About Us

Silver Trowel offer a variety of construction skills training courses for bricklaying, solid plastering and roof tiling as well as trade apprenticeship training in bricklaying, roof tiling and solid plastering; traineeships in concreting and general construction. Silver Trowel’s two week intensive bricklaying skills course provides job placement assistance within the construction industry on successful completion of the course.

Silver Trowel has been developing industry networks and jobseeker opportunities since 1997

Company History

Established in 1997, Silver Trowel was founded on a belief that there are more efficient ways of helping people enter the building industry. Recognising a massive shortage of skilled workers within the industry, Jon Skerratt set out to achieve the impossible. With fewer and fewer people taking up trade positions along with an unprecedented building boom in Australia the demand for skilled workers is greater than ever.

Today, with incredible success, Silver Trowel are recognised by builders and government agencies as pioneers in helping men and women of all ages find rewarding and well paid careers within the building and construction industry.

Quality Standards

Silver Trowel Trade Training is a Registered Training Organisation, which means we must demonstrate and maintain strict standards as specified by the AQTF Australian Quality Training Framework.

Because of this Silver Trowel Trade Training can issue nationally recognised qualifications and statements of attainment.

Our systems and processes are quality based and are regularly audited, both externally and internally against the AQTF national standards.

Professional Staff

Our facilitation staff all possess extensive experience gained through employment in the private sector, government and commerce. All our trainers are fully certified and hold at a minimum Certificate IV training and Assessment