The building industry is not just about manning the tools on a worksite, and offers a wide range of para-professional career choices that include managing building sites, inspecting buildings for compliance and designing buildings for developers.

With strong links to industry and offering a range of nationally recognised qualifications, TasTAFE delivers a range of industry-relevant courses, including Construction Management, Engineering Drafting, Building Design and Building Surveying.

Ranging from Certificate IV to Advanced Diploma level, these courses are delivered online which enables you to study where and when you want to.

Construction Management will see you interpreting plans, ordering and costing construction materials, managing timelines including trade sequencing and overseeing the construction phase of a building project. You’ll also learn how to keep regular and accurate records, and identify building site WHS requirements.

If your interests lie with Engineering Drafting and a career in an engineering office or architectural practice, you will learn to develop your skills using CAD software to produce technical drawings to scale, and learn how to apply standard drawing conventions which may be used to draft everything from buildings, structures and civil infrastructure to mechanical and technical details.

In Building Design, you will use your design and drafting skills to creatively meet client needs and design and document construction plans for submission to permit authorities and builders. You will learn how to combine site analysis, planning scheme guidelines and building codes to design a wide range of small-scale building projects, including houses and commercial buildings.

If compliance is more your ‘thing,’ an Advanced Diploma in Building Surveying will equip you with the skills you need to examine plans for compliance certification, inspect buildings throughout the construction phase, and provide building compliance audits and consultation services in relation to building code and Australian standards compliance.

So, what are you waiting for? Contact us today to see how we can help you take your Science or Engineering career to the next level!

TasTAFE’s Laboratory Operations qualifications provide the opportunity for you to develop your scientific knowledge and gain valuable hands-on laboratory skills and techniques to conduct tests and sampling in a variety of industry sectors.

Designed to give you the skills you need to seek work in a Laboratory environment, these qualifications are ideal if you have a strong scientific background, are a university graduate seeking practical laboratory training, or if you are an existing laboratory worker looking to gain a formal qualification for the work you already do.

Our courses focus on developing your practical laboratory skills through both the simulated laboratory environment at TasTAFE and industry work placement/s –where you can gain vocational experience as well as build your professional network within the Laboratory industry.

Successful completion of these qualifications will equip you with the practical skills and knowledge you need to be employed as a Laboratory Technical Officer in a wide range of manufacturing industries including food, mineral or paper production or in service industries such as medical, government, research and school laboratories.