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LocationOnline
CredentialJourneyperson
Program Length3 training periods
Delivery MethodOnline

If you have a technical mind, enjoy helping people and are attentive to detail, launch your career as a parts technician.

Your three-year apprenticeship includes:

  • a minimum of 1,500 hours of on-the-job training for each period
  • 3 online instruction periods

As you specialize in parts and materials, you’ll learn about:

  • auto body
  • brakes
  • electrical
  • hydraulics
  • steering
  • suspension
  • powertrain
  • engines
  • safe work practices

As a parts technician, you’ll handle stock, identify and catalogue parts, as well as order, receive, inspect, sort and price them.

Requirements

More program details

This information will be available soon.

The following tables summarize the topics and skills for each online instruction period.

Your online course allocates 37 weeks for technical training, with an additional 3 weeks to prepare for your provincial exam. The first and third training periods each take approximately 270 hours to complete, while the second period requires about 300 hours.

You are working at your own pace, allowing you to complete the course early.

For complete details, check the parts technician course outline, or check on Tradesecrets, the Alberta government's Apprentice & Industry Training branch website.

Subject

Workplace safety and environmental protection

Material handling and storage
Material identification and calculations
Communication

Subject
Engines and related systems
Power train

Hydraulics, steering and suspension

Brakes
Auto body

Agriculture and mobile industrial equipment

Subject
Inventory
Procurement
Design and planning
Business management

Human relations and advisory network

All three periods of parts technical training are only offered exclusively online.
  • Flexible start dates between September 2 and December 12, 2025.
  • The last day to write the Lakeland final is May 15, 2026.
  • June 5, 2026 is the last day of the course. The provincial exam must be completed before this date.
  • Full refund of fees, less $100, if you withdraw up to 5 business days prior to the first day of class. No exceptions.

To see other important dates such as when the college is closed, visit the academic year and term date page.

Enhance your journeyperson status with 2 other standards.

  1. The Red Seal is a national designation. You earn it by passing an interprovincial exam. That means you can work anywhere in Canada with your Red Seal Endorsement (RSE). Currently not all trades have a red seal standard.
  2. The Blue Seal is an Alberta program. It’s earned by taking approved business studies. Now a separate certificate, the program also has a new name: Achievement in Business Competencies (Blue Seal).

A Red Seal shows that you have successfully completed an inter provincial standards exam. You’ll get a distinctive red seal to attach to your journeyman certificate.red seal graphic

This means you will be able to work anywhere in Canada without having to write another province’s trade exam.

The Red Seal Program was created in 1952. It encourages the standardization of apprenticeship training and certification programs across Canada. A national occupational analysis of each of the 56 Red Seal trade is used as a base document for inter provincial exams and is encouraged for use in curriculum development. The Canadian Council of Directors of Apprenticeship (CCDA) administers the program.

Check the Red Seal trades in Alberta.

For more information, check the ​Red Seal Website. Exams, samples questions, and individual trade standards are included.

Lakeland also offers prep courses for red seal exams for anyone who hasn’t achieved their red seal status. Check trades continuing education for those courses.

Blue Seal program is the common name for the Achievement in Business Competencies Program.
blue seal graphic

If you have a valid Alberta Journeyperson Certificate, you are eligible to receive a Blue Seal after completing 150 hours of study in an approved business program. You can choose courses at Lakeland College.

The Alberta Apprenticeship and Industry Training Board established the Achievement in Business Competencies Program. It both encourages and recognizes business studies by anyone who is already certified in an Alberta designated trade or occupation.

Complete details are available on the Blue Seal website.

Lakeland offers you the ability to take both online and face-to-face business courses in Lloydminster.

You can earn while you learn as you can fit the courses into your work schedule.

Take courses in our 1-year general business certificate. You'll need at least 4 courses to reach the minimum 150 hours to earn a blue seal.

If you have the academic requirements, you could earn the certificate.

Please contact our business enrolment specialist for more information about how to apply for courses and how to reach your goal.

Individual Learning Modules (ILMs)

ILMs are included in your registration fees and will be mailed to you.

If you have any questions, please contact:

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You'll showcase your skills in the classroom, in the trades centre, on the job and even at competitions. In the last six years, Lakeland students have won 17 skills Alberta medals.


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