Certificate II in Engineering Pathways

About this qualification

MEM20422 is a taster qualification, and the register is unusually blunt about it: “This qualification develops trade-like skills and is not intended to develop trade-level skills.”

The example the register itself gives is welding. The outcome is not the theory and practice of welding — it is being introduced to welding, seeing how it joins metal, and getting the chance to weld some metal together. Machining is described the same way: something produced on a lathe, not the theory and practice of machining.

Twelve units: 4 core, then a minimum of 7 Group A electives and a maximum of 1 Group B elective. The packaging rule is strict about that split, and the register adds that no other descriptor can be used for the qualification.

It is a pre-apprenticeship. If the goal is the trade itself, that is MEM30219 Mechanical or MEM31925 Fabrication — both of which must be done under a training contract.

Roles it maps to

Where this qualification leads, per the national register.

Where it sits

Engineering Pathways is the taster; the two Certificate IIIs are the trades. Both trades must be done under a training contract or trade recognition.

1. Certificate II · pre-apprenticeship · you are hereMEM20422 Engineering Pathways
2. Certificate IIMEM20105 Engineering
3. Certificate III · apprenticeshipMEM30219 Engineering — Mechanical Trade
4. Certificate III · apprenticeshipMEM31925 Engineering — Fabrication Trade