Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics: where your skills can take you
Diagnose, adjust, repair, or overhaul automotive vehicles.
Usual study level (from US data): Cert IV or Diploma (TAFE; if you have experience, recognition of prior learning can shorten it) · Some specialties need a state licence or certificate (for example electrical work) — check your state
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Three moves that use what a automotive service technicians and mechanic already knows
Ranked by how much of the job's skills and knowledge carries over. Each one says what the move usually costs in study.
Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics
🧰 Your current job already uses repairing things, finding the cause of a fault, keeping equipment in good order and watching gauges and readings.
🎓 No more study. Your current level of study is usually enough. The most common level in the US is some college, a certificate or an associate degree (68%).
🪪 Some specialties need a state licence or certificate (for example electrical work) — check your state
🔎 Find courses for this job on training.gov.au ↗
Diagnose, adjust, repair, or overhaul mobile mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic equipment, such as cranes, bulldozers, graders, and conveyors, used in construction, logging, and mining.
Motorcycle Mechanics
🧰 Your current job already uses repairing things, finding the cause of a fault, keeping equipment in good order and watching gauges and readings.
🎓 No more study. Your current level of study is usually enough. The most common level in the US is some college, a certificate or an associate degree (64%).
🪪 Some specialties need a state licence or certificate (for example electrical work) — check your state
🔎 Find courses for this job on training.gov.au ↗
Diagnose, adjust, repair, or overhaul motorcycles, scooters, mopeds, dirt bikes, or similar motorized vehicles.
Electric Motor, Power Tool, and Related Repairers
🧰 Your current job already uses repairing things, finding the cause of a fault, keeping equipment in good order and watching gauges and readings.
🎓 No more study. Your current level of study is usually enough. The most common level in the US is some college, a certificate or an associate degree (67%).
🪪 Some specialties need a state licence or certificate (for example electrical work) — check your state
🔎 Find courses for this job on training.gov.au ↗
Repair, maintain, or install electric motors, wiring, or switches.
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