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Business nominee courses and qualifications

Requirements for those responsible for the business management and administration of electrical contracting work.

Courses

Below is a list of courses accepted by ESV as meeting the requirements for a person to be responsible for the business management and administration of electrical contracting work.

This list of courses is not a complete list and other courses may be acceptable.

To be accepted, a course must cover the majority of the following aspects of running a business.

Formal processes to meet technical, managerial, occupational and workplace relations obligations in a contracting business including:

  • Records
  • Taxation
  • Budgeting
  • Project Management Factors influencing the performance of a contracting business
  • Regulations for electrical work
  • Assessing and mitigating risk
  • Legal options for the business structure
  • Focus of the business
  • Legal rights and responsibilities
  • Insurance requirements
  • Preparing marketing plans
  • Estimating
  • Profit margins
Course code Course name
EA 102

Establishing a Contracting Business

S130017

Registered Electrical Contractors Course

ETF13*

Registered Electrical Contractors Course

VBQU451*

Conduct an electrical contracting business

VU21527*

Conduct an electrical contracting business

VU22723

Prepare to set up and operate an electrical contracting business

NECREC001

Registered Electrical Contractors Course (NECA Course)

CFU001

Registered Electrical Contractors Course (Centre for U)

B340EL06

Establishing an Electrical Contracting Business

UEENEEG075A*

Develop compliance policies and plans to conduct a contracting business

UEENEEG175A*

Develop compliance policies and plans to conduct a contracting business

UEEEL0040

Develop compliance policies and plans to conduct an electrical contracting business

BSB40407*

Certificate IV in Small Business Management

BSB40415*

Certificate IV in Small Business Management

BSB42615*

Certificate IV in New Small Business

BSB42618*

Certificate IV in New Small Business

BSB40320

Certificate IV in Entrepreneurship and New Business

BSB60407*

Advanced Diploma of Management

BSB61015*

Advanced Diploma of Leadership and Management

BSB60420

Advanced Diploma of Leadership and Management

BSB50215*

Diploma of Business

BSB50120

Diploma of Business

BSB50401*

Diploma of Business Management

BSB51107*

Diploma of Management and finance for non-finance managers

BSB51915*

Diploma of Leadership and Management

BSB51918*

Diploma of Leadership and Management

BSB50420

Diploma of Leadership and Management

CPC50220

Diploma of Building and Construction (Building)

University Degrees

Bachelor or Masters of Business (Accounting)

University Degrees

Bachelor or Masters of Business (Administration)

University Degree

Bachelor or Masters of Business

University Degree

Bachelor of Commerce accept all streams

University Degree

Master of Business and Technology

University Degree

Bachelor of Economics with the Bachelor of Laws

Note: Course codes marked with an * are superseded courses. While they may be no longer available for new enrolments, ESV will still accept them for REC business nominee registration purposes.

Experience

If the business supervisors does not hold the above qualification, they may also apply under experience.

Evidence is required demonstrating that the nominated business supervisor has managed an electrical contracting business for a minimum of five years or more. In this instance, a detailed account of the experience on a separate sheet is required to be submitted with the nomination form:

Business Supervisor Nomination Consent Form

Date: 28/09/2023 15:16

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Reviewed 28 January 2023

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