
Certificate III in Automotive Body Repair Technology course provides the role of people who serve a wide scale of duties when repairing and maintaining the body of cars, heavy vehicles, and other vehicles in the automotive repair and service industry.
Complete and hit high customer anticipations and provide outstanding outcomes to destroyed or repaired automotive vehicles when you acquire the talents to become a panel beater. Inspire customers with your restoration and repair methods, whether a '71 HQ Monaro or a modern-day SUV.
Candidates will acquire aptitudes through valuable and direct work in manufactured workplace circumstances. They will be able to know different ways to fix vehicle body elements, frames, and chassis and repair structural impairment. Candidates will learn about the following:
A$18,000 to A$25,000. The fee range can change from time to time.
120-130 weeks Full time
August and December. Some colleges will offer April and October intakes as well.
The skills and understanding of the automotive technology course help you to find employment as following:
The unit explains the achievement outcomes needed to listen to environmental and sustainability best practices, involving following with authorised work area processes and environmental rules and as well as the following sustainability practices that might decrease the environmental impact of work practices as well as the outputs.
The unit explains the ability as well as the talent needed to source, interpret, and add repairs needs from mechanical work area instructions as well as task orders. It includes following worksheets as well as work orders when conducting vehicle repairs.
The unit explains the ability as well as the talent needed to recognise and follow safety as well as emergency processes in a mechanical work area. It includes safety processes to be obeyed when using work area hand tools and hand-held power tools, fixed equipment, and as well as chemicals, and when running vehicles as well as machinery. It involves the individuals responsibility for safety as well as emergency responses in the events of a major accident or incident.
The unit explains the achievement outcomes needed to remove, refit as well as assess the operations of electronic parts following body repairs activities. Electronic parts involve headlights, taillights, mirrors, antennas, sensors, actuators, and vehicle, vessel and finally machinery control modules. These parts are not an integral part of vehicle controller area network data bus typography and do not need programming processes following fitting activities.
The unit explains the ability as well as the talent needed to assess, charge, change, retest and as well as securing a vast as well as a wide range of mechanical batteries, involving vehicle or apparatus jump-starting processes. It includes preparing for the work, searching and assessing the batteries to confirm serviceability, charging, jump-starting, removing and replace, and as well as undertaking the final retesting of batteries, as well as finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the ability as well as the talent needed to choose, use, maintain as well as storing tools and equipment in a mechanical work area.
The unit explains the achievement outcomes needed to search, repair, and align chassis, frame, and parts to vehicles. It includes preparing for the work, choosing, and using specialist tools as well as the needed equipment, recognising damage, taking pre-repair measurements, carrying out repairs, taking post-repair measurements according to OEM or established agency specifications, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the achievement outcomes needed to achieve pre-repair activities by removing and storing vehicle body parts. It includes preparing for the work, choosing and using specialist tools, and equipment, listening to work area instructions in removing, tagging as well as storing vehicle body parts as part of pre-repair needs, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the achievement outcomes needed to repair vehicle misalignment. It includes preparing for the work, choosing, and using specialist tools as well as equipment, setting up vehicle body measuring equipment, taking measurements, recognising and repairing vehicle body misalignment to pre-paint condition, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the ability as well as the talent needed to remove, reassemble and align vehicle body panels as part of vehicle body activities. The unit includes preparing for the work, choosing and using specialist tools and equipment, following OEM or established agency specifications and work area processes. It also includes conducting a final alignment search, and as well as finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the ability as well as the talent needed to repair vehicle body panels using filler. The unit includes preparing for the work, choosing and using specialist tools as well as equipment, recognising body filler type and specifications, estimating and mixing body filler and adding to panels, finishing repairs to pre-paint condition, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the ability as well as the talent needed to remove and replace vehicle welded panels and panel sections. The unit includes preparing for the work, choosing and using specialist tools and as well as specialist equipment, removing, repairing, aligning and welding major vehicle panels as well as sections. It also involve completing repairs to pre-paint condition and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the knowledge as well as the skills needed to repair bonded vehicle body panels and structures using an adhesive attachments method. The unit includes preparing for the work, choosing and using specialist tools as well as the needed equipment, removing bonded structural damage, repairing panel sections, adding approved adhesives and realigning the structural repairs, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the ability as well as the talent needed to search a vehicle for damages and confirm suitable repairs processes. The unit includes preparing for the work, choosing, and using measuring equipment, searching damages, confirming repair needs, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the ability as well as the talent needed to locate and add OEM or established agency recommended repair processes during vehicle or part repairs work. The unit includes preparing for the work, searching the vehicles damages, and recognising repairs needs according to the OEM or established agency’s specifications, advancing a repair plan, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the knowledge as well as the skills needed to conduct advanced GMAW to replace structural as well as non-structural vehicle body sections during vehicle body repairs work. It includes preparing for the work, choosing and using GMAW equipment, operating GMAW, choosing and using suitable and PPE, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the ability as well as the talent needed to conduct spot welding to replace structural and non-structural vehicle body sections according to OEM or established agency processes. It includes preparing for the work, choosing and using spot welding equipment, adjusting spot welder, operating spot welders, choosing as well as using suitable PPE, searching and assessing weld quality, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
Specialist Elective Units
The unit explains the achievement outcomes needed to remove and replace vehicle SRS units and assemblies. It includes preparing for the work, choosing, and using specialist tools as well as equipment to deactivate, remove and replace SRS parts, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the achievement outcomes needed to remove and replace adhesive attached parts on all vehicles. It includes preparing for the work, choosing, and using tools as well as equipment, removing and replacing mouldings, badges, transfers and as well as decals, choosing adhesive according to builder specifications, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the achievement outcomes needed to repair vehicles interior and as well as exterior thermoplastic panels as well as parts. It includes preparing for the work, choosing, and using specialist thermoplastic repairs tools and materials, repairing thermoplastic parts to pre-paint conditions, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the achievement outcomes needed to repair the structural damages of vehicle body parts using straightening and replacement techniques. It includes preparing for the work, choosing, and using specialist tools as well as specialist equipment, fitting, aligning and welding structural sections, completing repairs to pre-paint condition, undertaking a final search of body repairs work, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the achievement outcomes needed to set up and use a universal measuring system to also measure vehicle chassis misalignment at somewhere in between pre- and post-repair intervals. It includes preparing for the work, choosing and using specialist tools and specialist equipment, setting measuring equipment, measuring vehicle upper and underbody in three dimensions, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the achievement outcomes needed to conduct vehicle sectional repairs as well as replace parts, involving structural and non-structural vehicle parts. It includes preparing for the work, choosing, and using specialist tools as well as specialist equipment, choosing repairs methods, removing damaged parts, repairing damaged sections, replacing, and aligning new or repaired pats, welding and completing to pre-paint condition, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the ability as well as the talent needed to achieve non-structural vehicle panels repairs to pre-paint condition. The unit includes preparing for the work, choosing and using specialist tools as well as specialist equipment, repairing panels according to builder specifications and work area processes, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the ability as well as the talent needed to repair deep dents and hail damaged body panels using PDR procedures. The unit includes preparing for the work, choosing and using specialist tools as well as specialist equipment, repairing vehicle panels to pre-damage condition using PDR methods, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the ability as well as the talent needed to conduct metal completing, incorporating heat shrinking, to repair the vehicle body panels. The unit includes preparing for the work, choosing, and using specialist tools as well as specialist equipment, setting an oxyacetylene plant, panels beating and file completion vehicle panels to pre-paint condition without using body fillers, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the ability as well as the talent needed to repair structural damages on a vehicle, using riveting methods. The unit includes preparing for the work, choosing, and using specialist tools and specialist equipment, repairing or changing riveted panels, involving straightening, realignment and as well as attachment processes, finishing repairs to pre-paint condition, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the ability as well as the talent needed to repair vehicle aluminium body panels without the usage of body filler. The unit includes preparing for the work, choosing and using specialist tools and as well as specialist equipment, involving TIG as well as MIG welding equipment, repairing vehicles aluminium body panels, completing repairs to pre-paint condition, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the ability as well as the talent needed to follow body filler processes to repair vehicles aluminium body panels. The unit includes preparing for the work, choosing, and using specialist tools and as well as specialist equipment, cleaning panel surfaces, recognising suitable body filler types, estimating body filler usage, mixing, and adding body filler to aluminium panels, finishing repairs to pre-paint condition, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the ability as well as the talent needed to locate, recognise and repair HSS vehicle parts, involving advanced and ultra-high strength steel. The unit includes preparing for the work, choosing and using specialist tools as well as specialist equipment, admitting recommended repairs process from OEM or established agency. It also involve choosing repair processes and recommended welding techniques , removing and changing HSS parts, completing HSS repairs to pre-paint condition, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the achievement outcomes needed to conduct soft soldering of vehicle parts. It includes preparing for the work, conducting soft soldering processes, achieving post-repair assessments, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the achievement outcomes needed to conduct lead wiping and lead filling repairs to damaged body parts. It includes preparing for the work, choosing, and using specialist tools and lead wiping equipment, cleaning, and tinning metal surfaces, heating as well as adding lead and lead wiping to finish repairs, completing repairs to pre-paint condition, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the achievement outcomes needed to repair vehicle body panels and parts that have been damaged by corrosion. It includes preparing for the work, choosing, and using specialist tools and specialist equipment, removing corroded damages, fabricating replacements parts, fitting and welding vehicle body parts, completing repairs to pre-paint condition, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the ability as well as the talent needed to conduct metal completion, incorporating heat shrinking, to repair vehicle body panels. The unit includes preparing for the work, choosing and using specialist tools and as well a specialist equipment, setting a oxyacetylene plant, panels beating and file completion vehicle panels to pre-paint without the usage of body filler, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the achievement outcomes needed to fabricant wooden parts, plugs or mould for the usage on vehicles with wooden body frames or parts, using wood materials and templates. It includes preparing for the work, choosing, and using wood materials and wood working equipment to fabricant wooden parts, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the achievement outcomes needed to measure, mark out, cut as well as fabricate mechanical or marine trim parts to given specifications. It includes preparing for the work, choosing, and using specialist tools and specialist equipment, checking material quality, estimating materials quantity, assembling and trimming parts, recognising fabrication faults, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the ability as well as the talent needed to fabricant parts for mechanical application, using composite materials such as fibreglass as well as carbon fibre. It includes preparing for the work, choosing, and using specialist tools as well as specialist equipment, recognising composite materials, estimating material quantities, mixing and adding recommended composite materials, completing parts to work area and customer specifications, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the ability as well as the talent needed to measure, advance patterns and templates, and fabricant body panels and parts. It includes preparing for the work, choosing, and using specialist tools as well as specialist equipment, choosing and cutting materials according to patterns, templates, and specifications, preparing cut edges, fabrication panels, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the ability as well as the talent needed to conduct welding operations using TIG welding. It includes preparing for the work, choosing, and using Tungsten Inert Gas welding equipment as well as techniques or methods, setting gas flow compression and welder setting, electing and using suitable PPE, achieving welding to given specifications, searching and assessing weld quality, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit of competency defines the ability as well as the talent needed to prepare materials and achieve routine oxy fuel gas welding of mild/low carbon steel and cast iron where the welding is not needed to meet and Australian standards or equal.
The unit explains the achievement outcomes needed to safely use load shifting equipment.
The unit explains the achievement outcomes needed to mount and install assembled parts to as chasses or frame for example, vehicle cabins, sleeper, or vehicle bodies.
The unit explains the achievement outcomes needed to add heat using induction procedures when repairing vehicle chassis and parts. It includes preparing for the work, choosing and using specialist tools and specialist equipment, recognising damages, operating heat induction equipment according to builder specifications, finishing repairs to OEM or established agency’s specifications, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the achievement outcomes need to set up and use a universal calibrating system to calibrate vehicle chassis misalignment at pre and as well as post-repair intervals. It includes preparing for the work, choosing and using specialist tools as well as specialist equipment, setting measuring equipment, measuring vehicle upper and underbody in three dimensions, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the ability as well as the talent needed to repair structural damages on a vehicle, using riveting methods. The unit includes preparing for the work, choosing and using specialist tools as well as specialist equipment, repairing or changing riveted panels, involving straightening, realignment as well as attachment processes, completing repairs to pre-paint condition, and finishing work area procedure and documentation.
The unit explains the ability as well as the talent needed to repair vehicle aluminium body panels without the usage of body filler. The unit includes preparing for the work, choosing and using specialist aluminium repair tools as well as equipment, involving TIG and MIG welding equipment, repairing vehicles aluminium body panels, completion of repairs to pre-paint condition, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the ability as well as the talent needed to prepare vehicle substrates for recompilation by removing surface rust as well as scale and adding primers and sealers before the final recompletion. The unit includes preparing for the work, choosing and using specialist tools as well as specialist equipment, choosing and using materials, cleaning vehicle substrate surfaces according to builder specifications, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the ability as well as the talent needed to conduct welding operations using TIG welding. It includes preparing for the work, choosing and using Tungsten Inert Gas welding techniques as well as equipment, setting gas flow compressions and welder settings, choosing and using suitable PPE, achieving welding to given particulars, searching and assessing weld quality, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit of competency shows the ability as well as the talent needed to achieve basic penetrant assessment processes and methods in a vast range of industrial applications involving fabrications, structures, and parts across a wide and vast range of industries. It is restricted to basic visible dye or procedure penetrant line techniques.
The unit explains the ability as well as the talent needed to work cautiously heights in the resources and infrastructure industries.
The unit explains the achievement outcomes needed to read mechanical work area documentation in order to achieve routine inspection, service and repair work. It includes reading texts and manuals, as well as recognising and adding key information.
The unit explains the ability as well as the talent needed to recognise and resolve routine basic problems commonly encountered in a mechanical work area. It includes advancing and implementing conclusions to recognised problems and reporting on the efficiency.
The unit explains the achievement outcomes needed to work efficiently with a vast range of people in a mechanical work area. It includes recognising own and other’s job roles, communicating appropriately, working in shard work, and dealing with issues, problems as well as conflicts.
The unit explains the achievement outcomes needed to deactivate and reactivate HEVs and PHEVs. It includes making sure that the vehicle HV RESS is also isolated before starting any assessments or diagnose before the energy storage system is reactivated. Importance is placed upon the unit on adding rechargeable energy storage system and SELV electronic safety processes.
The unit explains the ability as well as the talent needed to deactivate and reactivate BEVs. It includes making sure that the vehicle HV RESS is isolated before any services or repairs. It also includes aligning vehicle systems that might need resetting once the energy storage system is reactivated. Importance is placed upon the unit on adding RESS and SELV electronic safety processes.
The unit explains the ability as well as the talent needed to add knowledge and key features of ADAS when undertaking a pre-repair scan of a vehicle. It includes recognising autonomous driver assistance systems parts, undertaking an assessment scan of the ADAS present to recognise the damages for repairs, and assessing their own knowledge of ADAS, escalating work to external repairers. The unit doesn’t includes giving explicit repairs to the ADAS or the clearing of any assessment trouble codes related to these systems, which are to be undertaken by established repairers with the needed equipment and builder particulars.
The unit explains the achievement outcomes needed to clean and detail vehicles as well as parts before customer deliveries. It includes preparing for the work, choosing, and using cleaning products, materials, cleaning tools and as well as equipment, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the achievement outcomes needed to remove and replace automotive units and assemblies to facilitate vehicle body repairs activities. It includes preparing for the work, choosing, and using specialist tools as well as specialist equipment, removing and replacing automotive units according to OEM processes and work area processes, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the achievement outcomes needed to service air pressures, compressor regulators, water traps, filters as well as air lines. It includes cleaning and replacing filters, making needed adjustments, and finishing work area procedures and documentation as part of the day-to-day maintenance of the systems.
The unit explains the ability as well as the talent needed to position and install sunroofs in vehicles or machinery. It includes preparing for the work, choosing tools as well as equipment, installing vehicle sunroof to builder particulars and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the ability as well as the talent needed to repair shallow dents and hail damaged body panels using PDR procedures. The unit includes preparing for the work, choosing and using specialist tools, repairing vehicle panels to pre-damage conditions using PDR techniques, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the ability as well as the talent needed to assess, service and repair air pressures, and associated parts. The unit includes preparing for the work, cleaning, and replacing filters, adjusting and needed repairs according to work area instructions, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the ability as well as the talent needed to locate, recognise and repair HAS vehicle parts, involving developed and ultra-high aluminium. The unit includes preparing for the work, choosing, and using specialist tools as well as specialist equipment and determining recommended repairs process from OEM or established agency. It also includes choosing repair processes and recommended welding techniques, removing and changing HAS parts, completing HAS repairs to pre-paint condition, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the achievement outcomes needed to add rust prevention and sound deadening materials to vehicle body parts. It includes preparing for the work, choosing and using specialist application tools as well as equipment, choosing and adding materials according to builder particulars and caution data instructions, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit includes the ability as well as the talent needed to repair parts on vehicle bodies using composite materials. It includes preparing for the work, choosing and using specialist tools as well as equipment, recognising suitable composite materials, estimating material quantities, mixing and adding recommended composite materials to repair parts according to work area and customer particulars, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the achievement outcomes needed to remove and replace seats and fittings of vehicle and vessels according to builder particulars removal as well as replacement instructions. It includes preparing for the work, choosing and using specialist tools as well as specialist equipment, storing seats and fittings, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the ability as well as the talent needed to choose and use adhesives with a vast range of mechanical and marine surfaces. It includes preparing for the work, choosing and using tools and specialist equipment, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the achievement outcomes needed to remove, replace, fit and assess non-electronic vehicle parts and accessories. It includes preparing for the work, choosing and using specialist tools as well as specialist equipment, removing, installing and assessing non-electronic parts and accessories during vehicle servicing or vehicle repairs, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the achievement outcomes needed to set up a oxyacetylene plant, following caution needs, adjust gauges to recommended working compressors, and carry out thermal heating and cutting. It includes preparing for the work, recognising and adjusting flame appropriate to thermal heating as well as cutting needs, choosing and using suitable PPE, achieving oxyacetylene thermal heating as well as cutting to given instructions, and finishing work area procedures and documentation.
The unit explains the ability as well as the talent needed to undertake task activities in compliance with organisational processes that prevent and control infections. It includes implementing standards and transmission-based cautions, recognising infection hazards, and evaluating and responding to infection risks.
The unit of competency defines the ability as well as the talent needed to elevate as well as moving materials manually or using basic manual handling equipment in a vast range of environments.
The unit of competency defines the ability as well as the talent needed to work efficiently in building as well as engineering work situations, involving planning routine tasks and participating in and following WHS processes. This unit adds to working either individually or in a group situations and involves contributing to task-related team activities in a building or engineering work area.
The unit of competency covers the ability as well as the talent needed to access, organise and communicate information relayed to production, maintenance or associated procedures or work that add in building, engineering or any related environments.
The unit of competency defines the ability as well as the talent needed to use a vast range of hand tools for a variety of general engineering applications.
The unit explains the ability as well as the talent needed to carry out individual and small team work talent instruction using existing support materials and demonstration of work talent as a training strategy; and evaluate the success of training and one’s own training achievement. It focuses on the training being driven by the work procedure and context.
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