Okanagan College offers Trades - Apprenticeship in Automotive Glass Technician: Apprenticeship, a trades - apprenticeship in Aerospace & Automotive Engineering programme in Kelowna, Canada. The programme runs for 3 weeks, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition is CAD 505 per total for local students.
This apprenticeship covers the removal, installation, repair, and general servicing of stationary and movable glass in motor vehicles and related equipment, a narrower automotive specialty distinct from body or refinishing work. Technical training runs at the Kelowna Trades Complex on a full-time, on-campus basis; the program's Level 1 block is three weeks of classroom and shop instruction, and apprentices complete two weeks of technical instruction in total over the two-year apprenticeship period, with intake capped at 16 seats. Coursework addresses shop safety, protection of vehicle interiors and paint during glass work, damage assessment, glass removal and installation procedures, supplemental restraint system considerations around sensors mounted near glass, windshield repair techniques, and template preparation for replacement glass. On finishing the technical levels, apprentices sit provincial and national qualification exams, for which valid government-issued photo identification is required. Entry requires registration as an apprentice with SkilledTradesBC and employment with a shop that has at least one qualified journeyperson glass technician on staff to supervise on-the-job hours. The program is intended for people already working in automotive glass repair who need the classroom technical-training component of their apprenticeship, not as a standalone introduction to the trade.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Automotive Glass Technician: Apprenticeship is an apprenticeship-level program at Okanagan College: admission requires the applicant to already be registered as an apprentice with SkilledTradesBC and employed by an employer with at least one qualified journeyperson in the trade. The program page notes that an applicant who is not yet registered can have their employer register them through SkilledTradesBC's online portal, described as free, simple and completable within a few minutes. No secondary-school course, grade minimum, or English-language proficiency test is stated as a requirement at this apprenticeship level; entry is administered through the SkilledTradesBC apprenticeship system and employer sponsorship rather than through the College's own academic admission requirements. Applicants should confirm current registration status directly with SkilledTradesBC before applying to the program intake.
Application Details
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants apply through EducationPlannerBC (a $30 CAD fee): Okanagan College sets no fixed closing date for most programmes in the 2026-27/2027-28 cycle. Applications for a Fall intake open at 8:30 a.m. on October's first business day of the preceding year, and for a Winter intake at 8:30 a.m. on February's first business day of the preceding year (exceptions apply); Practical Nursing's January intake opens at 9:00 a.m. on April's first business day of the preceding year. Most programmes accept applications until seats fill, though Nursing and Dental programmes set their own fixed or ranked deadlines on their own pages. International applicants also apply through EducationPlannerBC, paying a $100 CAD per-programme fee; the College publishes no institution-wide international closing date and directs applicants to each programme's own page. Admission is otherwise rolling. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
