VCC Automotive Collision Repair & Refinishing - Visit our centre for trades and technology today. VCC's automotive training centre continues to be a leader in providing the hands-on skills that today's employers demand. VCC's Centre for Transportation Trades has been meeting the training needs of industry since 1949. Vancouver Community College entry-level and apprenticeship programs are the best in the province - giving graduates the skills to succeed in a highly competitive job market. VCC has seven automotive training centres. They are: Auto Body Technician, Collision Repair Technician, Automotive Refinishing Technician, Refinishing Prep Technician, Automotive Service Technician, Heavy Duty Mechanic, and Commercial Transport Mechanic.


	Apprenticeship Training

What is an apprenticeship	Wages
How To Become An Apprentice	How Long Is The Apprenticeship
Entry Level Trades Training

What is an apprenticeship

All industry training and apprenticeships in British Columbia are the responsibility of the Industry Training Authority (ITA)

To work in the trades of Automotive Collision Repair Technician, Automotive Prep Technician or Automotive Painting and Refinishing Technician, you must hold a valid provincial Certificate of Qualification (TQ) or be registered as an apprentice in the province of British Columbia.

Apprenticeship is a structured system of supervised training leading to certification in a designated field. An apprenticeship consists of on the job experience working under the supervision of an accomplished journey person. Apprentices are released by their employers to attend industry approved training at a college, where the technical component is taught in classrooms, labs and workshops. The technical component is 4 - 5 weeks per year. Vancouver Community College, Broadway Campus is the designated technical training facility in the lower mainland for Automotive Collision Repair Technician, Automotive Prep Technician, and Automotive Painting and Refinishing Technician.

Apprentices are responsible for their own registration.
To register, contact Barbara Dyer at 604 871-7041 or e-mail bdyer@vcc.ca

On completion of your schooling, you will qualify to write the inter-provincial exam. This allows you to work anywhere in Canada.

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Wages
Apprentices are paid wages during their on the job training. Once indentured in to the program, an apprentice can expect to earn 50% of a journey persons wage with yearly increases over the duration of the apprenticeship. Apprentices are eligible for Employment Insurance while attending classes at colleges.

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How To Become An Apprentice
The process of becoming enrolled as a formal apprentice is called the "indentureship" process. To become an apprentice, you must first find suitable employment in your chosen trade before the indentureship process begins. Gaining employment is the responsibility of the prospective apprentice. Most people first complete the Entry Level Trades Training (ELTT) at Vancouver Community College before searching for suitable employment. This may soon be a prerequisite. Many are able to secure employment before the end of the course. If you register as an apprentice within one year of completing your Automotive Collision Repair ELTT, you may receive credit for up to one year of the Apprenticeship.

You must become registered through your employer in order to access the apprenticeship program.

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For registration procedures, click on the links below:

Automotive Collision Repair Technician Apprentice ...more on this program

Automotive Refinishing Prep Technician Apprentice ...more on this program

Automotive Paint & Refinishing Technician Apprentice ...more on this program

Automotive Glass Technician Apprentice ...more on this program

If you are having difficulty applying please contact the VCC Registrar's Office.

If you need further information or assistance, please contact: Collision Repair Department at VCC - Broadway Campus. Phone: 604-871-7543/7415 or Fax 604-871-7548.

How Long Is The Apprenticeship

Automotive Collision Repair Technician

Length of program: --------- 4 years

Workplace hours: ---------- 6750

Technical college hours: ---- 450

Automotive Refinishing Prep Technician

Length of program: --------- 1 year
Workplace hours: -----------1680
Technical college hours: -----120

Automotive Painting and Refinishing Technician

Length of program: --------- 2 years
Workplace hours: ---------- 5280
Technical college hours: ---- 120

Program Prerequisites: Either:

a valid Automotive Collision BC Certificate of Qualification; or
an Inter Provincial Red Seal Automotive Collision Repair Technician; or
a valid Automotive Refinishing Prep Technician BC Certificate of Qualification.

Automotive Glass Technician

Length of program: --------- 3 years
Workplace hours: ---------- 5280
Technical college hours: ---- 66

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Entry Level Trades Training
VCC's ELTT Collision and Refinishing programs have a job placement of 95%. Every student that puts an effort into the program will find a job. Industry needs more employees than VCC can train.

Unlike an apprenticeship, you don't need to be employed to enter an ELTT program, although the skills you acquire will certainly help you find one. If you register as an apprentice within one year of completing your Automotive Collision Repair ELTT, you may receive credit for up to one year of the Apprenticeship.

Vancouver Community College offers Entry Level Trades Training for:

Automotive Collision Repair Technician

Automotive Refinishing Prep Technician

Other Entry Level Trades Training at VCC

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VCC's Automotive Collision Repair & Refinishing Prep programs are located at the Broadway Campus in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Students receive instruction in a setting designed to represent a typical automotive collision repair and refinishing facility using traditional and state of the art technology. Emphasis is placed on practical application of skills using a variety of equipment and methods on actual vehicles.

Automotive Collision Repair Department
1155 East Broadway Street Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V5T 4V5
For general information: 604-871-7415 or e-mail us

VCC's Centre for Transportation Trades

continues to be a leader in providing the hands-on skills that today's employers demand. Our entry-level and apprenticeship programs are the best in the province - giving graduates the skills to succeed in a highly competitive job market. Visit our centre for trades and technology today.

VCC Automotive Collision Repair & Refinishing - Visit our centre for trades and technology today. VCC's automotive training centre continues to be a leader in providing the hands-on skills that today's employers demand. VCC's Centre for Transportation Trades has been meeting the training needs of industry since 1949. Vancouver Community College entry-level and apprenticeship programs are the best in the province - giving graduates the skills to succeed in a highly competitive job market. VCC has seven automotive training centres. They are: Auto Body Technician, Collision Repair Technician, Automotive Refinishing Technician, Refinishing Prep Technician, Automotive Service Technician, Heavy Duty Mechanic, and Commercial Transport Mechanic.

Vancouver Community College offers a wide variety of automotive collision repair training programs including autobody and automotive repair, autorefinishing, collision/refinishing red seal programs, autobody apprenticeship programs and everything else you need to know to repair, fix and refinish a car. The VCC automotive repair training program is the leading autobody training and career school in British Columbia. Our automotive training programs will teach you the skills necessary to build your automotive career. After completion of our automotive and autobody repair training programs, you will be qualified to work as an Auto Technician and an Autobody Painting Technician. VCC is the best post-secondary autobody, auto repair and auto refinishing school in the lower mainland. Our automotive painting, custom car painting, and autobody repair training programs will prepare you for your automotive apprenticeship, and automotive repair and refinishing career. The VCC automotive collision repair training program also offers red seal certification training programs. These programs will teach you all you need to know about “how to repair a car?” and “how to refinish a car?” so that you can have a career in autobody repair and car refinishing. Switch careers and become an Autobody Technician, an Auto body Refinishing Technician or an Auto Detailing Technician after completing the VCC auobody, refinishing and detailing courses. The VCC automotive collision repair training programs will give you the automotive training and repair programs that you need for your automotive repair and refinishing career.