The Apprentice Trailer & Body Builder of the Year Award will be presented to an individual who has demonstrated advanced ability as they undergo their apprenticeship in a discipline related to heavy vehicle manufacture.
Australia’s world-class heavy vehicle manufacturing industry depends on our emerging talent pool, with the skills to produce innovative and productive vehicles, built to tackle Australia’s unique and diverse freight task.
The new award covers our vital manufacturing sector trades including Certificate III in Automotive Manufacturing Technical Operations – Bus, Truck and Trailer, and other HVIA member employees whose trade might be fabricator, boiler maker, fitter and turner or other trades directly applicable to heavy vehicle manufacturing and body-building.
***All nominees will also be considered for the new Heavy Vehicle Apprentice of the Year Award***
Thanks to HVIA Principal Partner and the HVIA National Awards major sponsor National Transport Insurance and TruckAssist, winners of the three apprentice award categories will each win a hosted VIP experience at the Gold Coast 500 Supercars event.
- After the initial nomination is assessed by judges, every nominee in the apprentice categories will be asked to sit a thirty-minute online quiz. This exam has been prepared by TAFE Queensland as part of the assessment of nominees.
- Finalists will also be asked to participate in an online interview (10-15 minutes) as the final part of the adjudication process.
Score weighting
Nomination: (50/100)
- Experience (testimony by nominator) 10
- Technical aptitude (nominator) 10
- Interaction and teamwork(nominator) 10
- Attitude (nominator) 10
- Career Goals (written by nominee) 10
Online Test: (20/100)
- All nominees invited to participate 20
Final interview (30/100)
Top five candidates are interviewed online – based on combined scores above.
- Maximum fifteen minutes
- Questions the same for all candidates
- Interviews pursue confirmation and expansion of the testimony provided in the nomination
- Judged proportionately against the same five criteria
All category Finalists will be invited to attend the HVIA Gala Awards Dinner.
