Trade training
Whether you want to work for someone else, start your own business, advance your current skill set, or employ an apprentice or trainee, trades training with TAFE Queensland is the best way to harness your potential and turn something into something great.
Become an apprentice or trainee
Our training will prepare you to take up tools in a specific occupation. You will learn the skills and ability to build things, fix things, create and make great things to be proud of. From building and construction to baking and cookery, hairdressing to plumbing and everything in between, we're here to help you make great happen.
Information for trades employers
Great businesses need great people. We will take as much care with your apprentice and trainee as you do with your own business. With a 94 per cent employer satisfaction rating, we put 20,000 apprentices and trainees through their paces each year. Choose TAFE Queensland as your training provider for flexibility, consistency and quality.
Trades training areas
- Aged care
- Air-conditioning and refrigeration
- Allied health
- Automotive electrical technology
- Bricklaying and stonemasonry
- Baking and patisserie
- Beauty services
- Building and construction
- Building design
- Carpentry and joinery
- Civil construction
- Cookery
- Electrotechnology
- Engineering
- Hairdressing and barbering
- Heavy automotive industries
- Horticulture and landscaping
- Light automotive
- Manufacturing and design
- Motorbike and bicycle mechanics
- Painting and decorating
- Plumbing
- Printing
- Safety
- Tiling, plastering and flooring
- Travel and tourism management
Women in trades
At TAFE Queensland we're passionate about encouraging and empowering more girls and women to consider pursuing a trade pathway.
Whether you’re finishing school, re-entering the workforce or looking for a career change, you can earn while you learn with an apprenticeship and gain the hands-on skills and experience you need to carve out a future as a tradesperson.