New Zealand Certificate in Construction Trade Skills

Skills Update Training and Education Group

Subject area

Building not elsewhere classified

Qualification

Check out Fees Free to see whether you are eligible for a year of fees-free study or two years industry training. Contact your provider to confirm your study options meet the criteria.

Entry requirements

None.

About the course

What can I expect out of this qualification?

The purpose of this qualification is to provide the wider construction trades sector with work-ready people able to enter the construction trades as a labourer or an apprentice who have developed essential transferable skills and underpinning knowledge applicable to a wide range of construction-related trades.

This qualification is suitable for people new to, or intending to enter, the construction trades sector.

The strands recognise the knowledge and skills required of entrants to allied trades, or the carpentry or joinery trades. The allied trades include painting and decorating, roofing, interior systems and exterior plastering.

Graduates will be able to work in the construction trades sector with limited supervision having gained skills and knowledge in health and safety, trade mathematics, hand tools and project work related to different aspects of the construction industry.

What graduates earn

Graduates who studied Building at this level can earn:

$46,000

Median earnings one year after study

$50,000

Median earnings two years after study

$58,000

Median earnings five years after study

Status one year after study

Employment rate two years after study

69%

Employment rate two years after study

Data as at November 2022

Contact details

Main Campus Office

Phone: (09) 255 1464
Fax: (09) 275 9571
Email: qateam@skillsupdate.co.nz
Web: http://www.skillsupdate.co.nz

Please contact the provider for details of where this qualification is offered.

Sources

NZQA supplies course information based on material from the provider.

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