Kwantlen Polytechnic University offers Trades - Apprenticeship in Industrial Mechanic/Millwright: Apprenticeship, a trades - apprenticeship in Trades programme in Surrey, Canada. The programme runs for 7 weeks, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition is CAD 1,000 per total for local students.
This apprenticeship program provides the in-school technical training for apprentices working toward certification as an Industrial Mechanic (Millwright) in British Columbia, a designated Red Seal trade. Training runs across four sequential levels, each seven weeks of classroom and shop-based instruction, delivered alongside employer-sponsored on-the-job training that totals 6,600 hours over the course of the apprenticeship. Apprentices combine this technical training with hands-on workplace experience, and on completing all four levels, the required on-the-job hours, and the interprovincial millwright examination with a passing score, they receive the SkilledTradesBC Certificate of Qualification along with the Interprovincial Red Seal Endorsement, recognized across Canada. KPU reports each level's completion to SkilledTradesBC toward the apprentice's designation. The program suits individuals already registered as apprentices with an employer sponsor in industrial mechanics or millwrighting who are working through the standard BC apprenticeship structure toward full journeyperson certification, combining substantial hands-on machinery maintenance, troubleshooting, overhaul, and installation experience with periodic classroom-based technical instruction at KPU.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Admission requires completed KPU Apprentice Registration and an active apprentice registration in the BC Apprenticeship system, plus a valid Trade Worker Identification number from SkilledTradesBC; applicants without one must complete a SkilledTradesBC apprenticeship registration form before enrolling in Levels 1 through 4, and SkilledTradesBC determines eligibility. KPU's own admissions page states that apprenticeship programmes are not subject to KPU's undergraduate or vocational English Proficiency Requirement, so no English test score or high-school English course is required. KPU Tech does not permit students to register in Apprenticeship Levels out of sequence. This apprenticeship's own KPU Trades page adds that Millwright is a Red Seal trade: after the four levels of in-school technical training and 6,600 hours of on-the-job training, candidates who score 70% or higher on the inter-provincial millwright examination receive a SkilledTradesBC Certificate of Qualification with Interprovincial Red Seal Endorsement. Students must supply steel-toed safety boots, safety glasses and coveralls.
Application Details
Application Deadline:KPU classifies most programs as Open Intake, meaning every applicant who meets minimum institutional requirements is admitted without ranking, while a smaller set of Limited Intake programs closes earlier. For the Fall 2027 (September) term, both domestic and international applications open on 1 October 2026; Limited Intake programs have a firm deadline of 1 March 2027 and may close earlier if demand is high, while Open Intake programs stay open on a rolling basis through a confirmation-deposit deadline of 15 June 2027 to a final cutoff of 1 July 2027. Spring (January) and Summer (May) entry follow the same open/limited pattern on an earlier timeline, and KPU applies identical deadlines to domestic and international applicants throughout. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
