Costs includes all texts and assessment material.

Course fee on our site: Course $700.00 per applicant Verification of Competency from $400.00

Course fee on your site: Contact us for a price

Two days for participants with no experience.

Most trainees take one to two days to complete the course but there is no minimum or maximum course length and the time. It all depends on the trainee’s skillset.

100 Points of ID.

Appropriate footwear — fully enclosed shoes or boots.

Payment for the balance of your course fee — either cash or EFTPOS payment.

Planning and preparing

Conducting machine pre-operational checks

How to operate the excavator

Lifting, carrying and placing materials

Selecting, removing and fitting attachments

Relocating the excavator

Excavator maintenance

Cleaning up.

There are two assessment tasks to achieve your excavator licence:

Knowledge assessment – Written/oral exam containing both short answer and multiple choice questions. Each test varies in length and contains critical questions which must be answered correctly.

Performance assessment – A driving assessment which will include a pre-operation check, post-operation checks and general machine operations.

What if you don’t pass the assessments?

If you are not successful with completing the course, you are provided support and further training before you undergo another reassessment. If you need a second assessment, you only complete the tasks that you did not successfully complete in the first attempt.

Interim license

On successful completion of the excavator training course, you will receive an interim paper license called a Notice of Satisfactory Excavator Course Completion. This interim license allows you to operate an excavator. The interim licence is valid for 60 days after the assessment date.

Statement of Attainment

You will then receive an official Statement of Attainment and a photo licence in the post. Your qualification will also be registered on the national database.

Our skid steer operator course can be completed at your workplace or you can attend one of our training facilities:

Armidale: New England Freighters 262 Mann St, Armidale

You need to complete a form to book in your staff and send us a purchase order.

Choose your training session from the option(s) below and pay your deposit to firm your place in the course.

On payment of your deposit, you will get you course material via a link that we email to you.

Important: You must register 3 days before your preferred training date to ensure your course placement is approved by our registered training organisation (RTO).

Enrolment steps

Select the training session you want to attend.

Click ‘Add to Cart’, then go to the cart, and click ‘Checkout’.

Read and check the Terms and Conditions, complete your personal details, and click ‘checkout’ to pay your $100 deposit. *

After payment is made, you’ll then be taken to an ‘order confirmation’ page.

Download the digital download zip file to access the student documentation. This link expires after 24 hours. We recommend you download the files immediately after you get the link.

You’ll also receive an email with the link to the applicant digital file(s):

Enrolment form: Complete the enrolment form and email it to Ross: ross@netraining.com.au

Important: Download the documentation within 24 hours of receiving the link to the zip file. (The download availability will expire after 24 hours.)

*You will pay the balance of the course fee when you attend the training session using EFTPOS or with cash.