North Metropolitan TAFE is the largest resources trainer in WA, offering the state’s most comprehensive, industry-targeted training with qualifications covering drilling operations, mining exploration and resource processing.
Benita - Deadly woman in mining (Surface Operations Management)
Our facilities
Simulated Underground Mine
Students are immersed in a life-like underground mine, where they experience all aspects of this unique environment, including wearing full safety equipment and access to a refuge chamber.
This facility is used by students in surveying, mining exploration and school students (VETDSS) seeking traineeships and employment in the sector to gain exposure to a real underground mine environment, prior to site mobilisation.
This simulated mine is also used by industry for mine induction training.
Green Skills Training Centre
The Centre has a 6-star Green Rating from the Green Building Council of Australia for leadership in environmentally sustainable design. It is completely self-sufficient in energy and water and often used as a demonstration centre for its design and energy efficiency.
The building is used to deliver specialised training in green jobs of the future including in renewable and alternative energy, biotechnology, water operations and environmental management.
Mining Training Centre
At the Centre, students learn a range of practical skills from interpreting the geology of a drill core in our core yard, to analysing materials in industry standard laboratories and off-road 4-wheel driving.
Autonomous Operations
The robotic autonomous plant helps in training for the use of plant and equipment for basic autonomous mining operations, including control room requirements.
Water Operations Superlab
The laboratory has capability to train in water operations including a RO (reverse osmosis) process plant and high-tech instrumentation such as HPLC (High performance liquid chromatography), auto-titrators and testing equipment for water quality.
Metals and Engineering
This campus features a specialist metals and engineering centre, built to ensure a focus on new technologies and the integration of these technologies across traditional trade and industry sectors.
Students learn high speed, high precision operations in a safe environment on a range of various programmable automated equipment. They’re exposed to up-to-date computer controlled machining technology and they’ll gain skills in industrial robotics and component design using current industry standard computer-aided design.
We are also an industry leader in delivery of fluid power training, rail operations and rail infrastructure.