Motor Vehicle Apprenticeship
RUSHEY GREEN GARAGE LTD
London (SE6 4JF)
Closes on Monday 8 September 2025
Posted on 15 May 2025
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Summary
A candidate to shadow senior vehicle technicians, learning about motor vehicle workshops, assisting MOT testers, progression to complete basic mechanical tasks, progression to complete basic mechanical tasks independently.
- Wage
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£11,778 to £19,047.60, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
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£320.88 a week
- Training course
- Motor vehicle service and maintenance technician - light vehicle (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday 8am to 5:30pm
30 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 15 September 2025
- Duration
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3 years
- Positions available
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2
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
- Learning operation MV workshop
- Learning tools and their safe operation
- Health and safety compliance
- Assisting MV technicians
- Assisting MOT tester
- Keeping workshop clean, tidy and safe
- Misc tasks in relation to safe working of a commercial independent dealership
Where you'll work
2-10 Rushey Green
London
SE6 4JF
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
LONDON SOUTH EAST COLLEGES
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
Motor Vehicle Service and Maintenance Technician - light vehicle Level 3.
Training will include day release at college once a week.
On the job training will be given on a daily basis.
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
Maths & English (grade Grades 4-9 (A*- 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
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Patience
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
Full UK driving license or working towards.
About this company
Independent motor vehicle dealership - selling used cars, mechanical repairs to all makes and models of vehicle, accident repair body shop, MOT testing, brakes, exhausts, tyres, batteries, diagnostics, AC work.
After this apprenticeship
- Motor Vehicle Technician
- Senior Motor Vehicle Technician
- Diagnostic Technician
- Workshop Manager
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LONDON SOUTH EAST COLLEGES
Evelyn Nartey
evelyn.nartey@lsec.ac.uk
02039544152
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000320980.
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Closes on Monday 8 September 2025
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