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About the course
This entry-level apprenticeship qualification prepares you for work in furniture finishing while you earn and learn on the job or in TAFE Queensland’s specialist furniture-making facilities. You’ll develop practical skills to prepare timber surfaces, polish fine timber items (including furniture and instruments), interpret plans, and estimate and cost jobs, including graining and decorative finishes. This Certificate III supports a trade pathway in furniture finishing. The programme focuses on applied engineering drawings, workshop skills, and technical maintenance competencies.
Career outcome
Graduates can pursue roles in furniture and timber-product finishing across manufacturing, retail trade and construction settings. Typical outcomes include furniture finisher (including French polishing), furniture finishing worker, or related furniture-making roles that involve preparing, coating and detailing timber products to a high standard. This Certificate III helps build job-ready trade skills for the furniture finishing industry. Preparing graduates for engineering technician, draftsperson, and technical service roles, or degree articulation.
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