This qualification provides technical skills and knowledge related to ferrous and nonferrous metals, polymers, composites and ceramics and their application in manufacturing and engineering processes.

Completion of this qualification will enable a person to work in a variety of roles requiring industrial materials knowledge and skills, including working as part of a multidisciplinary design team, supervising the processing of materials, providing expert materials supervision to materials-intensive manufacturing processes, and technical sales roles requiring specialist materials knowledge.

The qualification provides broad technical skill and knowledge across common engineering materials and related manufacturing and engineering processes and equips workers for supervisory and operations management roles where specialist materials skills and knowledge are required.

It has the following streams:

• Manufacturing Materials Management. This stream provides broad technical skill and knowledge across common engineering materials and materials- related manufacturing and engineering processes. This stream is suitable for people in supervisory and operations management roles where specialist materials skills and knowledge are required.
• Metal Technology. This stream provides technical skill and knowledge for manufacturing based on metal and alloy materials.
• Polymer Technology. This stream provides technical skill and knowledge for manufacturing based on polymer materials.
• Composites Technology. This stream provides technical skill and knowledge for manufacturing based on composite materials.

Streams cover recognised industry subsectors and are achieved by choosing units listed under stream headings. They are not specialisations listed on qualification testamurs (i.e. certificates) but are identifiable via records of results.

No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this qualification at the time of publication.