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Skills Training

The STC also offers qualifications- aligned skills courses at NQF Level 2. These courses are in mechanical, electrical, welding and instrumentation disciplines. They contain aspects of content that is currently offered in the maintenance worker “course 1, 2 and 3”​.

Below is a table of skills courses offered by STC:

Skills Courses

 Duration

Air Conditioning & Refrigeration

Air Conditioning & Refrigeration - 1

 2 weeks

Air Conditioning & Refrigeration - 2

 2 weeks

Air Conditioning & Refrigeration - 3

 2 weeks

Safe Handling of Refrigerants - 4

 3 days

Electrical Maintenance

Introduction to hand skills - electrical -1

 2 weeks

Introduction to wireways & single phase circuits - 2

 2 weeks

Testing & repair of motors, luminaires and domestic appliances - 3

 2 weeks

Introduction to panel wiring - 4

 3 weeks

Fitter Maintenance

Introduction to hand skills - Fitting - 1

 2 weeks

Introduction to stripping & assembly procedures - Fitting - 2

 2 weeks
Introduction to couplings and alignment - Fitting - 3 2 weeks

Introduction to gearbox & maintenance

procedures - Fitting - 4

 2 weeks

Below is a table of skills courses offered by STC:

Skills Courses

 Duration

Instrument Maintenance

 Introduction to basic hand skills - instrumentation - 1 2 weeks

Calibrate pneumatic instruments - 2

 2 weeks
Introduction to electricity - instrumentation -3 2 weeks
Introduction to basic electronics - instrumentation - 4 3 weeks

Motor Mechanic Maintenance

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Motor mechanic - 1

 15 days

Motor mechanic - 2

 15 days

Repair Shop Assistant

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Repair shop assistant modules 1 & 2

 3 weeks

Repair shop assistant module 3

 3 weeks
Welding Assistant​​​​​​​ Introduction to electric arc welding & oxy-acetylene cutting - 1 3 weeks

Manual Metal arc welding process - 2

 3 weeks

Oxy-acetylene gas welding - 3

 2 weeks

Oxy-acetylene gas cutting - 4

 1 week

Marking off - 5

 2 weeks

Welding (pipe fabrication) - 6

 4 weeks

Welding - argon arc welding - 7

 1 week

Welding - MIG, GMAW & CO2

 8 weeks