At Fleming College in Peterborough, Canada, Cert in Heavy Equipment Operator is offered as a certificate in Aerospace & Automotive Engineering programme. The programme runs for 12 weeks, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 20,938 per total (CAD 11,640 per total for local students).
This program centres on operating and performing preventive upkeep of heavy construction machinery through hands-on learning. Students build operating skills using equipment such as rock trucks, skid steers, hydraulic excavators, tractor loader backhoes, rubber-tired loaders, and bulldozers, along with other construction site machinery. Classroom instruction focuses on the fundamentals needed to support those operating skills, while coursework spans heavy equipment operating techniques, equipment maintenance, earthmoving technology, and safety covering personal, work-site, and equipment concerns.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Direct entry requires an Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) with the majority of credits at Workplace (E) level including Grade 12 Workplace (E) English, or the majority of courses at College (C) or Open (O) level; Grade 12 C substitutes for a Grade 11 C requirement, and University (U) or Mixed (M) courses satisfy a College-level requirement. Applicants 19 or older without an OSSD may sit the Skillsmarker assessment, with additional testing or upgrading possibly required. No portfolio, interview or non-academic clearance is stated for this one-semester certificate. As the programme sets no language scores of its own, Fleming College's general English proficiency requirement applies: IELTS Academic 6.0 overall with no band below 5.5, TOEFL iBT 80 with no section below 20, PTE Academic 46, or Duolingo English Test 105.
Application Details
Start Date:April, July and September
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants apply through ontariocolleges.ca: for full-time programmes starting in the 2027 fall intake the equal-consideration date is 1 February 2027, and Fleming also runs a January start; applications received after 1 February are processed first-come, first-served until programmes are full. International applicants apply via the OCAS International Application Service to the September, January or May intake and face no fixed deadline; Fleming instead recommends applying between six weeks and five months before the intended start depending on home country, and processes files on a rolling basis with offers typically issued within 5-10 business days. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
