Available at: Swinton Campus

Programme Overview: This qualification develops skilled artisans capable of manufacturing, assembling, and maintaining precision mechanical components and machinery across diverse industrial sectors.

Duration: 3,5 Years | Credits: 548 |SAQA ID: 94020

What You'll Learn

• Precision machining techniques
• Blueprint reading and technical drawing interpretation
• Lathe and milling machine operation
• Quality control and measurement techniques
• Assembly and maintenance procedures
• CNC machine operation basics

Minimum Entry Requirements

• NQF Level 1 with Mathematics and Science (the college may recognise RPL against the entry requirements)
• Strong mathematical and mechanical aptitude
• Attention to detail and precision

Career Opportunities

• Manufacturing industries
• Automotive sector
• Aerospace industry
• Mining equipment maintenance
• Tool and die making

Certification: QCTO Occupational Certificate leading to Red Seal Trade Certificate upon successful completion of External Integrated Summative Assessment (EISA)

Financial Aid: NSFAS funding available for qualifying students.

Knowledge Modules

• Basic engineering theory
• Fitting Theory
• Machining Theory
  

Total number of credits for Knowledge Modules: 106 Credits.

Practical Skill Modules

• Fabricate simple components or work pieces using basic hand skills and hand tools
• Fabricate components or work pieces using power tools or machinery
• Dissemble, clean and inspect mechanical sub-assemblies
• Replace components and assemble mechanical sub-assemblies and machines
• Do fault finding on mechanical sub-assemblies and machines
• Repair mechanical sub-assemblies and machines
• Install and commission mechanical sub-assemblies and machines
• Overhaul mechanical sub-assemblies and machines
• Produce simple components by setting up and attending to the operation an engineering machine
• Produce components of intermediate complexity by performing engineering machining operations
• Perform complex machining operations

Total number of credits for Practical Skills Modules: 122 Credits.

Work Experience Modules

• Fabrication processes in an engineering workshop
• Routine mechanical component and machine maintenance processes
• Maintenance planning and communication processes
• Repair mechanical faults on mechanical sub-assemblies and machines
• Overhauling processes in an engineering workshop
• Structured planning and communication processes in the workplace
• Machining processes to design specifications of a range of work pieces from different materials
• Engineering workshop control processes

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