Apprentice Motor Vehicle Technician
MARTIN RICHINGS MOTOR REPAIRERS LTD
CHIPPING SODBURY (BS37 6AA)
Closes in 16 days (Sunday 20 July 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 3 July 2025
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Summary
This is a great opportunity to work within a small but busy independent garage as part of a supportive team. You will be mentored to learn how to service and maintain vehicles and gain valuable experience of the motor trade. We offer exceptional customer service and our quality of work is highly praised.
- Wage
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£15,704 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 to Friday 08:30 – 17:30.
1 Hour break.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 11 August 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
- MOT and Servicing.
- Tyre changes.
- Inspections.
- Diagnostics.
- This Apprenticeship will be delivered in City of Bristol Colleges Advanced Motor Vehicle Technology Centre in Parkway.
- The course is delivered as block release and you will be in College for 2 week blocks 5 times a year.
- The College is a 5 min walk from Bristol Parkway Train Station and has excellent transport links. Outside of the College days, you will be working with us in our Workshop.
Where you'll work
UNIT 5
TT TRADING ESTATE
HATTERS LANE
CHIPPING SODBURY
BS37 6AA
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
CITY OF BRISTOL 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
What training will the apprentice take and what qualification will the apprentice get at the end?
- Motor Vehicle and Maintenance Technician (Light Vehicle) Level 3.
- Servicing and repairing light vehicles.
- City of Bristol College (Parkway).
- Block Release.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
English & 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
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Willing to learn
- Has a passion for cars
Other requirements
Uniform supplied.
About this company
In the UK, MARTIN RICHINGS MOTOR REPAIRS LIMITED is registered and has a licence to perform MOT checks and is registered by the Department of Transport DVSA. Each of their expert testers carrying out the MOT inspections are also trained and certified.
After this apprenticeship
Full time employment.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
CITY OF BRISTOL COLLEGE
Business Partnerships and Onboarding Team
apprentice@cityofbristol.ac.uk
01173125250
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000326421.
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Closes in 16 days (Sunday 20 July 2025 at 11:59pm)
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