Airframe Assembly

How To Apply

In the Airframe Assembly program, you'll obtain the knowledge and skills to perform complex airframe assembly, as required by the aviation manufacturing industry. The program will focus on airframe assembly through the application of specific technical skill sets relating to materials, riveting techniques, structural assembly and stresses.

When you graduate, you'll have the skill sets necessary to work in the aviation manufacturing workforce. These acquired skill sets, including blueprint reading, cutting/forming and riveting, will also be transferrable to other trades such as sheet metal, construction, industrial and transportation.

Bombardier Aerospace will consider students who graduate with a grade of 80 per cent or higher for employment.

Program Overview

Bombardier Aerospace will consider students who graduate with a grade of 80 per cent or higher for employment.

Courses

Semester 1

Career Options and Education Pathways

Career Outlook

Aircraft Assembler
Airframe Assembler
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Education Pathways

Learning earned at Centennial may qualify graduates of this program for credits at partner institutions.

Please visit our website at //centennial.adv-pub.moveonca.com/outgoing-home/ for more information on pathways that may be available for your program.

For pathways to other Ontario post-secondary institutions, please visit ONCAT.

Admission Requirements

Academic Requirements

Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD), or equivalent, or mature student status (19 years or older)
Grade 12 English (C or U), or equivalent, or take the Centennial English Admission Test
Grade 11 Mathematics (M or U) or Grade 12 Mathematics (C or U), or equivalent, or take the Centennial College Airframe Assembly Math Skills Assessment for Admission

Additional Requirements

English Language Proficiency

How to Apply

1. Apply Online

Domestic Students

If you are applying through the Better Jobs Ontario Program, please apply at the Employment Training Centre (Progress Campus). The Better Jobs Ontario Program is a funding initiative for those who have been laid-off and are in need of training. For more information go to Better Jobs Ontario Program.

If you have previously attended a full-time program at Centennial College, you may be eligible for a Program Transfer. Visit Enrolment Services at any Campus for information.

All other applicants must apply online at Ontariocolleges.ca. A non-refundable application fee of $125 must accompany applications. The fee is payable online, by telephone, online banking, by mail, or in-person to Ontariocolleges.ca. For more information go to Ontariocolleges.ca Application Fees.

International Students

Apply directly to Centennial College here.

2. Submit Documents

Domestic Applicants

Current Ontario high school students and graduates from Ontario high schools: Notify your guidance counsellor that you have applied to college and your school will forward transcripts to Centennial College via Ontariocolleges.ca.

Graduates of college/university, or high school outside Ontario but within Canada: You are responsible for requesting that your educational institute sends any required documents and transcripts to Ontariocolleges.ca.

Domestic applicants who attended school outside of Canada: If you are submitting transcripts to meet admission requirements, you must have the transcripts assessed by an independent credential assessment agency such as World Education Services (WES) or International Credential Assessment Service (ICAS). For more information go to Submitting your Transcripts.

International Applicants

Please refer to the International Education Application Guide.

3. Confirm Your Offer of Admission

Offers of Admission are sent by mail to eligible applicants. When you receive your offer, you must login to your account at Ontariocolleges.ca and confirm before the Deadline to Confirm noted in your offer letter.

You may confirm only one college and one program offer at a time.

You must confirm your offer by the Deadline to Confirm noted in your Offer of Admission letter or your seat may be given to another applicant.

When you confirm your Offer of Admission at Centennial College you are given access to your personal myCentennial account where you can check your email, grades, register for courses, pay tuition fees, and see your class timetable.

4. Pay Fees

Centennial fees statements are sent by email to your personal email account and to your myCentennial email account. Fees statements are not mailed.

You must make a minimum payment by the Fees Deadline noted in your Fees Statement or your seat may be given to another applicant.

5. Build Your Timetable (Register for Courses)

Build your timetable (web-register for courses) at my.centennialcollege.ca.

Fall registration begins mid-July
January registration begins mid-December
May registration begins mid-April

Your web-registration will not open if:

You have not submitted your minimum fee payment by the deadline
You received a Conditional Offer of Admission and you have not met the conditions of your offer.

Once you have paid your fees or have made appropriate arrangements, register for your courses online through myCentennial.

Tuition and Fees

Note: There is no International Program availability for Airframe Assembly at this time.

Fees noted below are estimates only. Tuition is based on 1 semester, beginning Fall 2024.

Student	Tuition (1 Semester)	Ancillary Fees	Total
Canadian	$1,360.50	$586.92	$1,947.42

Program Vocational Learning Outcomes

Program Vocational Learning Outcomes describe what graduates of the program have demonstrated they can do with the knowledge and skills they have achieved during their studies. The outcomes are closely tied to the needs of the workplace. Through assessment (e.g., assignments and tests), students verify their ability to reliably perform these outcomes before graduating.

Order parts or services from internal and external vendors according to manufacturer’s specifications.
Perform work in compliance with Canadian regulatory legislation, legal and ethical practices in the transportation industry.
Develop marketable concepts for the aerospace industry that meet innovation and entrepreneurship objectives.
Develop and maintain productive client relationships to increase opportunities for client retention.
Implement marketing and sales strategies to meet the sales expectations of the organization.
Process and maintain service records and financial transactions in accordance with organizational and industry standards.
Execute environmental scans, assessments and forecasting to support business decisions.
Keep current with aerospace trends and issues, and interdependent relationships in the broader transportation industry sectors to improve work performance and guide career development.
Communicate information between customers and varying internal service departments (e.g. technicians, sales, parts, warranty) to assist the flow of operations and ensure accurate services are rendered.

Airframe Assembly

How To Apply

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