Automotive Collision and Refinishing Foundation

About this programme

Begin your career as an Automotive Collision and Refinishing Technician! Upon completion of this program, you will have the knowledge skills and abilities to repair, adjust, and replace sheet metal and allied parts of automobiles, trucks, and buses. Upon successful completion of the foundation program, students will receive a certificate. Upon graduation, you’ll have a Level One technical training credit and 625 work-based credit hours toward the completion of the Automotive Collision and Refinishing Technician apprenticeship program. As an Automotive Collision and Refinishing Technician, you will be highly employable in many accredited autobody shops. In this program, you will work in a supervised environment and perform hands-on basic auto-collision repairs. You will be given the tools and resources to utilize proper safety techniques, correct terminology, and a variety of vehicle repair methods which are industry standard within in the auto-collision industry: For up-to-date technical training dates at CNC visit the Trades Training BC website . An apprenticeship is a formal written agreement between an employer, an employee and SkilledTradesBC (STBC). Typically, 80–85% of an apprenticeship is work-based training; the rest is technical training in the classroom/shop. Most apprenticeships take four years. To earn a certificate or ticket, apprentices must complete both work-based training and technical training, including examinations. After working as apprentices for the period specified by SkilledTradesBC, graduates can write the Interprovincial Red Seal Examination.