Toyota Technician Training
Offers Unique Opportunity
Did you know that by
attending Toyota
Technician training at Centennial College, you may go on to work as more than
just an automotive service technician? That’s because this undertaking also
offers the knowledge needed to obtain jobs such as service writers (responsible for writing repair orders, communicating
them to the mechanic and estimating the final cost to the consumer), service
parts managers (ensure that right spare part and resources are at the right
place, where the broken part is, at the right time), trainers and professors
(teach students how to become automotive service technicians) and automotive
manufacturer specialists. Within the Toyota organization, these professionals
can rest assured that they will be in demand as they are working for the
eleventh-largest company in the world by revenue.
This Toyota training,
officially known as the Automotive Service Technician Toyota
(Map 32) program, requires applications to possess at minimum an Ontario
Secondary School Diploma or a General Educational Development (GED) or
equivalent. In addition, they should be employed by a Toyota
dealership. Candidates may apply directly to Centennial
College, with successful applicants obtaining an employer and registering as a
MAP apprentice with the Apprenticeship Branch of the Ministry of Training,
Colleges and Universities. Students may apply to a
maximum of three programs at Centennial College.
There are a limited number spots within this Toyota technician training. However, when space permits additional applicants who
may not be employed by Toyota are selected through an interview process.
Toyota technician training is covered
in four eight-week blocks, alternating with apprenticeship work terms at
students’ Toyota dealers. As such, students first gain an understanding of the
basics through a traditional apprenticeship curriculum as well as additional
training on Toyota products’ description, operation, diagnostics and repair.
They then head out into the real world to apply what they have learned and
obtain new knowledge from seasoned professionals with whom they work
side-by-side.
The
on-campus component of this Toyota training is delivered at Ashtonbee Campus,
Centennial College’s transportation training hub. This location is also the
largest transportation training centre in the province and comes with fully-equipped
automotive labs. As such, students’ training on Toyota products makes them
productive immediately after completing each level of their training. Using the
labs and actual Toyota vehicles, the Toyota technician training covers five
particular courses: Drive Train Systems,
Electrical/Electronic & Fuels, Engine Systems, Work Practices and
Procedures and Suspension/Steering and Brake Systems.
While they are in school,
students of this Toyota Technician training may also be eligible for Employment Insurance (EI) and
while they are with their employers, they are fully compensated. Another
benefit of the Toyota technician
training is that students
may also be eligible for up to $4,000 in various grants and tax incentives. This Toyota
technician training also makes employers eligible for up to $45,000 over four years in
various federal and provincial tax incentives.
