Professional Trade Mechanic Certification

This course is designed to create better bike mechanics, by furthering their development. It is about doing repairs methodically and for the right reasons. It incorporates thinking about the customers’ experience for the repair. It also teaches the art of balancing repair versus replacement, profitability and how to improve the customer’s experience and the business’s performance. The course ends with an exam, with a Pass/Fail for the certificate. Because of the history of this certificate during the Shimano Service Centre years, it is highly valued by the trade. It is not officially recognized as a certificate, but the trade sees it as a true indicator of the mechanics abilities

1. Training room containing everything you might need
2. Training room
3. The bikes you will work on
4. Brake training aid

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Course Information

• 2-Day course
• $480 per person
• B&B may be available on request
• Suitable for Bicycle Mechanics in trade

Location

Blockhouse Bay Auckland
(It is possible to do this course elsewhere, but because of the large number of study resources being used, it will take longer and will cost a lot more).

Bookings

Please book this course on my Facebook page where you’ll also find the next available dates.

The benefits of this training for the mechanics, as proven over 20+ years, are:

• Being able to work more methodically = more efficient = faster
• Work to a higher standard in-store to “best possible” level = fewer comebacks
• Increased understanding of the mechanics job and how it ties in with the shop’s profitability and customer satisfaction
• Feeling more appreciated in their job, because the boss is investing in them
• reduces the need for more experienced staff to spend time on training, checking and watching new staff = all staff happier and more efficient = faster

The tooling and bikes are the same training materials as the previous “Shimano Service Centre” courses at Sheppard’s. This training follows the proven format, offering mechanics hands-on and relevant training, to create much better mechanics.

Mechanics will be trained in:

• Correct tool usage
• Correct torqueing of bolts and nuts
• Front Derailleur Adjustment
• Rear Derailleur Adjustment
• V-Brake Adjustment
• Mechanical Disc Brake Adjustment
• Hydraulic Disc brake bleeding and knowledge (new 2020)
• Road Dual Pivot Brake Adjustment
• Threaded Bearing Adjustment
• Wheel trueing 101 (new 2020)

Certificate/ Exam

The course ends the 2nd day with an exam, with a Pass/Fail for the certificate. This is a certificate you must earn, by showing you can service a bike following proven methods, which give a guaranteed result, every time. The Standard is set in a way that the mechanic has to follow the correct procedures to meet the criteria for a Pass.
This proves they can service a bike in a timely, efficient manner while following proven procedures.

Over the years some students have elected to come to learn only and do not sit the exam. Others sit the exam and fail. However, every one of these students has been extremely happy with the valuable content they learned over the 2 days. In most of the fail cases, they just need more experience to become comfortable with the task on hand.

Therefore if you are lacking experience, these 2 days of training are still extremely worthwhile, to further your mechanical experience level by many months.
From the past, we learned that most attendees advance their experience by 6 months or more after the 2-Day course, so this is a huge advantage for the store and makes it very cost-effective.

 

Want to work in the Bicycle Industry but have no experience?

NZBTA offers suitable training for finding employment in the Trade, in a very efficient manner. We suggest you do the Trade Introduction course, find a job placement, get comfortable with working in a shop/workshop environment and 3 months later follow it up with the Professional
Mechanic course.

The Trade Introduction course will set you up in a way that you will quickly make you feel part
of the shop and being able to understand much quicker how the shop works.

This method will only take you about 3 months and will kickstart your career much better than just starting to work in a bike shop and hoping someone will train you up.

The only current alternative training method is to do NZQA Level 3 and 4. If the course is run, it will take about 9 months to complete, cost at least 7 times as much to do, for a certificate which is not well-valued by the Trade(because it is very theory research based and not very bicycle trade specific hands-on experience). This feedback has come from ex-NZQA student who attended NZBTA has been extremely positive, and most feel the money and time spent on NZQA was a waste. Referees are available.

Therefore the NZBTA method gives you a much faster result, a more enjoyable learning experience and far better value for money.

This method of training will also make it much easier to get further jobs, because of the value of the certificates by the Trade. The NZBTA courses do not have a study loan option like NZQA, but the much lower cost, much shorter duration and much higher valued trade appreciation of the NZBTA certificate makes the NZBTA a much better investment.