Training Centre

South Metropolitan TAFE's AeroSpace Training Centre is the largest provider in WA offering training in aircraft maintenance and aviation. Our lecturers have diverse industry backgrounds including international licensed aircraft maintenance engineers, airline transport pilots, airport managers, flight instructors, cabin crew training managers, emergency procedures instructors, RAAF maintenance supervisors, as well as military and commercial aviators and managers.

The fully equipped hangar of the AeroSpace Training Centre at Jandakot Airport has various aircraft engines, workshop stations, computer facilities, a flight simulator, and a number of aircraft including our own Boeing 737.

Take the next step in your aged care career

Study a qualification that open doors to a range of job opportunities in the aged care industry, whilst giving back to the community.

This qualification builds on the skills and knowledge you would have gained in Certificate III in Individual Support or Certificate III in Aged Care. The units of study are more demanding and provide a deeper understanding of the issues concerning aged clients and service provision for this target group. Graduates will be able to enter the workforce as direct service providers in an agency that provides services to seniors.

Gain these skills:

• plan, develop, implement and monitor programs and services for seniors
• assess the needs of older people with complex circumstances
• plan and conduct group and recreation programs for seniors
• monitor services, implement and monitor health and safety policies and procedures and organise an effective work environment

Want to find out more about this industry?

Students in community services benefit from sharing information about organisations, initiatives and leading expertise in our Community Services Facebook page.

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Want to service tractors, harvestors and agricultural equipment?

This qualification reflects the role of individuals who perform a broad range of tasks on a variety of agricultural machinery in the automotive retail, service and repair industry.

Gain these skills:

• follow safe working practices in an automotive workplace
• test and repair basic electrical circuits
• test, charge and replace batteries and jump-start vehicles
• diagnose and repair charging systems
• diagnose and repair heavy vehicle compression ignition engines
• diagnose and repair heavy vehicle diesel fuel injection systems
• diagnose and repair heavy vehicle drive shafts
• diagnose and repair mobile plant hydraulic systems
• diagnose and repair mobile plant braking systems
• diagnose and repair powershift transmissions
• carry out diagnostic procedures
• inspect and service braking systems
• inspect and service engines

Are you barking mad for animals?

Do you want to gain experience working with animals? This course is an entry point into the animal care industry and prepares you for job roles such as an animal attendant in a kennel, cattery, animal shelter, or pet shop.

Gain these skills

• care and maintenance of animals
• animal care industry
• practical experience with animals

90% of surveyed students were highly satisfied with this course.

Are you looking for a career working with animals?

When you complete the Certificate III in Animal Care Services, you will have acquired the skills and knowledge to work in a broad range of roles in the animal care industry, including boarding, dog day care, rescue shelters, pet sitting, dog walking, breeding establishments and other animal businesses.

Our Bentley Campus houses an animal care facility so you will be able to learn animal care in a simulated workplace with a range of animal species including dogs, rabbits, rats, guinea pigs, fish, budgerigars, cockatiels, and canaries.

Gain these skills:

• Identify animal behaviours
• Interact safely with animals
• Assess the welfare status of animals
• Comply with infection control policies/procedures
• Provide animal first aid
• Walk and exercise dogs
• Bath, dry and brush dogs
• Provide general care for dogs, rodents, rabbits, birds, fish, and reptiles

Enjoy a well-groomed career

This course will provide you with comprehensive training in all aspects of pet grooming services and qualifies you to work under supervision in a pet grooming establishment.

Gain these skills

• salon reception and housekeeping duties
• bathing, brushing, trimming and other grooming services for domestic pets, usually dogs and in some cases cats
• patience and genuine empathy for animals
• customer service skills
• cleanliness and professionalism.

This course builds a strong foundation for future employment in any facility offering pet grooming services including, mobile or shop front salons, veterinary clinics, boarding kennels and pet retail outlets. 

Applicants must have empathy for animals and possess the communication skills and physical ability to successfully perform work placement in the pet grooming industry.

Begin your IT career pathway and enhance your employability skills!

The Certificate II in Applied Digital Technologies will equip you with the foundation skills to either seek general employment, or commence you on an academic pathway for a career in the IT industry.

Gain these skills:

• business application skills in word processing, spreadsheets and database
• develop digital imaging skills
• use and develop social media presence
• work with basic computer hardware and operating systems
• gain workplace health and safety knowledge
• develop sustainable work practices

This qualification is also offered part-time. Use the get help form below to start a discussion with our training area.

Specialist facilities on-campus

The Centre for IT Excellence (CITE) provides state of the art, industry relevant training in information technology and creative media. We provide pathways from foundation studies to advanced diploma with specialist training in cyber security, networking, programming and digital media.

Higher level studies are strongly recommended.

Master Autodesk’s AutoCAD drafting system

This course is aimed at those who may be interested in gaining the necessary skills needed for entry into an Engineering career, that are looking at upskilling in their current position or from post trade, prospective entrepreneurs, that are looking at gaining formal qualification or those that would just like to learn how to use the software for their own personal projects.

Gain these skills

• produce industry standard 2D and 3D engineering drawings
• gain a working knowledge of appropriate standards,
• learn how to produce fully parametric 3D models and assemblies using Autodesk’s Inventor software

This course is ideal for FIFO workers - talk to us about how you can study this course flexibly.

Get a solid foundation in physics for engineering

Learn how to use mathematics as a tool to analyse practical problems. 

This course is ideal for FIFO workers - talk to us about how you can study this course flexibly.

Gain these skills:

• identifying common engineering materials by their principal properties 
• select materials for specific applications
• verify selected material as fit for purpose
• determine stresses in simple structures and mechanical components
• verify stress levels using appropriate reference material
• solve engineering problems involving algebraic expressions with one independent variable
• use trigonometry to solve practical problems
• solve quadratic equations
• statics, dynamics, motion and rotation  

Next dates for delivery

Wednesdays, 20 April to 21 September, 5pm to 8pm

Launch into a career in fashion

When you complete the Advanced Diploma of Applied Fashion Design and Merchandising at Bentley, you’re ready to work as a fashion designer, product developer, production manager, CAD operator, CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing) operator, distribution coordinator, fashion/ textile and colour forecaster, garment finisher, pattern grader/maker, production consultant, or specialised construction machinist.

The Advanced Diploma of Applied Fashion Design and Merchandising course is the final year of three years of fashion study. Culminating in a professional showcase of student collections at an industry-attended fashion show, this course covers every aspect of a fashion cycle. Students and staff work together to build a graduate portfolio and professional profile to prepare graduates for employment.

Gain these skills: 

• specialised digital patternmaking
• costing and pricing strategies 
• marketing and branding 

See more on our award winning students and Bentley facilities facebook and instagram.

The fees and duration of study on this website for this qualification are for the final advanced diploma year only, students enter this qualification after completing the Diploma in Applied Fashion Design and Merchandising.

This qualification is also offered part-time. Use the get help form below to start a discussion with our training area.

Do you want to work in the creative and energetic world of fashion?

The Certificate IV in Applied Fashion Design and Merchandising course immerses students in the ever-dynamic fashion industry. 

Gain these skills:

• fashion design and colour principles
• fashion forecasting
• technical fashion drawing
• fibre and textile investigation and sourcing
• sustainability and ethical production
• digital technologies for fashion design
• patternmaking and grading
• specialist garment construction such as tailored shirts and a denim jacket

See more on our award winning students and fashion facilities on facebook and instagram

Are you ready to get serious about a career in fashion?

Do you aspire to a career as an assistant fashion designer, CAD operator, CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing) operator, fabric and supply technician or patternmaker?

The Diploma of Applied Fashion Design and Merchandising course builds on student fashion skills. 

Gain these skills:

• conceptual design development
• fashion illustration
• textile development and manipulation techniques
• digital print development
• digital fashion and production technologies 
• specialist patternmaking
• CAD patternmaking and grading
• specialist garment construction including bras and swimwear, tailored fully lined jackets, boned bodices and leatherwork

See more on our award winning students and facilities facebook and instagram.

This qualification is also offered part-time. Use the get help form below to start a discussion with our training area.

Fashion business skills in a global industry

Do you want to have a career in a fashion business environment? The Fashion Business and Merchandising pathway at Bentley immerses you in creative fashion business skills such as fashion forecasting and buying; visual merchandising and digital engagement; and marketing and social media.

You will learn the legal, financing and trade essentials for fashion enterprise and the import and export of product.

Gain these skills

• international fashion sourcing
• sustainable supply and manufacturing
• creation of accurate costings
• tech packs for managing offshore production

This course includes an internship component in a fashion business environment.

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This pilot traineeship has been developed in collaboration with our industry partners to equip you with the skills and knowledge to undertake technical roles within Industry 4.0 manufacturing and/or engineering environments.   These are fresh new skills and knowledge in demand right now and transferrable to the workforce of tomorrow. 

Gain these skills

• Industry 4.0 objectives
• Project life cycle
• Managing technical documents
• Producing products with CAD and CAM
• Understanding electrical systems
• Cloud computing and SCADA
• Network configuration
• Troubleshooting cyber-physical systems, digital and industrial controls

Manage thermodynamic, fluid mechanics and controllers in power and energy sectors

The skill set will develop your knowledge in carrying out mechanical design and performance analysis in fluid statics, fluid motion, heat and power exchange in steam and similar power plants, engines and refrigeration systems, to name just a few practical purposes. 

This course is ideal for FIFO workers - talk to us about how you can study this course flexibly.

Gain these skills:

• investigate and review sustainability implications, features and functions of Mechanical Engineering sector
• software assisted techniques for applications for fluid and thermodynamic principles in engineering
• discover the simulated working environment must be used where the range of conditions reflects realistic workplace situations.
• reviewing sustainability implications, functions and features of fluid, thermodynamic and vacuum devices, machines and systems
• identify and evaluate hydrodynamic and thermodynamic principles and techniques, analysis techniques, software and software validation techniques
• operate, develop and maintain a computer/controller system/program to fulfill project requirements 
• report and document results of scoping, principles and techniques identification, evaluation of applications, calculations, component and system layouts, and functional diagrams

Next dates for delivery

To be confirmed.

This course provides the candidate with the skills and knowledge to be able to react appropriately in an emergency situation, where a casualty has been injured at sea, or is acutely ill. To use those items of first aid equipment found in ships medical outfits, which are not included in the standard first aid kit. 

This course meets the requirements of STCW as revised by Manila Amendments 2010, and is AMSA approved.

Gain these skills

• Responsibilities of the first aider
• Respiratory and circulatory systems
• Wounds and bleeding
• Poisons, signs and symptoms
• Hypothermia, frostbite, heat exhaustion, heat stroke
• Explosion injuries
• Personal hygiene
• Ships Captain Medical Guide, IMO Publications,
• Marine Orders Part 10, Admiralty List of Radio Signals
• International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code (IMDG Code)
• Cargo and cargo handling - dangerous goods

Dates

4 to 6 July

Are you looking to join a school of fish lovers?

This qualification is the crucial first step towards an exciting career in aquaculture. This course provides students with a range of core skills and knowledge relevant to working in the aquaculture industry. Graduates go on to further studies or working in a range on environments including onshore aquaculture facilities, offshore culture facilities and the ornamental fish industry.

Gain these skills

• handling and harvesting stock,
• preparing stock for live transport,
• monitoring stock and environmental conditions,
• producing algal cultures, and
• working effectively in the seafood industry

Aquaculture is a fast-growing industry. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) issued a report in 2018 stating that ‘aquaculture is fastest growing food production sector worldwide’. Typical entry-level jobs for those holding Certificate II include:

• Australian and overseas aquaculture farms
• hatcheries and nurseries   
• live post-harvest holding facilities, such as processing plants, wholesalers or 
• transporters, pet shops, public aquaria, zoos or other facilities with aquatic animals 

Study in a specialised facility in the maritime heart of Fremantle

Fremantle campus features extensive salt and freshwater aquaculture facilities, and experienced staff which offers plenty of relevant hands-on opportunities. Our staff have involved students in the culture and applied research projects of many marine and freshwater organisms over the last two decades including species such as abalone, dhufish, yellowtail kingfish, marron and barramundi.

Are you looking to join a school of fish lovers?

This course is ideal for those looking to expand on the skills and knowledge they gained in Certificate II in Aquaculture. It also comes packed with opportunities to upskill with either boating or diving skills. While a solid foundation in aquatic science is essential, the aquaculture sector prefers to hire staff with additional boating and/or diving qualifications.  

Gain these skills:

• care for and maintain fish stocks, culture and holding environments 
• installing or constructing stock culture or holding structures and other allied structures
• assessing and controlling biosecurity and stock health and treating aquatic stock for diseases
• monitoring and maintaining water quality
• co-ordinating feeding activities, handling and harvesting operations for aquatic stock
• operating high technology water treatment components
• implementing emergency procedures, occupational health and safety policies and guidelines

Further skills from the maritime industry

Certificate II in Maritime Operations (Coxswain Grade 1 Near Coastal)

• commanding and operating a vessel less than 12 metres long with unlimited outboard engine propulsion, or inboard engines less than 100 kilowatts

Coxswain's can gain employment in the small vessel sector in commercial workboats, aquaculture, fisheries and tourism.

Specialist facilities in the maritime heart of Fremantle

Our Fremantle campus features a working aquaculture facility with hatchery tanks and filtration systems and is within convenient walking distance to the fishing industry in Fremantle. Our lecturers have a strong relationship with the Australian Centre for Applied Aquaculture Research (ACAAR) in the neighbouring facility.

This higher level qualification will provide you with the practical skills and knowledge to manage the operations of fish farms, marine farms and hatcheries. It is suitable for students that hold a certificate III in aquaculture or have substantial aquaculture industry experience.

Gain these skills:

• developing and implementing a breeding strategy
• planning ecologically sustainable practices
• biosecurity
• managing stock health
• developing a stock production plan and
• managing an aquaculture research trial

You will also learn skills in planning and designing a water supply and disposal system, and stock culture systems and structures. You will learn the skills necessary to supervise and manage staff.

The environments in which our graduates work include:

• aquaculture farms or fishout/put-and-take operations
• hatcheries and nurseries
• live post-harvest holding facilities, such as processing plants, wholesalers or transporters
• pet shops, public aquaria, zoos or other facilities with aquatic animals

Study in a specialised facility in the maritime heart of Fremantle:

Fremantle campus features extensive salt and freshwater aquaculture facilities, and experienced staff which offers plenty of relevant hands-on opportunities. Our staff have involved students in the culture and applied research projects of many marine and freshwater organisms over the last two decades including species such as abalone, dhufish, yellowtail kingfish, marron and barramundi.

Fancy a career outdoors?

Branch out with a Certificate III in Arboriculture and combine your love of the outdoors with a fascinating career as an arborist.

Gain a range of knowledge and skills to undertake arboriculture related work, and use this qualification as a pathway for further learning required to become an arborist. You will cover both ground-based work and working at heights.

Learn these skills:

• tree identification
• pruning operations
• using and maintaining arboriculture equipment 
• first aid 
• workplace safety and health

Are you revved up for a career working with the coolest cars?

When you complete the Certificate II in Automotive Air Conditioning Technology you'll have what employers are looking for as an apprentice automotive air conditioning specialist.

Gain these skills:

• service heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems 
• retrofitting and modifying 
• diagnosing and repairing faults 
• workplace safety and health

Learn in specialised facilities

Kwinana campus offers specialist training in automotive air conditioning with purpose-built air-conditioning rigs, providing students with a high quality of learning and practical skills. It also boasts a large modern, indoor workshop where students undertake all their learning and training.

If you're already trade-qualified in vehicle servicing, ask us about how Recognition of Prior Learning can accelerate your achieving a new specialty with this qualification. 

Are you looking for a body-building career?

When you complete the Certificate III in Automotive Body Repair Technology you'll be ready for a career in the vehicle body repair industry.

Gain these skills:

• replace panels and fittings
• repair corroded, thermoplastic, and composite material components
• oxy-acetylene and arc welding
• thermal cutting
• paint-less dent repairs
• vehicle body misalignment
• chassis, and frame repairs
• workplace safety and health

Learn in specialised facilities

South Metropolitan TAFE's Carlisle Campus is WA's major centre for automotive and panel beating studies. Automotive apprentices and pre-apprentices enjoy state of the art facilities, including new vehicles, specialised repair and diagnostic equipment, fully equipped spray painting ovens, specialised workrooms and workshops. This excellent training program is highly competitive.

Are you revved up for a career in giving cars their shine?

When you complete the Certificate II in Automotive Body Repair Technology (Panel Beating Pre-Apprenticeship) you'll have what employers are looking for in an apprentice auto body repairer/panel beater.

Gain these skills

• welding 
• thermal cutting 
• removing and replacing panels and fittings 
• rust prevention 
• environmental regulations and
• workplace safety and health

Learn in specialised facilities

South Metropolitan TAFE's Carlisle Campus is WA's major centre for automotive and panel beating studies. Automotive apprentices and pre-apprentices enjoy state of the art facilities, including new vehicles, specialised repair and diagnostic equipment, fully equipped spray painting ovens, specialised workrooms and workshops. This excellent training program is highly competitive.

Are you revved up for a career in giving cars their shine?

When you complete the Certificate II in Automotive Body Repair Technology (Vehicle Body Painting Pre-Apprenticeship) you'll have what employers are looking for in an apprentice auto body repairer/painter.

Gain these skills

• prepare vehicle panels for painting
• removing and repairing panels
• environmental regulations
• workplace safety and health

South Metropolitan TAFE is the only TAFE in WA offering this qualification.

Learn in specialised facilities

South Metropolitan TAFE's Carlisle Campus is WA's major centre for automotive and panel beating studies. Automotive apprentices and pre-apprentices enjoy state of the art facilities, including new vehicles, specialised repair and diagnostic equipment, fully equipped spray painting ovens, specialised workrooms and workshops. This excellent training program is highly competitive.

Are you ready to give cars their spark?

When you complete the Certificate II in Automotive Electrical Technology you'll have what employers are looking for in an apprentice automotive electrician.

Gain these skills:

• installing
• testing and repairing wiring and lighting systems
• security systems
• electrical components and circuits
• read wiring diagrams and
• workplace safety and health

Learn in specialised facilities

South Metropolitan TAFE's Carlisle Campus is WA's major centre for automotive and panel beating studies. Automotive apprentices and pre-apprentices enjoy state of the art facilities, including new vehicles, specialised repair and diagnostic equipment, fully equipped spray painting ovens, specialised workrooms and workshops. This excellent training program is highly competitive.

Good news!

This course is going to transition to a new training package in 2022. This means that students starting in 2022 will transfer during their study to new units developed to meet current and future industry needs.

Are you looking for a spark to ignite your automotive career?

When you complete the Certificate III in Automotive Electrical Technology you'll be ready for a career in the automotive electrical industry.

Gain these skills

• electric and electronic diagnosis and repair
• vehicle wiring
• overhauling alternators and starter motors
• electronic drive systems
• electric vehicle charging systems
• workplace safety and health

Learn in specialised facilities

South Metropolitan TAFE's Carlisle Campus is WA's major centre for automotive and panel beating studies. Automotive apprentices and pre-apprentices enjoy state of the art facilities, including new vehicles, specialised repair and diagnostic equipment, fully equipped spray painting ovens, specialised workrooms and workshops. This excellent training program is highly competitive.

Are you revved up for a career giving cars their spark?

When you complete the Certificate II in Automotive Electrical Technology (Automotive Electrical Pre-Apprenticeship) you'll have what employers are looking for in an apprentice automotive electrician.

Gain these skills

• installing
• testing and repairing wiring and lighting systems
• security systems
• electrical components and circuits
• read wiring diagrams and
• workplace safety and health

Learn in specialised facilities

South Metropolitan TAFE's Carlisle Campus is WA's major centre for automotive and panel beating studies. Automotive apprentices and pre-apprentices enjoy state of the art facilities, including new vehicles, specialised repair and diagnostic equipment, fully equipped spray painting ovens, specialised workrooms and workshops. This excellent training program is highly competitive.

Kwinana campus offers specialist training in automotive air conditioning with purpose-built air-conditioning rigs, providing students with a high quality of learning and practical skills. It also boasts a large modern, indoor workshop where students undertake all their learning and training.

Are you revved up for a body building career?

When you complete the Certificate II in Automotive Manufacturing Production - Bus, Truck and Trailer (Vehicle Body Building Pre-Apprenticeship) you'll have what employers are looking for in an apprentice vehicle body builder.

Gain these skills

• operate automotive tools, equipment and machinery 
• paint vehicle chassis and surfaces 
• assemble components 
• work in a team and
• workplace safety and health

Build your career in vehicle construction and repair

Vehicle construction and repair is a diverse trade requiring a broad range of skills. Vehicle Construction and Repair workers manufacture, modify and repair a wide range of purpose built heavy and light commercial vehicle bodies, trailers, chassis and components. These include buses, vans, tipping bodies, cabs, semi trailers, mining vehicles, heavy haulage, light vehicles, tankers, recovery vehicles and personnel carriers.

Trades people in this industry use a vast variety of materials such as steel, aluminium, sheet metal, plastic, fiberglass, wood, rubber, glass and box sections and channel. They will weld (gas metal arc and electric arc welding) fit, bolt, rivet and glue these materials as well as install axles, suspension, brakes, wheels, hydraulic, pneumatic, lighting and electrical systems as required. You will also learn to contribute to workplace relationships and processes, provide customer service and participate in improving workplace productivity.

Gain these skills:

• prepare materials for fabrication using jigs/fixtures and manual processes
• conduct mechanical cutting operations
• perform various types of welding operations
• mount and assemble components
• modify or rectify chassis/frame and associated components

Build your career in the vehicle body repair industry

When you complete the Certificate III in Automotive Refinishing Technology you'll be ready for a career in the vehicle body repair industry.

Gain these skills:

• apply and restore exterior paint
• colour matching
• prepare surfaces for refinishing
• touch-up techniques
• repair panels with filler
• use spray booths
• rust prevention
• sound deadening
• workplace safety and health

Learn in specialised facilities

South Metro TAFE's Carlisle Campus is WA's major centre for automotive and panel beating studies. Automotive apprentices and pre-apprentices enjoy state of the art facilities, including new vehicles, specialised repair and diagnostic equipment, fully equipped spray painting ovens, specialised workrooms and workshops.

Are you geared up for a big career working with big gears?

When you complete the Certificate II in Automotive Servicing Technology (Heavy Vehicle Servicing Pre-Apprenticeship) you'll have what employers are looking for in an apprentice heavy vehicle or plant mechanic.

Gain these skills

• working on loaders, bulldozers, dump trucks and haul trucks
• inspecting and servicing transmissions, steering, brakes, fuel injection systems, hydraulics, and batteries
• troubleshooting basic faults
• workplace safety and health

Are you revved up for a career powering modern cars?

By the time you've finished this qualification, you'll know your radiator from your regulator and be in a good position to get yourself an apprenticeship in mechanics.

Gain these skills:

• service engine systems 
• use and maintaining, testing and measuring devices 
• use and maintaining tools and equipment 
• workplace safety

Specialist training facilities

South Metro TAFE's Carlisle Campus is WA's major centre for automotive and panel beating studies. Automotive apprentices and pre-apprentices enjoy state of the art facilities, including new vehicles, specialised repair and diagnostic equipment, fully equipped spray painting ovens, specialised workrooms and workshops. This excellent training program is highly competitive.

Kwinana campus offers specialist training in automotive air conditioning with purpose-built air-conditioning rigs, providing students with a high quality of learning and practical skills. It also boasts a large modern, indoor workshop where students undertake all their learning and training.

Automation is just one of the Industry 4.0 trends in accelerating the efficiency of organisations and utilising new and emerging technologies to automate processes. Be ahead of the curve and ensure your path to a job of the future.

This course allows students to gain knowledge and skills to perform the tasks associated with a role in industry working in Remote Control operations centres.

Gain these skills:

• optimising performance of a complex control system within the organisation
• using knowledge of the organisation’s value chain to improve quality outcomes
• optimising automated operations as a controller in a specialist area
• maintaining continuity of operational control through effective briefings and handovers
• using a range of communication technology to communicate remotely with team members or other stakeholders
• managing situational awareness and other factors that affect personal performance to reduce the likelihood and severity of errors
• making informed decisions in known or predictable situations and undertaking dynamic decision making in complex, high consequence situations
• controlling automation safety risks
• influencing quality outcomes through collaborative work practices and informal leadership of colleagues.

Become part of the wave of future technologies in automation

Automation is just one of the Industry 4.0 trends in accelerating the efficiency of organisations and utilising new and emerging technologies to automate production processes using machinery and state-of-the-art technologies. Be ahead of the curve and ensure your path to a job of the future.

A career in automation offers the opportunity to work in a field that is challenging, interesting, in-demand and well-paid.   

This course allows students to develop a good understanding of the emerging technologies in the resources sector. Learn how automation is innovating mobile and fixed plant operations, get an introduction to Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) and process control operations. These skills are in high demand in the sector, so graduates will be well placed to pursue a traineeship or apprenticeship following this course. 

Gain these skills:

• awareness of an autonomous workplace and how it operates
• what unique safety systems are present
• how the human-machine interface operates
• what, why and how data is used within such workplaces
• identify and use basic current industry specific technologies
• contribute to autonomous workplace communication and team effectiveness
• work within the value chain of an automated operation
• use data and technology to complete work within an automated operation
• prepare basic programs for programmable logic controllers
• operate local control system

The course also provides an overview of the historical development of automation, an in-depth coverage of current automation and insight into some future extensions.

Study at Munster Campus three days a week with specialist simulation facilities available to allow students to develop real-world experience.

Take to the skies in a management role

Prepare for a role in aviation management by learning how to perform ground operations duties in support of commercial or Defence aviation flight operations.

Learn to apply technical and non-technical aviation skills and knowledge in support of a wide range of aerodrome and air transport operations with autonomy, judgement and defined responsibility in known or changing contexts within broad but established parameters.

Gain these skills:

• passenger, charter, cargo, emergency service and government operations

Are you ready to take-off into the airport or airline industry?

This qualification will provide you with technical and non-technical aviation skills to operate effectively in a broad range of ground operations and service roles.  When you complete the Certificate IV in Aviation (Aviation Supervision) you will be on your way to a career managing the ground operations of an airport: airline services, airport operation and other ground services.

Gain these skills

• aviation safety
• airport environmental control
• airline and airport operations supervision
• coordinate accident and emergency procedures
• identify and respond to health, safety and security issues
• communicate effectively in the airline and airport working environment
• operational procedures in the modern aviation industry
• using technology and processing documents
• effectively deal with customers

You will gain valuable industry workplace exposure to airport and airline operations, as well as experience in an aviation environment within our fully equipped aircraft hangar facility.

This course has been developed in partnership with the aviation industry, and provides you with a professional, non-flying pathway to an exciting career in aviation.

Previous graduates of this course have found employment with both international and regional airports and within the broader aviation industry.

Aerospace Training Centre

South Metropolitan TAFE's AeroSpace Training Centre is the largest provider in WA offering training in aircraft maintenance and aviation. Our lecturers have diverse industry backgrounds including international licensed aircraft maintenance engineers, airline transport pilots, airport managers, flight instructors, cabin crew training managers, emergency procedures instructors, RAAF maintenance supervisors, as well as military and commercial aviators and managers.

The fully equipped hangar of the AeroSpace Training Centre at Jandakot Airport has various aircraft engines, workshop stations, computer facilities, a flight simulator, and a number of aircraft including our own Boeing 737.

Are you ready to let your dreams soar?

When you complete the Certificate III in Aviation (Cabin Crew) you will be recruitment-ready for an exciting career as a flight attendant or cabin crew member.

Gain these skills:

• emergency response drills
• first aid
• responsible service of alcohol
• teamwork and customer service
• preparation for cabin duties

You will gain confidence in dealing with difficult passengers on an aircraft with crew member security training.

This course is specifically designed for those seeking an exciting career as a cabin crew member (flight attendant). This course has been developed in conjunction with commercial airlines and experienced cabin crew training managers to meet current aviation standards and will thoroughly prepare you to be successful in the airline industry.

South Metropolitan TAFE has a Boeing 737 which will be used for the majority of your practical training. The fun begins with practical exercises such as evacuating down a slide, simulated cabin fires with a smoke machine, firefighting, ditching and life raft training. You will have hands on instruction in the full-length cabin with business and economy class seating, fully operational galleys, cabin service equipment and PA system.

Graduates of this course have successfully gained employment with both regional and international airlines as cabin crew members. Students should also be fit and healthy in order to successfully complete the airlines emergency procedure training. A prerequisite for the course is the ability to swim a minimum of 50 metres, unaided and fully clothed. Students must provide a swimming certificate in order to demonstrate they meet the prerequisite and can therefore participate in the water training exercises.

Aerospace Training Centre

South Metropolitan TAFE's AeroSpace Training Centre is the largest provider in WA offering training in aircraft maintenance and aviation. Our lecturers have diverse industry backgrounds including international licensed aircraft maintenance engineers, airline transport pilots, airport managers, flight instructors, cabin crew training managers, emergency procedures instructors, RAAF maintenance supervisors, as well as military and commercial aviators and managers.

The fully equipped hangar of the AeroSpace Training Centre at Jandakot Airport has various aircraft engines, workshop stations, computer facilities, a flight simulator, and a number of aircraft including our own Boeing 737.

Do you have sky-high ambition to be a commercial pilot?

Make the Perth skies your next office window with the skills and knowledge to become a commercial aircraft pilot. Learn to fly light piston aeroplanes including knowing how to perform in normal and emergency conditions. 

Our commercial pilot’s course enables you to reach toward certification as a commercial pilot through Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA)’s Part 61 Flight crew licensing regulations. We offer training full time that integrates your theory study at campus with flying time located at Jandakot airport. 

You will complete 600 hours of theory and flying time in a range of conditions and times of day to prepare you for a diverse aviation career. Our lecturers work with you to help you traverse a wide range of air transport operations, including passenger, charter and cargo operations; and how to use your autonomy, judgement and defined responsibility for an extensive range of scenarios that you might face in the skies.

Gain these skills:

• maintain aircraft radio communications
• implement aviation risk management processes
• implement aviation fatigue risk management processes
• implement threat and error management strategies
• manage safe flight operations
• manage human factors in aviation operations
• manage disruptive behaviour and unlawful interference with aviation
• operate aircraft using aircraft flight instruments

Reach new heights as a commercial helicopter pilot

Take your career to the skies with the skills and knowledge to become a commercial helicopter pilot. Learn to fly light piston helicopters including knowing how to perform in normal and emergency conditions.

Our commercial pilot’s course enables you to reach toward certification as a commercial pilot through Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA)’s Part 61 Flight crew licensing regulations. We offer training full time that blends your theory study at campus with flying time located at Jandakot airport.

Outside of class time, you will complete 600 additional hours flying in a range of conditions and times of day to prepare you well for a diverse aviation career and increasing your employability. Our lecturers work with you to help you traverse a wide range of air transport operations, including passenger, charter and cargo operations; and how to use your autonomy, judgement and defined responsibility for an extensive range of scenarios that you might face in the skies.

Gain these skills:

• implement aviation risk management processes
• implement threat and error management strategies
• maintain aircraft radio communications
• manage safe flight operations
• manage aircraft passengers and cargo
• manage human factors in aviation operations
• plan a flight under visual flight rules
• licence to operate a commercial helicopter
• manage disruptive behaviour and unlawful interference with aviation
• manage pre- and post-flight actions
• operate in controlled airspace

Take your career to new heights

Obtaining a remote pilots licence is the first step to being able to operate remotely piloted aircraft systems, otherwise known as drones or UAV's for commercial or business purposes without weight operating restrictions. 

This course equips students with the skills to command a sub two-kilogram drone aircraft, which lays the foundations for entrepreneurial endeavours including filming for weddings and advertising. Students can pursue a career in aviation and develop industry leading skills within the remotely piloted aircraft system (RPAS) industry, then progress to fly larger RPAS with further qualifications.

Gain these skills

• operate and manage remote pilot aircraft systems
• launch, control and recover a remotely piloted aircraft
• perform operational inspections on remote operated systems

Want a decorated career as a baker or pastry chef?

When you complete the Certificate III in Baking you will be able to work as a baker or pastry chef in a hotel, bakery, restaurant, or pastry shop.

Gain these skills

• produce a variety of breads, cakes, pastries, biscuits, rolls, scrolls, gateaux, tortes, pies, and slices
• first aid
• food safety programs
• hygiene
• workplace health and safety

We are the only public provider offering training in baking with an on-campus bakehouse that sells students' work to the general public.

Ready for your career to rise as a baker?

When you complete the Certificate II in Baking (Baking Pre-Apprenticeship) you will be ready for an apprenticeship in the baking industry.

Gain these skills

• make and bake pastry, bread, meringues, and doughnuts
• customer service
• first aid
• hygiene
• workplace health and safety

We are the only provider offering training in baking with an on-campus bakehouse that sells students' work to the general public.

Want to be a cut above the rest?

Do you want to become a barber? This qualification is delivered on campus one day a week, so it allows you to study while working at a hairdressing salon as an apprentice. 

Gain these skills:

• sales, consultation and technical skills
• broad range of barbering services to clients
• using discretion and judgement to provide client services
• taking responsibility for work outcomes

You will be required to participate in our Student Training Salon that is open to the public, with real, paying clients. This qualification provides a pathway to work as a barber in any industry environment, usually a barber-shop or salon.

Recognition of Prior Learning is available for this qualification to qualified hairdressers.

Learn how to work with gas safely and correctly

Are you a gas fitter? The Gas Legislation and Safety course will provide you with the Gas Fitting Permit to Work Under Supervision.  It comprises of three components, WA Gas Regulations, Gas Safety and Basic Combustion and Flueing.

Successful completion of the final assessment will be needed to receive a completion letter that is required by Building and Energy to apply for a Gas Fitting Permit to Work Under Supervision. 

Ready to give your career a makeover?

Gain the skills and knowledge to work across a broad range of positions in the vibrant and exciting beauty industry.  

At SM TAFE your fees are inclusive of all training products and equipment for the entirety of your course. You will receive a take home makeup brush kit to start you on your makeup journey. Additional purchases include a beauty tunic, text book and linen for class use.

Gain these skills:

• lash and brow treatments
• manicure and pedicure design
• apply makeup
• lash extension
• waxing
• tanning
• perform client consultations
• advise on beauty products and services
• acrylic nails and drill use

Be trained by industry specialists in our well-equipped beauty clinic rooms, using a wide range of professional products and technologies, including Dermalogica skin care, and MAC, Crown, Kryolan and LA girl makeup.

Are you ready for a beautiful career?

When you complete the Certificate IV in Beauty Therapy you will be looking at a career as a beauty therapist in a beauty salon, cruise ship or even your own home salon.

Be trained by industry specialists in our well-equipped beauty clinic rooms, using a wide range of professional products and technologies, including Dermalogica and Medik8 skin care, and MAC, Crown, Kryolan and LA girl makeup.

At SM TAFE your fees are inclusive of all training products and equipment for the entirety of your course. You will receive a take home makeup brush kit to start you on your makeup journey. Additional purchases include a beauty tunic, text book and linen for class use.

Gain these skills:

• facials and specialised facials
• body massage and aromatherapy massage
• body treatments
• waxing
• lash and brows
• makeup application
• spray tanning
• eye lash extensions
• retail and sales operations
• manicure and pedicure
• infection control and safe hygeine

You will also have the opportunity to apply your skills in our Hair, Beauty & Massage Student Clinics.

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This course can provide a pathway to higher qualifications such as Diploma of Beauty, dermal science and nursing.

Speak with a coordinator or program manager if you do not meet the eligible entry criteria.

Are you interested in the science behind beauty?

Are you interested in a rewarding career as a beauty therapist? This diploma opens graduates to a range of employment opportunities such as working in a spa salon, a beauty salon, cruise ships, or working at home for yourself. It is also a pathway to Advanced Dermal Science qualifications.

This course provides theory training in IPL and LASER units which gain you the Laser Safety Officer Certificate required to work with these modalities in industry. South Metropolitan TAFE is proud to be the first TAFE in Western Australia to offer this certification

Be trained by industry specialists in our well-equipped beauty clinic rooms, using a wide range of professional products and technologies, including Dermalogica and Medik8 skin care, and MAC, Crown, Kryolan and LA girl makeup.

At South Metro TAFE your fees are inclusive of all training products and equipment for the entirety of your course. You will receive a take home makeup brush kit to start you on your makeup journey. Additional purchases include a beauty tunic, text book and linen for class use.

Gain these skills

• microdermabrasion
• specialised skin peels with Medik8 and Dermalogica
• IPL and laser safety protocols (laser safety Officer Certificate)
• facials and specialised facials
• body massage and aromatherapy massage
• body treatments
• waxing
• lash and brow treatments
• aromatherapy
• spray tanning
• lash extensions
• skills in retail and sales operations
• reflexology
• Indian head massage
• hot stone massage
• Infection control and safe hygiene
• Blending and application of aromatherapy oils

On completion of this course you will gain the Laser Safety Officers Certificate required to perform IPL and laser treatments in a salon or clinic.

Work in specialist, open to the public clinics on campus

You will have the opportunity to apply your skills in our Hair, Beauty & Massage Student Clinics.

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This course is a VET Student Loan eligible course. A VET Student Loan creates a debt that must be repaid to the Commonwealth and is only available to students who are eligible. To find out if you are eligible or to see the list of eligible courses visit our Student Loans page.

Speak with a coordinator or program manager if you do not meet the eligible entry criteria.

When you complete the Certificate III in Bread Baking you will be able to start work as a baker.

Gain these skills

• specialise in making different types of bread (sourdough, turkish bread, baguettes, continental loaves, panino, cobs, rye, ciabatta, focaccia, scrolls, rolls, scones)
• first aid
• food safety programs
• workplace health and safety

We are the only public provider offering training with an on-campus bakehouse that sells student's work to the general public.

Do you want to build a lifetime career from the ground up?

When you complete the Certificate III in Bricklaying/Blocklaying you will be ready for a certified trade career as a bricklayer or blocklayer.

Gain these skills

You will gain the knowledge and skills to lay bricks for domestic, commercial, and public buildings.

• construct arches
• columns
• feature walls
• steps & stairs
• curved walls
• ornamental panels
• interpret plans
• apply work health and safety requirements

Learn in specialised facilities

South Metropolitan TAFE's Thornlie and Rockingham Campuses offer first rate, fully equipped, purpose-built workshops, where students get hands-on practice working in simulation rooms, using advanced equipment and the latest techniques.

Do you want to build a career from the foundations up to the ridge flashing?

When you complete the Diploma of Building and Construction (Building) you will be ready for a career as a construction site manager, or (with additional experience) registered building practitioner.

Prospective applicants should already have (or have by course completion date) 7 years or more experience in the Building Industry.

Gain these skills:

• coordinate the construction of residential buildings
• building and contract law
• quantities and estimating
• site safety
• timber code
• project management
• building contracts
• workplace health and safety

This course covers the academic requirement for registration as a builder with Building Services Board.

Please note: New students will commence in Semester 2, 2022. 

Do you want to build your career outdoors?

When you complete this Certificate II in Building and Construction pre-apprenticeship you'll be what employers are looking for as an apprentice bricklayer/blocklayer.

Gain these skills 

• constructing and repairing walls, arches, foundations, and partitions 
• interpreting plans 
• measuring 
• calculating the right amount of materials for the job 
• working with scaffolding safely at heights and
• workplace health and safety

Could, should, wood! Nail a career in carpentry with this pre-apprenticeship 

When you complete this Certificate II in Building and Construction pre-apprenticeship you'll be what employers are looking for as an apprentice carpenter and joiner.

You will gain the knowledge and skills to work effectively in the building industry, in accordance with current building practices.

Gain these skills

• manual and power tool use 
• construction of wall frames 
• installing flooring 
• interpreting plans 
• measuring 
• calculating the right amount of materials for the job 
• working with scaffolding safely at heights and
• workplace health and safety

Learn in specialised facilities

The Mandurah, Rockingham and Thornlie campuses offer world-class facilities and are equipped with the latest technology.

Do you have an eye for colour and like to finish what others start?

When you complete this Certificate II in Building and Construction pre-apprenticeship you'll be what employers are looking for as an apprentice painter and decorator.

Gain these skills: 

• painting techniques 
• interpreting plans 
• preparing surfaces 
• measuring 
• calculating the right amount of materials for the job 
• working with scaffolding safely at heights and
• workplace health and safety

Painting and decorating is known as the finishing trade, encompassing both residential and commercial areas. It can include new constructions as well as restoring historically significant buildings.

Learn in specialised facilities

South Metropolitan TAFE's Thornlie and Mandurah Campuses offer first rate, fully equipped, purpose-built workshops, where students get hands-on practice working in simulation rooms, using advanced equipment and the latest techniques.

Do you have an eye for detail and want your work on show?

When you complete this Certificate II in Building and Construction pre-apprenticeship you'll be what employers are looking for as an apprentice wall and floor tiler.

Gain these skills: 

• lay ceramic, clay, slate, marble and glass tiles 
• interpret plans 
• measure and calculate the right amount of materials for the job 
• work with scaffolding safely at heights
• workplace health and safety

Do you want the skills for a flexible career that could take you anywhere?

When you complete the Certificate III in Business you'll have skills that employers are looking for, making you ideal for roles in data entry, customer service, accounts or as an office clerk.

Gain these skills

• basic MYOB
• workplace organisation
• customer service
• workplace health and safety
• desktop publishing, spreadsheets, creating electronic presentations

With industry and government forecasting a strong demand for office workers in coming years, you'll be ready for recruiting.

This qualification is also offered part-time. Use the get help form below to start a discussion with our training area.

Do you want a career among tomorrow's business leaders?

When you complete the Certificate IV in Business you will have a practical foundation to take you into a number of business and corporate careers: office management, start-up business planning and marketing, and customer service.

Gain these skills

• manage customer needs and feedback
• develop and promote products and services
• play a supporting role in the recruitment of staff
• make presentations to groups
• work in effective teams
• workplace health and safety

Completion of the Certificate IV in Business opens up a range of further study options, including specialist business diplomas and it may assist in entry to university.

This qualification is also offered part-time. Use the get help form below to start a discussion with our training area.   

Do you have what it takes to take care of business?

When you complete the Diploma of Business you will have what it takes for a career in both the government and private sectors.

Gain these skills

• build and manage a capable team
• recruit the right people
• develop your team's skills
• manage organisational risk
• undertake projects
• facilitate effective meetings
• manage risk

Completion of the Diploma of Business opens up a range of further study options and it may give you advanced standing towards a university degree.

This qualification is also offered part-time. Use the get help form below to start a discussion with our training area.

Do you want the skills for a flexible career that could take you anywhere?

When you complete the Certificate III in Business Administration you'll have skills that employers are looking for, making you ideal for roles in data entry, customer service, or as an office or accounts clerk, secretary or receptionist.

Gain these skills

• knowledge in basic MYOB
• workplace organisation
• workplace health and safety
• spreadsheets and organising schedules
• word processing, electronic presentations 

With industry and government forecasting a growing demand for office workers in coming years, you'll be ready for recruiting.

This course is also offered as a dual qualification with Certificate III in Business.

This qualification is also offered part-time. Use the get help form below to start a discussion with our training area.

Are you ready to organise your career in administration?

When you complete the Certificate IV in Business Administration you will be set for a career with expanding possibilities: in office management, or business administration.

Gain these skills

• manage customer needs and feedback
• develop complex documents and spreadsheets
• facilitate smooth workplace communication
• make presentations to groups
• work in effective teams
• workplace health and safety

If you choose to enrol in the additional unit BSBHRM415 Coordinate recruitment and onboarding you may also be eligible for the BSB40120 Certificate IV in Business.

Completion of the Certificate IV in Business (Business Administration) opens up a range of further study options, including specialist business diplomas, and it may assist in entry to university.

This qualification is also offered part-time. Use the get help form below to start a discussion with our training area.

Do you want a career supporting health professionals?

When you complete the Certificate III in Business Administration (Medical) you'll have skills that may be suitable for a medical administration support role.

Gain these skills

• basic accounting
• workplace organisation
• workplace health and safety
• introduction to medical terminology
• maintaining patient records and medical accounts

With industry and government forecasting a growing demand for medical receptionists and clerks in coming years, you could be ready for recruiting.

This qualification is also offered part-time. Use the get help form below to start a discussion with our training area.

Get ready for a career in Business! 

This skill set is the perfect introduction to office administration, clerical work and reception work.

You will learn to all aspects of customer service and management, organisation of daily work tasks, how to produce professional documents using relevant business technology and how to work effectively with colleagues in an office environment.  

Gain these skills 

• Deliver a service to customers 
• Produce digital text documents 
• Organise and complete daily work activities 
• Use business technology 
• Contribute to health and safety of self and others 

Tuition and resource fees

Eligible students study this course absolutely free. If you are not eligible you can expect to pay $720.00.

Study for a career in aircraft maintenance or advance your existing aircraft maintenance career with a B1 or B2 Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineer (LAME) license. SM TAFE offers modules to suit the B1 LAME license, focusing on maintenance of Airframes (A), Engines (C) and Electrical (E) systems; and the B2 LAME license, focusing on Electrical (E), Instrument (I) and Radio (R) systems. 

Study flexibly in a CASA approved training facility at Jandakot’s Aviation campus that includes a hangar housing a variety of training aeroplanes, engines and equipment including a Boeing B737-200.  Our classrooms, computer labs and online systems will complement module training that is designed in-house by experienced lecturers in collaboration with industry. Progress your journey by attempting required CASA examinations with us. 

CASA Part 66 Module 1 delivers basic to intermediate levels of mathematics knowledge, with a focus on practical problem solving for aircraft maintenance. 

Acquire this knowledge

• Broad mathematical knowledge including multiplication, division, fractions and decimals, plus weights, conversion, ratios, percentages, area and volumes.
• Broad algebra including expressions, multiplication and division, fractions, linear equations, indices and powers, binary and logarithms
• Broad geometry including graphs, trigonometry tables and polar coordinates

Sit the exam only

If  you are someone who is already in the industry and would like to follow a “self-study” and examinations pathway, express your interest to find out available examination dates.

Study for a career in aircraft maintenance or advance your existing aircraft maintenance career with a B1 or B2 Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineer (LAME) license. SM TAFE offers modules to suit the B1 LAME license, focusing on maintenance of Airframes (A), Engines (C) and Electrical (E) systems; and the B2 LAME license, focusing on Electrical (E), Instrument (I) and Radio (R) systems. 

Study flexibly in a CASA approved training facility at Jandakot’s Aviation campus that includes a hangar housing a variety of training aeroplanes, engines and equipment including a Boeing B737-200.  Our classrooms, computer labs and online systems will complement module training that is designed in-house by experienced lecturers in collaboration with industry. Progress your journey by attempting required CASA examinations with us. 

CASA Part 66 Module 2 delivers basic electrical knowledge with applied concepts that relate to aircraft maintenance. 

Acquire this knowledge

• Understand the difference between solid, liquid or gaseous matter and how it relates to energy concepts such as atoms, protons, neutrons, electrons and molecules
• Derive units as equations for length, mass, time, temperature and electrical current
• Mechanics of force, momentum, gravity, stress, strain, elasticity, tension, compression, shear and torsion, kinetics for linear, rotational, periodic motion, vibration and velocity
• Dynamics of fluids including viscosity, compressibility and pressure and thermodynamics including heat definitions, transfer, expansion, gas laws and combustion
• Speed of light, reflection and refraction, plus fibre optics
• Speed of sound and wave motion

Sit the exam only

If  you are someone who is already in the industry and would like to follow a “self-study” and examinations pathway, express your interest to find out available examination dates.

Study for a career in aircraft maintenance or advance your existing aircraft maintenance career with a B1 or B2 Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineer (LAME) license. SM TAFE offers modules to suit the B1 LAME license, focusing on maintenance of Airframes (A), Engines (C) and Electrical (E) systems; and the B2 LAME license, focusing on Electrical (E), Instrument (I) and Radio (R) systems. 

Study flexibly in a CASA approved training facility at Jandakot’s Aviation campus that includes a hangar housing a variety of training aeroplanes, engines and equipment including a Boeing B737-200.  Our classrooms, computer labs and online systems will complement module training that is designed in-house by experienced lecturers in collaboration with industry. Progress your journey by attempting required CASA examinations with us. 

CASA Part 66 Module 3 delivers basic electrical knowledge with applied concepts that relate to aircraft maintenance.

Acquire this knowledge

• Electron, DC motor/generator AC motors and generators theory 
• Generation and sources of electricity and electrical terminology
• DC circuits, resistive, capacitive and inductive circuits methods and their calculations
• Transformers, filters, power and magnetism methods and their calculations 
• AC motors and generators, their construction and operation

Sit the exam only

If  you are someone who is already in the industry and would like to follow a “self-study” and examinations pathway, express your interest to find out available examination dates.

Study for a career in aircraft maintenance or advance your existing aircraft maintenance career with a B1 or B2 Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineer (LAME) license. SM TAFE offers modules to suit the B1 LAME license, focusing on maintenance of Airframes (A), Engines (C) and Electrical (E) systems; and the B2 LAME license, focusing on Electrical (E), Instrument (I) and Radio (R) systems. 

Study flexibly in a CASA approved training facility at Jandakot’s Aviation campus that includes a hangar housing a variety of training aeroplanes, engines and equipment including a Boeing B737-200.  Our classrooms, computer labs and online systems will complement module training that is designed in-house by experienced lecturers in collaboration with industry. Progress your journey by attempting required CASA examinations with us. 

CASA Part 66 Module 4 delivers basic electronic knowledge with applied concepts that relate to aircraft maintenance. 

Acquire this knowledge

• Diodes symbols, characteristics and their materials, configuration and properties
• Transistors symbols, characteristics, properties, construction and operation of simple circuits and multistage circuits
• Integrated circuits - logic, linear and amplifier operations
• Printed circuit boards and their use
• Principles of open and closed loops, servomechanism, analogue, transducer, null, damping, feedback, deadband and construction and operation of synchro system components

Sit the exam only

If  you are someone who is already in the industry and would like to follow a “self-study” and examinations pathway, express your interest to find out available examination dates.

Study for a career in aircraft maintenance or advance your existing aircraft maintenance career with a B1 or B2 Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineer (LAME) license. SM TAFE offers modules to suit the B1 LAME license, focusing on maintenance of Airframes (A), Engines (C) and Electrical (E) systems; and the B2 LAME license, focusing on Electrical (E), Instrument (I) and Radio (R) systems. 

Study flexibly in a CASA approved training facility at Jandakot’s Aviation campus that includes a hangar housing a variety of training aeroplanes, engines and equipment including a Boeing B737-200.  Our classrooms, computer labs and online systems will complement module training that is designed in-house by experienced lecturers in collaboration with industry. Progress your journey by attempting required CASA examinations with us. 

CASA Part 66 Module 6 delivers knowledge of materials and hardware commonly used in aircraft maintenance.

Acquire this knowledge

• Characteristics, properties and identification of ferrous, non-ferrous, composite and non-metallic materials, testing, heat treatment and identifying defects
• Chemical fundamentals, and types and causes of corrosion
• Fasteners, pipes and unions, springs, bearings types and applications
• Transmissions, control cables, electrical cables and connectors types and their applications

Sit the exam only

If  you are someone who is already in the industry and would like to follow a “self-study” and examinations pathway, express your interest to find out available examination dates.

Study for a career in aircraft maintenance or advance your existing aircraft maintenance career with a B1 or B2 Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineer (LAME) license. SM TAFE offers modules to suit the B1 LAME license, focusing on maintenance of Airframes (A), Engines (C) and Electrical (E) systems; and the B2 LAME license, focusing on Electrical (E), Instrument (I) and Radio (R) systems. 

Study flexibly in a CASA approved training facility at Jandakot’s Aviation campus that includes a hangar housing a variety of training aeroplanes, engines and equipment including a Boeing B737-200.  Our classrooms, computer labs and online systems will complement module training that is designed in-house by experienced lecturers in collaboration with industry. Progress your journey by attempting required CASA examinations with us. 

CASA Part 66 Module 7 delivers knowledge about the aircraft maintenance workplace environment. 

Acquire this knowledge

• Safety precautions when working around chemicals or when fire or other accidents occur
• Common hand and power tool types, precision measuring tools, testing and lubrication equipment, their care, use and calibration
• Drawing and using engineering drawings, diagrams and standards
• Fits, clearances and limits for bolts, shafts, bearings and other parts
• Electrical cabling and connector application including crimp tools and co-axial cables, testing and installation
• Rivets, pipes, hoses, springs, bearings, transmissions and control cables and their inspection and testing
• Sheet metal working including welding, brazing, soldering and bonding methods and inspection
• Weighing aircraft, handling and storage, disassembly and repair techniques
• Maintenance planning, procedures and quality control

Sit the exam only

If  you are someone who is already in the industry and would like to follow a “self-study” and examinations pathway, express your interest to find out available examination dates.

Study for a career in aircraft maintenance or advance your existing aircraft maintenance career with a B1 or B2 Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineer (LAME) license. SM TAFE offers modules to suit the B1 LAME license, focusing on maintenance of Airframes (A), Engines (C) and Electrical (E) systems; and the B2 LAME license, focusing on Electrical (E), Instrument (I) and Radio (R) systems. 

Study flexibly in a CASA approved training facility at Jandakot’s Aviation campus that includes a hangar housing a variety of training aeroplanes, engines and equipment including a Boeing B737-200.  Our classrooms, computer labs and online systems will complement module training that is designed in-house by experienced lecturers in collaboration with industry. Progress your journey by attempting required CASA examinations with us. 

CASA Part 66 Module 8 builds upon basic physics knowledge, extending knowledge into knowledge of atmospheric physics using the International Standard Atmosphere (ISA), application to aerodynamics.

Acquire this knowledge

• Concepts including airflow, camber, chord, drag types, pressure, angle of attack, wish in and out, wing shape and aspect ratio, thrust, lift, polar curve and stall
• Flight theory relationships between lift, weight, thrust and drag 
• Flight stability and dynamics including turning theory, performance and gliding; longitudinal, lateral and directional stability

Sit the exam only

If  you are someone who is already in the industry and would like to follow a “self-study” and examinations pathway, express your interest to find out available examination dates.

Learn how to operate CNC machinery

The CNC Operations skill set is for qualified/experienced tradespersons employed in an engineering production or manufacturing environment.

This course has been developed specifically, to suit the role of first-class machinists looking to upskill from manual machining and into Computerised Numerical Control (CNC) Machining and Operations.

You will learn how to Program, Set and Operate CNC machinery allowing you to perform machine operations faster and with high accuracy using the latest CNC equipment.

This skill set will provide existing workers with specialist skills in programming, setting, and operating of CNC machinery that covers a broad range of industries.

Gain these skills

• practical skills and knowledge to analyse, inspect components, edit CNC programs 
• apply workplace health and safety
• perform engineering measurements
• Operate and monitor CNC machines and processes.

Dates

• Next intake March 2022
• Groups begin monthly when there is demand

Express your interest

Do you want a trades career making cherished chairs and loved lounges, solid shelves and custom cabinets?

When you complete the Certificate III in Cabinet Making you'll be ready for a career as a furniture maker or cabinet maker.

Gain these skills:

• use hand and power tools
• operate industrial machinery
• CNC processing centres
• produce angled and curved furniture
• apply decorative surfaces
• select timber
• prepare surfaces
• interpret plans
• measuring
• calculating the right amount of materials for the job
• workplace health and safety

Learn in specialised facilities

South Metropolitan TAFE's Thornlie Campus offers first rate, fully equipped, purpose-built workshops, where students get hands-on practice working in simulation rooms, using advanced equipment and the latest techniques.

Want to learn the art of cake making?

When you complete the Certificate III in Cake and Pastry you will be  able to work as a baker, pastry cook or chef.

Gain these skills

• specialise in cakes and pastries, sponges, biscuits, gateaux, tortes, filled pastries and meringues
• first aid
• food safety programs
• workplace health and safety

We are the only public provider offering training in baking with an on-campus bakehouse that sells students' work to the general public.

Do you want to build a strong career from the ground up?

When you complete the Certificate III in Carpentry and Joinery you will be ready for a career as a domestic or commercial carpenter.

Gain these skills

• use basic carpentry tools, power tools and carpentry materials
• construct a pitched roof, ceiling frames and wooden flooring
• interpret plans
• apply work health and safety requirements

Learn in specialised facilities

South Metropolitan TAFE's Thornlie, Rockingham and Mandurah Campuses offer first rate, fully equipped, purpose-built workshops, where students get hands-on practice working in simulation rooms, using advanced equipment and the latest techniques.

On successful achievement of competency, participants will be issued with nationally recognised statement of attainment to operate a forklift truck. 

Gain these skills:

• check and assess operational capabilities of equipment
• licence to operate a forklift truck

This course is for people who use pesticides with powered and hand-held application equipment. You will gain the skills and knowledge to apply, transport and store chemicals safely.

Gain these skills:

• determine the need for chemical use
• identify the appropriate chemical
• prepare for chemical use according to label and MSDS
• identify conditions for safely applying chemicals
• list procedures for cleaning up following chemical application
• record application details
• determine how to transport and handle chemicals
• identify how to store chemicals safely
• record storage details 
• read and interpret label and MSDS directions for safe transport, handling and storage

Competency units covered in this course:

• OAL84AHCCHM307 Prepare and apply chemicals to control pest, weeds and diseases
• BAP97 AHCPMG301 Control Weeds
• BAN70 AHCCHM304 Transport and Store Chemicals

Upcoming dates

You can start anytime in the online study component of this course. Attendance on campus will be arranged with your lecturer after you enrol.

Ready to build your career in civil construction?

A career in civil construction allows you to design and build complex structures such as major roads, sewer networks, even stadiums. When you complete this course you will be qualified to work in a supervisory position in civil construction.

Three different traineeship streams of this course are available at South Metropolitan TAFE, a "General" stream, an "Open Cut" and a "Stone" stream.

Gain these skills:

• how to be responsible for the quantity and quality of the output of others
• contribute to the development of technical solutions to non-routine problems
• apply management plans to the workplace

Learn in specialised facilities

Our campuses provide students with a hands-on learning environment that feature industry-standard equipment, advanced technology and specialised workshop areas.

Are you looking for a career in construction using the largest tools?

When you complete the Certificate III in Civil Construction (Civil Construction General) you'll be building a career as a mobile plant operator, bridge construction worker, pipe layer, or road construction worker.

SM TAFE provides quality training that serves both employers and employees. Employers gain the benefits of skilled and accredited employees and the employee gains the knowledge, skill, confidence and a sense of pride when completing the qualification. Training for any required gap units can be scheduled to align with workplace operations and may be conducted at the employer’s place of business if required.

Gain these skills:

• Safety on the work site
• Safe handling of materials
• Plant and machinery operation
• Excavation
• Levelling
• Reading plans
• Earthworks
• Communication
• Locate and protect underground services.

All delivery is done off campus at clients' sites or specialised resourced locations in the metropolitan area.

Are you looking for a career in construction laying pipes?

When you complete the Certificate III in Civil Construction (Pipe Laying) you'll be building a career as a mobile plant operator, bridge construction worker, pipe layer, or road construction worker.

SM TAFE provides quality training that serves both employers and employees. Employers gain the benefits of skilled and accredited employees and the employee gains the knowledge, skill, confidence and a sense of pride when completing the qualification. Training for any required gap units can be scheduled to align with workplace operations and may be conducted at the employer’s place of business if required.

Gain these skills:

• Safety on the work site
• Safe handling of materials
• Plant and machinery operation
• Excavation
• Levelling
• Reading plans
• Earthworks
• Communication
• Locate and protect underground services.

All delivery is done off campus at clients' sites or specialised resourced locations in the metropolitan area.