In a recent post, I spoke about the Government Certificate of Competency (GCC) factories routes.
Three routes may allow you to qualify as a GCC factories candidate:
Route 1 is for applicants with a bachelor's degree in mechanical or electrical engineering obtained from a University
Route 2 is for applicants with a national diploma in mechanical or electrical engineering (including BTech) from a Higher Education and Training institution such as UNISA, UJ, VUT, etc.
Route 3 is for applicants with a national technical diploma in mechanical or electrical engineering from a TVET college (or the formerly FET colleges)
Route 1 applicants need to submit their degree qualification and satisfy the Commission of examiners that they have sufficient maintenance and operation experience.
Route 2 applicants need to satisfy the Commission of Examiners that the educational institution's curriculum covers the plant engineering syllabus. They need to satisfy the Commission of examiners that they have sufficient maintenance and operation experience.
Route 2 applicants do not have "minimum" subjects to complete, but the Commission of Examiners may require the applicant to complete additional subjects if they are of the opinion that the applicant's national diploma curriculum did not sufficiently cover the plant engineering syllabus.
Route 3 applicants need to satisfy the Commission of Examiners that the educational institution's curriculum covers the plant engineering syllabus. And, the curriculum needs to consist of the minimum subjects for mechanical or electrical applicants. They need to satisfy the Commission of examiners that they have sufficient maintenance and operation experience.
The purpose of this post is to present the route 3 minimum subjects for mechanical or electrical applicants. The minimum subjects required differ between the route 3 mechanical and electrical applicants.
Required mechanical GCC Factories subjects
The minimum GCC factories subject the mechanical national technical diploma applicants need to complete are:
N3 engineering drawing
N4 engineering science
N4 industrial electronics
N4 mathematics
N5 fluid mechanics
N5 electro-technics
N6 control systems
N6 mechanotechnics
N6 power machines
N6 strength of materials
N6 fluid mechanics
N6 supervisory management
Required electrical GCC Factories subjects
The minimum GCC factories subject the electrical national technical diploma applicants need to complete are:
N3 engineering drawing
N4 engineering science
N4 mathematics
N5 strength of materials
N6 control systems
N6 mechanotechnics
N6 power machines
N6 industrial electronics
N6 electro-technics
N6 supervisory management
Conclusion
National Diploma or national higher Diploma (route 2, including BTech) GCC factories applicants do not need to complete the minimum GCC factories subjects. They are required to satisfy the Commission of Examiners that their curriculum sufficiently covered the plant engineering syllabus.
However, the Commission of Examiners may require the Route 2 applicant to complete additional subjects if it believes that the curriculum has not sufficiently covered the plant engineering syllabus.
National technical Diploma (route 3) applicants must complete to satisfy that the curriculum covers the plant engineering syllabus. The Commission of Examiners also requires that route 3 GCC factories applicants complete the minimum GCC Factories subjects for mechanical or electrical.
It is important at this point that you review:
This will help you better understand the requirements and bring you one step closer to getting your Government Certificate of Competency (GCC) factory letter of acceptance from the Department of Employment and Labour.
