Motor Vehicle Apprentice
COTTAGE STREET GARAGE LTD
MACCLESFIELD (SK10 5HT)
Closes in 23 days (Tuesday 27 May 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 1 May 2025
Contents
Summary
Cottage Street Garage are looking for a dedicated motor vehicle apprentice technician to work towards a Level 3 Motor Vehicle and Maintenance Technician Standard. You will be involved with general servicing and repairs, along with many other duties.
- Wage
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£14,526.20 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Motor vehicle service and maintenance technician - light vehicle (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday- Thursday
8.00am- 4.00pm
Friday
8.00am- 2.00pm
With 1 hour for lunch
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 2 June 2025
- 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
- Assisting with MOT work
- General repairs
- House keeping
- Brushing up
- Cleaning tools
- Ensure that admin and customer service duties are completed including updating job cards and providing quotations and estimates
- You will shadow qualified technicians to learn first hand how to service, maintain and repair vehicles, as you progress and your confidence and experience grows you will start completing tasks on your own
Where you'll work
WELLINGTON ROAD
BOLLINGTON
MACCLESFIELD
SK10 5HT
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
MACCLESFIELD COLLEGE
Your training course
Motor vehicle service and maintenance technician - light vehicle (level 3)
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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.
Your training plan
Level 3 Motor Vehicle Service and Maintenance Technician - Light Vehicle Apprenticeship Qualification
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE or equivalent in:
- English (grade 4/C+)
- Maths (grade 4/C+)
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Attention to detail
- Problem solving skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Patience
About this company
Wellington Road Garage are based in Bollington, Macclesfield, SK10 5HT.
After this apprenticeship
- There may be a fulltime position available upon the successful completion of this apprenticeship
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
MACCLESFIELD COLLEGE
Maxim Business Training
apprenticeshiprecruitment@macclesfield.ac.uk
01625410022
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000316987.
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Closes in 23 days (Tuesday 27 May 2025 at 11:59pm)
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