Construction Skills Queensland

Overview

Construction Skills Queensland supports the upskilling of existing workers, enabling them to meet new and emerging industry practices, licensing requirements and environmental considerations.

Construction Skills Queensland will contribute to the cost of eligible training and/or assessment in the way of a reimbursement of some of the approved qualifications/UOC that may be required in the electro technology industry. 

To download an Electrotechnology application form, click here

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants must meet the following funding eligibility criteria:

• The applicant must be working full-time or part-time or genuinely seeking work in the Queensland building and construction industry and must meet the residency criteria below; AND

• T he applicant must not be an employee of a Local, State or Commonwealth government department or statutory body; AND

• The applicant must have undertaken a qualification or course as outlined by Construction Skills Queensland to be funded under this program

• The training and/or assessment must have been delivered by a Registered Training Organisation (RTO); AND

• The RTO must not be funded by Construction Skills Queensland or any other entity for the delivery of the training and/or assessment for which a reimbursement is being sought.

Applicants meet the following residency criteria:

Australian or New Zealand Residential Criteria, applicants must:

• be an Australian or New Zealand citizen, OR

• have permanent Australian residency visa, OR

• hold a Temporary Protection visa, OR

• hold a Temporary visa subclass 309 or 820, OR

• hold a Business Skills (Provisional) visa subclass 457, OR

• hold a Skilled Independent Regional (SIR) visa subclass 495.

Evidence of this must be supplied in the form of a copy of your Australian or New Zealand birth certificate or passport or visa or citizenship certificate or a copy of your temporary visa detailing the type/ subclass.

Queensland Residential Criteria, applicants must:

• be a permanent resident of Queensland, OR

• be permanently employed in Queensland.

Evidence of this must be supplied in the form of a Queensland Drivers' Licence or telephone account or bank statement or statement from a real estate agent or any other formal documentation stating your full name and current residential address.

• Reimbursement will be based upon the cost of the training delivery and not for any associated costs such as meals, travel or accommodation.

• A maximum funding rate per participant is set according to the qualification undertaken. Construction Skills Queensland may not reimburse the full cost of the fees paid.

• Only one eligible qualification per financial year is able to be claimed