Course Location and Contact Information

Course Description

Trainees are employed by wall and floor tilers and train on-site with their employer and off-site with a Registered Training Organisation e.g. NMIT.

Trainees work on full size projects of varying degrees, in NMIT's specially designed facilities. Training identifies and underpins the underlying requirements to collect, analyse and organise information: communicate ideas and information, plan and organise activities, work with others and in teams, use mathematical ideas and techniques, solve problems and use technology required within the industry.

Career Opportunities

Graduates of this course may gain employment in the building industry as a wall and floor tiler sub contractor or contractor.

Course Duration

Schooling is full time consisting of 16 x 40 hr (1 week) blocks over six months.

Course Commencement Dates

February

Entrance Requirements

There are no formal entrance requirements. Applications from sponsored students are invited at any time. Places are also available for a limited number of unsponsored applicants. Applicants will be advised of interviews and intake tests which will be arranged as required. 

A wall and floor tiler/builder who wishes to sponsor a student must give written notice to NMIT that he or she intends to apprentice the student when they successfully complete their sixteen week program. Every effort is made by teaching staff to find employment for unsponsored students.

Application Procedures

Apply directly to NMIT.

Skills Recognition - Exemptions/Transfers

Applicants will receive exemptions/transfers where they can:

• Provide evidence of successful completion of the same module/competency at another Registered Training Organisation (RTO) or within another accredited course
• Provide evidence of successful completion of an equivalent module/competency at another RTO or within another accredited course
• Demonstrate and/or provide evidence of competence via Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL).

Applications should be made directly to the course co-ordinator.

Pathways to Further Study

All units of competency satisfactorily completed during the pre-apprenticeship give the participant direct exemptions/transfers in the Certificate III in General Construction (Wall and Floor Tiling) Apprenticeship.

Course Outline

To successfully obtain the wall & floor tiling pre-apprenticeship students must demonstrate competence in all of the following competencies:

Core Units

VBP521 Wall and Floor Tiling Hand and Power Tools (40 hrs)
VBP522 Tiling Substrates (48 hrs)
VBP523 Tiling Adhesives (96 hrs)
VBP524 Wall Tiling (126 hrs)
VBP525 Floor Tiling (126 hrs)
VBQM697 Workplace Safety and Industry Induction (40 hrs)
VBQM698 Workplace Procedures for Environmental Sustainability (16 hrs)
VBQM699 Basic First Aid (8 hrs)
VBQM700 Building Structures (8 hrs)
VBQM701 Calculations for the Building Industry (20 hrs)
VBQM702 Career Studies (16 hrs)
VBQM703 Communications for the Building Industry (20 hrs)
VBQM704 Introduction to Scaffolding (24 hrs)
VBQM705 Levelling (8 hrs)
VBQM706 Quality Principles for the Building Industry (8 hrs)
VBQM707 Safe Hand & Use of Plant/Power Tools (16 hrs)
VBQM708 Workplace Documents and Plans (20 hrs)

Total Hours - 640

Assessment Methods

Student assessment will combine progressive testing and internal assessment.

Materials

All materials are supplied as part of enrolment fees. Equipment lists are available from the Building Structures & Services Department.

Qualification

As part of the Australian Qualifications Framework this program is nationally recognised.  On successful completion students will be awarded the Certificate II in Building & Construction (Wall and Floor Tiling).

Links

The Victorian Government makes a significant contribution to these programs.