Apprentice Technician
CARWISE (DERBY) LTD
DERBYSHIRE (DE56 4EL)
Closes on Friday 8 August 2025
Posted on 19 June 2025
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Summary
Carwise are hiring an Motor Vehicle Technician Apprentice to join their team. In this role, you’ll be servicing both customer and sales vehicles, carrying out MOT repairs, and performing general workshop duties.
- Wage
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£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
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20 Days' holiday plus bank holidays
- Training course
- Motor vehicle service and maintenance technician - light vehicle (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday – Friday between 8.15am – 5.15am.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 September 2025
- Duration
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2 years 6 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
- Servicing cars
- Carrying out MOT repairs
- Removing and replacing front/rear brake discs/pads
- Being aware of the workshop environment
- Adhering to HSE
- Cleaning/maintenance of workshop equipment
Where you'll work
MILFORD ROAD
DUFFIELD
DERBYSHIRE
DE56 4EL
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
DCG
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
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade C/4 or above)
- Maths (grade C/4 or above)
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
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Willing to learn
- Ability to listen
- Confident to ask questions
Other requirements
Location – Please ensure that you can travel to work and home.
About this company
Carwise is a small independent business based in Duffield, which has been trading for 31 years. You will be working within a small team of 6 staff members.
After this apprenticeship
Qualified Technician.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
DCG
Isabelle Torrance
isabelle.torrance@derby-college.ac.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000326952.
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Closes on Friday 8 August 2025
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