Certificate III in Carpentry

Program Overview

This three-year apprenticeship program combines on-the-job training with classroom instruction, equipping students with the skills to read plans, comply with building regulations, and perform various carpentry tasks. The program includes 34 units of competency, covering core areas such as safety, tools, measurements, and construction techniques, as well as elective units for specialization. Upon completion, graduates are qualified as carpenters and can pursue careers in construction, contracting, or management.

Program Outline

Outline:

Program Content:

• Read plans
• Comply with building regulations

Program Structure:

• Apprentices are employed full-time and attend campus for 7 or 8 block weeks per year (over three years) for a mixture of practical assessment tasks and theory.
• To achieve this qualification, you must demonstrate competency in a total of 34 units of competency: 27 core and 7 electives.

Individual Modules with Descriptions:

Core Units:

• Apply WHS requirements, policies and procedures in the construction industry
• Use carpentry tools and equipment
• Work effectively and sustainably in the construction industry
• Carry out measurements and calculations
• Conduct workplace communication
• Read and interpret plans, specifications and drawings for carpentry work
• Work safely at heights
• Erect and dismantle restricted height scaffolding
• Handle carpentry materials
• Identify construction work hazards and select risk control strategies
• Carry out setting out
• Apply basic levelling procedures
• Install flooring systems
• Carry out concreting to simple forms
• Erect and dismantle formwork for footings and slabs on ground
• Carry out levelling operations
• Construct, assemble and install timber external stairs
• Carry out general demolition of minor building structures
• Construct and erect wall frames
• Erect roof trusses
• Construct ceiling frames
• Construct pitched roofs
• Construct eaves
• Install exterior cladding
• Perform construction calculations to determine carpentry material requirements
• Install lining, panelling and moulding
• Install windows and doors

Elective Units:

• Carry out hand excavation
• Construct, erect and dismantle formwork for stairs and ramps
• Set up, operate and maintain indirect action powder-actuated power tools
• Frame and fit wet area fixtures
• Operate elevated work platforms up to 11 metres

Careers:

• Carpenter
• Self-employed contractor
• Supervisor
• Leading hand
• Manager