Apprentice Technician
CASTLECROFT MOTORS LIMITED
BURY (BL9 0LN)
Closes on Saturday 30 August 2025
Posted on 20 May 2025
Contents
Summary
We have an opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic Apprentice Vehicle Technician. As an apprentice, you'll play a key part in supporting the maintenance and repair of a range of vehicles, learning diagnostic skills, and gaining a comprehensive understanding of the automotive industry.
- Wage
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£16,881.80 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Autocare technician (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, 08:30 - 17:00 shifts. 1 day week at Mantra Learning 09:00 - 15:00.
42 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Wednesday 1 October 2025
- Duration
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1 year 7 months
- 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
- Work alongside skilled technicians to inspect, diagnose, and repair various vehicle systems, including engines, transmissions, brakes, and electrical components.
- Perform basic service tasks.
Learn to use diagnostic equipment and software to identify vehicle faults. - Ensure a clean, safe, and organised workspace by following all health, safety, and environmental protocols.
- Assist in completing service records and maintenance documentation, ensuring accuracy and attention to detail.
- Attend and participate in all training sessions with Mantra Learning.
Where you'll work
CASTLECROFT ROAD
BURY
BL9 0LN
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
MANTRA LEARNING LIMITED
Your training course
Autocare technician (level 2)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Comply with health and safety procedures in the workplace in compliance with regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Prepare the vehicle and working area before the work activity. For example, remove or mitigate slip and trip hazards.
- Maintain and restore the work area during and on completion of the activity.
- Store, maintain, including calibration checks, and return tools and equipment to storage.
- Access vehicle technical data to inform inspections and make judgements on wear and serviceability.
- Comply with environmental and sustainability procedures, regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling, and disposal.
- Apply vehicle safety inspection and routine maintenance procedures using vehicle specific data on car, car derived van or light goods vehicle.
- Select and use tools and equipment, mechanical and electrical measuring tools, and diagnostic equipment.
- Remove and replace vehicle tyre and balance wheel assemblies on car, car derived van or light goods vehicle. For example, ultra-low profile, directional, asymmetric, run-flat tyres.
- Remove, repair and replace vehicle tyre and balance wheel assemblies on car, car derived van or light goods vehicle. For example, ultra-low profile, directional, asymmetric, run-flat tyres.
- Inspect, remove, and replace of parts or components in cars, car derived vans, or light goods vehicles for the following: steering systems and suspension systems, braking systems, emission systems, air conditioning systems, battery and charging systems, fluid and filtration systems.
- Apply state-of-health condition monitoring tests to high voltage batteries and chargers for electrified cars, car derived vans, or light goods vehicles.
- Apply four-wheel geometry checks and adjustments to cars, car derived vans, and light goods vehicles.
- Apply safe working practices and procedures to isolate electrified vehicles for maintenance.
- Record vehicle service maintenance, parts replacement, or repair.
- Apply customer service principles and organisational customer care practices. For example, identifying customer and vehicle needs, resolve low level customer complaints, make recommendations to customers based on results of inspection, maintenance, or repair of vehicles, customer payment transactions and organisational sales processes.
- Provide quotation of cost and order automotive parts, products, and consumables applicable to the vehicle.
- Apply procedures for stock and parts storage: ordering, checking and stock rotation.
- Apply organisational sales processes. For example, show and tell, features and benefits, consultative selling, mini closing and closing.
- Apply team working principles.
- Comply with equity, diversity, and inclusion guidance.
- Communicate with others verbally, for example customers, suppliers, and colleagues.
- Communicate in writing, for example with internal and external customers, colleagues, and managers.
- Use information and digital technology systems. Comply with GDPR and cyber security.
- Complete and record learning and development activities.
- Apply procedures to check and replace fluids, and filtration parts.
- Comply with health and safety procedures in the workplace in compliance with regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Prepare the vehicle and working area before the work activity. For example, remove or mitigate slip and trip hazards.
- Maintain and restore the work area during and on completion of the activity.
- Store, maintain, including calibration checks, and return tools and equipment to storage.
- Access vehicle technical data to inform inspections and make judgements on wear and serviceability.
- Comply with environmental and sustainability procedures, regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling, and disposal.
- Apply vehicle safety inspection and routine maintenance procedures using vehicle specific data on car, car derived van or light goods vehicle.
- Select and use tools and equipment, mechanical and electrical measuring tools, and diagnostic equipment.
- Remove and replace vehicle tyre and balance wheel assemblies on car, car derived van or light goods vehicle. For example, ultra-low profile, directional, asymmetric, run-flat tyres.
- Remove, repair and replace vehicle tyre and balance wheel assemblies on car, car derived van or light goods vehicle. For example, ultra-low profile, directional, asymmetric, run-flat tyres.
- Inspect, remove, and replace of parts or components in cars, car derived vans, or light goods vehicles for the following: steering systems and suspension systems, braking systems, emission systems, air conditioning systems, battery and charging systems, fluid and filtration systems.
- Apply state-of-health condition monitoring tests to high voltage batteries and chargers for electrified cars, car derived vans, or light goods vehicles.
- Apply four-wheel geometry checks and adjustments to cars, car derived vans, and light goods vehicles.
- Apply safe working practices and procedures to isolate electrified vehicles for maintenance.
- Record vehicle service maintenance, parts replacement, or repair.
- Apply customer service principles and organisational customer care practices. For example, identifying customer and vehicle needs, resolve low level customer complaints, make recommendations to customers based on results of inspection, maintenance, or repair of vehicles, customer payment transactions and organisational sales processes.
- Provide quotation of cost and order automotive parts, products, and consumables applicable to the vehicle.
- Apply procedures for stock and parts storage: ordering, checking and stock rotation.
- Apply organisational sales processes. For example, show and tell, features and benefits, consultative selling, mini closing and closing.
- Apply team working principles.
- Comply with equity, diversity, and inclusion guidance.
- Communicate with others verbally, for example customers, suppliers, and colleagues.
- Communicate in writing, for example with internal and external customers, colleagues, and managers.
- Use information and digital technology systems. Comply with GDPR and cyber security.
- Complete and record learning and development activities.
- Apply procedures to check and replace fluids, and filtration parts.
Your training plan
1 day a week at Mantra Learning.
More training information
Get into the automotive industry with our Level 2 Autocare Technician apprenticeship. It allows you to get hands-on experience and earn while you learn from industry experts who will support you in gaining your nationally recognised qualification and on your career journey.
All of this is taught in safe, interactive and engaging facilities that replicate a real working environment. Alongside this, we use the Electude e-learning platform, which reimagines the ways technical students learn and retain information.
Requirements
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
- Attention to detail
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Physical fitness
About this company
Castlecroft Motors Ltd, Bury, has been servicing cars and light commercial goods vehicles for over 25 years. Due to our large workshop of over 6,000 sq ft we are able to cater for any car or commercial vehicle of up to 3.5 tonne at short notice. As well as servicing cars and light commercial vehicles up to 3.5 tonne we fit new tyres and undertake MOT checks.
After this apprenticeship
- Light Vehicle Level 3 apprenticeship.
- L2, 3 and 4 in Electrical and Hybrid Vehicle.
- MOT tester.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
MANTRA LEARNING LIMITED
Bea Trevor-Harris
bea.trevor-harris@mantralearning.co.uk
07926088185
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000321702.
Apply now
Closes on Saturday 30 August 2025
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Company’s application instructions
If you're interested in an Autocare apprenticeship please apply and a member of staff will be in contact with you to invite you to an Induction day to continue with the process.