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Apprenticeships & Traineeships

Apprenticeship, Traineeship and Pre-Apprenticeship courses at SuniTAFE are available across a range of industry and trade areas.

SuniTAFE can give you the practical skills and knowledge you need for your career.

An apprenticeship or traineeship is a partnership between you, your employer and SuniTAFE.

Your employer will provide you real workplace experience and teach you skills on-the-job while SuniTAFE provides formal training.

If you’re still at school you can undertake a school-based apprenticeship or traineeship while completing VCE or VCAL.

An apprenticeship or traineeship gives you the chance to build transferable skills that attract employers, making you more job-ready.

Apprenticeships and traineeships can commence at any time. Every apprentice and trainee must have a business willing to employ them and a Training Contract, which is organised through a local Australian Apprenticeship Support Network (AASN) provider.

SuniTAFE has great industry partners and access to some of the latest technology to teach into the future.

Information for Apprentices Earn an income while learning a trade! Information for Employers Train your apprentices with Australia’s leading training provider. Apprenticeship Support Officer The Apprenticeship Support Program assists apprentices to navigate the apprenticeship system as well as assisting them resolve issues as they arise.

Our Apprentice & Traineeship Training Facilities

SuniTAFE’s Mildura and Swan Hill Campuses have dedicated trade workshops and learning spaces fully equipped with the latest tools, technology, machinery and vehicles to enhance and support practical training experiences.

  • Hospitality

    The Hospitality Department at the Mildura Campus boasts two commercial kitchens and a training restaurant which is open to the public. The facilities include commercial ovens, dishwashers, coffee machine, stoves, slicers, stick blenders and servery spaces. You can gain practical experience and skills which forms part of the assessment for front and back of house courses.

  • Building and plumbing

    Dedicated building and plumbing workshops are equipped with tools, technology, workbenches, equipment and practical spaces including a sandpit and building frames/roofing.

  • Light and Heavy Automotive

    Light automotive workshops are equipped with tools, technology and equipment including: Test lane, wheel alignment, scanning tools, tyre changers.

    SuniTAFE has a long history of training for the heavy automotive sector, beginning delivery from the Swan Hill Campus in 2000. Due to delivery at capacity in Swan Hill, SuniTAFE formed an industry working party to establish heavy automotive training in Mildura. After successful consultation and industry support, a dedicated training space opened at the Mildura Campus in 2020. The workshop boasts the latest technology and equipment including: common rail diesel diagnostic system, medium-duty Isuzu FVD 165-260 Auto truck, DD13 470HP Detroit diesel engine.

  • Engineering

    The Engineering workshops have extensive equipment including: MIG and TIG welders, Computer Numerical Controlled machines including CNC lathes, CNC machines, CNC plasma cutting machine.

  • Horticulture & Agriculture

    Sustainable, Manageable, Accessible, Rural Technologies (SMART) – The SuniTAFE SMART Farm plans to be the leading training provider in SMART Horticulture farming, combining best practice with cutting-edge technology to develop the people of today into the workforce of tomorrow.

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