Apprenticeships

Having a clear qualification pathway, starting with an apprenticeship, helps make the mining, quarrying and tunnelling sector a more attractive career option for new entrants to the industry, including school-leavers.

 

For apprentices:

MITO offers a full range of training and apprenticeship programmes for the extractives sector, covering mining, quarrying and drilling. Their pathways support people at every stage of their career, from newcomers to those moving into supervisory or management roles.
For more information, visit MITO’s Future Learners page.

 

For employers:

Any apprenticeship scheme can only work with strong support from employers.

 

Employers must be committed to supporting their learner(s) through the training programme providing them with time off to attend the classroom training, or participate in workplace training, and pay the training fees associated with the apprenticeship.

 

Learners must be committed to completing the required elements of the training programme, which includes a mix of classroom and workplace-based training and assessment.

 

For those wishing to complete a Certificate of Competency for a Statutory Position, the New Zealand Certificate in Mining and Quarrying (Level 4) will include all unit standards required for a current A-grade or B-grade Quarry Manager CoC.

 

If you have any questions, please contact us.