Chrysler Technician Training Offers Diploma and Apprenticeship Experience
If you are already
working in a Chrysler dealership and want to advance your career within the
organization, the Chrysler apprenticeship at Centennial College (officially
known as Automotive Service Technician Co-op Apprenticeship) will give you the
know-how to do just that. Applicants are also required to have completed at minimum an Ontario Secondary School Diploma or General
Educational Development or equivalent as well as English Grade 12 C or U, or
equivalent (or be willing to take the Centennial College English Skills
Assessment for Admission); and Mathematics Grade 11 C, M or U or equivalent, or
skills assessment (or be willing to take the Centennial College
Engineering Math Skills Assessment for Admission. Finally, applicants may be
required to submit a resume and questionnaire that describes experience
and aptitude, and attend an interview (by invite only, based on resume and
questionnaire) with faculty/potential employer.
Once they are accepted,
students study the ins and outs of becoming a Chrysler technician for two years
in a unique
program that provides the highest level of apprenticeship technical training
Centennial College offers, with the added value of a college diploma. This is
achieved through a format that sees students spend the first eight months of
the Chrysler Technician offering in school, eight months at a co-op work
placement with a Chrysler dealer as a registered apprentice and a final
eight months in school.
As
such, the first eight months are spent on Chrysler product component design and
repair, as it applies to the apprenticeship curriculum. Additional technical
training includes Chrysler factory training, advanced diagnostics and
hybrid/alternate fuels training. In addition, students of this Chrysler
apprenticeship partake in on-campus courses that cover the automotive
trade business, English and general education that will help prepare them for
employment opportunities in a dealership administrative role. In many of their Chrysler apprenticeship courses, students have
the opportunity to train on automobile assemblies using tools of the trade in
fully-equipped campus automotive labs, as Ashtonbee is Canada’s largest
transportation training centre.
Once the Chrysler
Technician student’s transition to their apprenticeship, they have skills
needed to contribute to the workplace while learning new skills that will allow
them to take more advanced courses once they return to Ashtonbee Campus.
Please note that apprentices are
currently eligible for up to $4,000 in various grants and tax incentives.
Employers, meanwhile, are eligible for up to $45,000 over four years in various
federal and provincial tax incentives.
Upon
Chrysler apprenticeship
graduation,
students are prepared for roles such as: automotive service technicians, service
writers/advisors, service managers, instructors/professors and auto
company representatives. Basic duties of a Chrysler technician include: diagnosing problems using Chrysler diagnostic
equipment; performing repairs and preventive maintenance on engines,
transmissions, electrical systems, brakes and tires.
