Motive Power Fundamentals – Parts and Counter Personnel Motive Power Technician – Service and Management
Available as a one- or two-year program
Train for a career in the fast-paced and ever-changing automotive field with expertise that can be applied to motive power trades such as heavy equipment, small engine, marine, power sport, truck and coach and agricultural technician.
- Credential
One-year Ontario College Certificate (Fundamentals)
Two-year Ontario College Diploma (Technician)
- Start Date
September entry
- Location
Belleville campus
Find your career
Motive power tradespeople possess refined knowledge, diagnostic abilities and business management skills.
- A one-year certificate prepares you for a career as parts and counter personnel.
- A two-year diploma prepares you for a technical position, and provides the practical training to manage a small business or franchise.
- Graduates work with dealerships, manufacturers, service and repair shops, parts distributors, retail stores, wholesalers, insurance appraisers and adjustors, and manufacturing plants for automotive-related items.
- Activities may include repairs, writing customer service orders, sales, customer relations, parts counter service, warranty claim processing, supervision and insurance appraisal.
Our grads get great jobs
- Auto Parts Counter Person, Benson Auto Parts
- Apprentice Technician, Boyer Kia
- Service Writer, Canadian Tire
- Automotive Technician, JFP Automotive Inc.
- Automotive Technician, Heninger Toyota
- Automotive Apprentice, Ford Canada
- Counter Person, CarQuest
- Vehicle Sales Associate, Belleville Toyota
Is it for you?
You love cars. But do you want to do this for a living? People who succeed in this program:
- Have often grown up taking things apart and putting them back together
- Enjoy troubleshooting and solving problems
- Have a good background in math
- Like to know how things work
Experiential learning
Get a hands-on education that will prepare you for this trade:
- Learn by doing in Loyalist’s new state-of-the-art Bay of Quinte Skills Centre.
- Practise your skills on real vehicles and vehicle components in a safe learning environment.
- Gain practical knowledge of safe environmental practises and small business management.
- Enjoy extracurricular opportunities including the annual Show and Shine event, Drive to Survive, Santa Claus parade, Heels on Wheels, and the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) show in Las Vegas.
- SEMA has invited Loyalist students to participate in its student placement program for the past several years – the only College Automotive program in Canada to participate in the program.
- Selected parts of the course content mirrors that of the three levels of the Automotive Service Technician Apprenticeship program.
Outstanding faculty make the difference
- Learn with an experienced, knowledgeable and enthusiastic faculty.
- Professors are licensed Automotive Technicians recognized and in good standing with the Skilled Trades Ontario, with experience teaching high school and college automotive programs.
- The program coordinator has been recognized with Outstanding Achievement Awards from the Canadian Auto Workers and Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Programs.