Apprentice Motor Vehicle Technician/Mechanic
WELFARE REPAIR LIMITED
MALTBY (S66 7QR)
Closes in 17 days (Friday 28 August 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 11 August 2026
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Summary
Begin your career as a technician!
Want hands-on experience, real skills, and the chance to learn from trained professionals who genuinely invest in you? Welfare Repair is looking for a motivated individual to join their highly skilled team at their Maltby workshop as an apprentice Technician/Mechanic.
- Wage
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£16,640 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)
Pay will be reviewed upon performance and successful completion of apprenticeship
- Training course
- Motor vehicle service and maintenance technician - light vehicle (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday (with one day per-week spent training at college), 08:00 - 17:00.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 31 August 2026
- Duration
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3 years
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
Your training and responsibilities as an Apprentice Technician/Mechanic, will include (but not be limited to) the following:
- Contribute to the maintenance of a safe and efficient workshop
- Complete a range of services/repairs and inspect and prepare a vehicle to the required quality standard for handover to the customer
- Use a range of diagnostic equipment
- Remove and replace a range of parts and components where repair is not possible
- Engage customers and provide a consistently good service
- Maintaining a clean, organised and productive work area for colleagues and yourself
- When trained, ensure job timings are met/exceeded
You’ll develop your skills alongside time-served Techs who are eager to pass on their knowledge, help you learn a variety of duties and support the whole garage. You’ll be taught and mentored to achieve your full potential and become another fully qualified member of the team.
If you have a strong interest in vehicle repair, already completed a Level 1 or 2 course and are committed and ready to take your first step into a career, then please apply now! This apprenticeship and opportunity with Welfare Repair will be highly competitive, so don’t miss your chance!
Where you'll work
UNIT B23
AVEN INDUSTRIAL PARK
TICKHILL ROAD
MALTBY
S66 7QR
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
RNN GROUP
Training course
Motor vehicle service and maintenance technician - light vehicle (level 3)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
What you'll learn
Course contents
- Contribute to the maintenance of a safe and efficient workshop. Segregate waste for disposal or recycling. Comply with industry environmental legislation.
- Demonstrate due regard for own safety and that of others in the workshop and minimise risk of injury and vehicle damage.
- Carry out fundamental tasks associated with removal and replacement procedures on a vehicle.
- Obtain diagnostic and repair information.
- Interpret diagnostic information and use electrical wiring diagrams to determine system serviceability.
- Use a range of diagnostic equipment.
- Follow recognised diagnostic procedures, logical diagnostic sequence and apply advanced diagnostic principles and problem-solving techniques to establish faults.
- Report faults using company procedures and recommend suitable further actions.
- Follow recognised repair procedures to complete a wide range of repairs including those which involve complex procedures, or in depth knowledge.
- Test the function of repaired and fitted components.
- Adhere to business processes and complete documentation following workplace procedures.
- Use ICT to create emails, word-process documents and carry out web based searches.
- Complete a range of services and inspect and prepare a vehicle to the required quality standard for handover to the customer.
- Contribute to the maintenance of a safe and efficient workshop. Segregate waste for disposal or recycling. Comply with industry environmental legislation.
- Demonstrate due regard for own safety and that of others in the workshop and minimise risk of injury and vehicle damage.
- Carry out fundamental tasks associated with removal and replacement procedures on a vehicle.
- Obtain diagnostic and repair information.
- Interpret diagnostic information and use electrical wiring diagrams to determine system serviceability.
- Use a range of diagnostic equipment.
- Follow recognised diagnostic procedures, logical diagnostic sequence and apply advanced diagnostic principles and problem-solving techniques to establish faults.
- Report faults using company procedures and recommend suitable further actions.
- Follow recognised repair procedures to complete a wide range of repairs including those which involve complex procedures, or in depth knowledge.
- Test the function of repaired and fitted components.
- Adhere to business processes and complete documentation following workplace procedures.
- Use ICT to create emails, word-process documents and carry out web based searches.
- Complete a range of services and inspect and prepare a vehicle to the required quality standard for handover to the customer.
Training schedule
The successful candidate will continue their studies with apprenticeship specialists; RNN Group at their dedicated motor vehicle training centre based at the Dearne Valley Campus (Rotherham). You’d attend on a day release format, giving you the training and support you need to become an all-rounded and qualified Technician/Mechanic.
More training information
This employer is ideally looking for an individual that has already completed some initial training or a full-time Motor Vehicle college course.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Administrative skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Work under pressure
- Ability to prioritise workload
Other requirements
This is a successful business with a fantastic reputation that works to a tight schedule. They are looking for someone who can get there in a morning punctually (think about the location of the business and transport links), listen/learn and use their own initiative to quickly become a valued and productive member of the team.
Please consider that this business is ideally looking for someone with some experience working on vehicles or who has already completed a course. Also, because of the location, the ideal candidate will need to have a mode of transport to get there.
About this employer
Welfare Repair is an independent and well-trusted automotive business who take immense pride in providing their customers with an exceptional service. Initially set-up to service welfare associated equipment and vehicles, the business has quickly evolved into taking jobs of all nature on a wide range of vehicles/customers.
They carry out everything an apprentice would need to cover, including Servicing, Repairs, Diagnostics and wheel alignment. If you have some experience or have completed a motor vehicle course already, please apply now.
Company benefits
- Company pension (dependant on circumstances)
- On-site parking
- Sick pay (contractual terms apply)
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
Further industry appropriate training.
A lasting career in the motor vehicle industry with Welfare Repair Ltd.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
RNN GROUP
Lorraine
lorraine.savage@rnngroup.ac.uk
07713 319356
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000047608.
Apply now
Closes in 17 days (Friday 28 August 2026 at 11:59pm)