The CTTC is designed to meet the demanding competency-based skill requirements of today's industry.

Technical competencies must be complemented by skilled technicians who possess the right attitude and behaviours to operate in a highly technical environment that ensures no harm to people, equipment or the environment.

Technicians are given the unique opportunity to put their workshop-based practical skills and theoretical knowledge into practice on the Operations Training Plant (OTP), which provides experiential learning in:

• Basic operations training
• Plant start-up and shutdown
• Steady-state operation and control
• Plant upset control and management, including emergency response
• Unit and plant isolations for maintenance
• Fault-finding, diagnosis and troubleshooting
• Mechanical, electrical and instrument planned
and corrective maintenance execution

Typical experiential-based courses include: