Heavy Automotive Plant

This study area covers many specialist skills required by the automotive, smash repair, and coating industries. From removing, replacing, realigning, repairing and spray painting vehicle body panels, sections and fittings on all types of vehicles, to surface care of interior and exterior of vehicles. Specialist areas cover automotive glazing and surface preparation and coating for the oil and gas, marine, plant construction, and defence industries.

Learn skills in diagnosing, servicing, repairing and overhauling engines and associated engine components, setting, operating and monitoring specialist machines, and routine oxy acetylene welding.

These courses can provide you with skills and knowledge to perform a broad range of tasks on a variety of light vehicles in the automotive service and repair industry. These qualifications will help you gain skills and knowledge within an automotive service and repair business related to servicing and repairing components and systems of cars, motorcycles, and heavy vehicles.

Learn how to check and repair dump trucks, bulldozers, loaders, drilling rigs and heavy plant machinery. Develop skills and knowledge on cooling systems, dismantling, replacing and assembling mechanical equipment, inspecting and servicing engines, steering and suspension systems and carrying out repairs to single electrical circuits.

Automotive electricians inspect, service and repair the electrical components of our vehicles. When you undertake a training pathway in the automotive electrical field you can learn skills in carrying out vehicle electrical/electronic diagnostics and repair, installing and repairing vehicle lighting and audio and wiring and installing ancillary electronic control unit systems.

Trades people in this industry manufacture, modify and repair a wide range of purpose built heavy and light commercial vehicle bodies, trailers, chassis and components relating to caravans, buses, vans, tipping bodies, cabs, semi-trailers, mining vehicles, heavy haulage, light vehicles, tankers, recovery vehicles and personnel carriers.