Irrigation Australia Certification

Certification prepares and equips Irrigation Professionals with expertise and key competencies. Certification improves your marketability, your employability, and your earning potential.

What is
Certification

Certification is a voluntary, national program of industry recognition. Certification is a designation earned by a person to certify that he or she is qualified to perform a job. Certification indicates that the individual has a minimum set of knowledge, skills, or abilities in the view of the certifying body to perform their job to the satisfaction of water managers and customers

learning from experience

Specialist Certification

Building on your Knowledge

Certified Irrigation Professionals

"The certification takes you down the path to make you a better designer, it enhances your skills and make you more employable"

Peter Chadband

Irrigation Designer

How to Apply & Ongoing Commitment

To prove these competencies you have to get a Statement of Attainment for each of your nominated competencies from a relevant Registered Training Organisation (RTO). Irrigation Australia operates its own RTO (RTO 91313) – Irrigation Training Australia.

Competencies maybe gained through

Face‐to‐face: course work is usually conducted in a classroom situation
Distance learning: done by correspondence, online, phone or any method that is not classroom‐based. On‐the‐job training: training conducted in the workplace
RPL – recognition of prior learning: both formal and informal learning is assessed toward a qualification.

To Apply

Complete the online application form including your work history (available on each certification page)
Attach Statements of Attainment or academic transcripts covering the relevant competencies that you have already achieved (Do not send your originals. Send “sighted” copies which have been verified by a JP as an accurate copy of the original).
If you have no academic records you can apply for RPL (recognised prior learning) based on your work experience (at an additional cost), simply indicate this on the application form for a team member to work through this process with you
Pay the relevant fee on submission of the application form online