Vecta - Level 3 Apprentice Motor Vehicle Service and Maintenance Technician
Vecta
EAST BOLDON (NE36 0TB)
Closes in 23 days (Thursday 24 July 2025)
Posted on 30 June 2025
Contents
Summary
Are you passionate about cars and eager to learn Vecta is looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Level 3 Motor Vehicle Service and Maintenance Technician Apprentice to join the team.
- Wage
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£14,918.80 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 - Friday, 8.00am - 4.00pm
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 9 September 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
Responsibilities:
- Assist experienced mechanics in performing routine maintenance and repairs on various types of vehicles
- Learn to diagnose and troubleshoot mechanical issues using diagnostic tools and equipment
- Perform basic tasks such as oil changes, tire rotations, and brake inspections
- Maintain a clean and organised workspace
- Follow safety protocols and procedures to ensure a safe working environment
- Communicate effectively with team members and customers
Where you'll work
10 HUNTER CLOSE
EAST BOLDON
NE36 0TB
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
NCG
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 Apprenticeship Standard - 4 days per week at Vecta
- 1 day per week at Newcastle College
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
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
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
- Technical Aptitude
- Physical Stamina
- Willingness to Learn
- Reliability
About this company
Vecta are a supplier to Nissan Motor Manufacturing UK. The role is based on the Nissan site within the Vecta’s garage. The garage maintains all of the vehicle used around the site at Nissan and the fleet management services and maintains vehicles for other Nissan suppliers on site.
After this apprenticeship
- Progress to full time employment with the garage on completion of apprenticeship
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
NCG
Newcastle College
apprenticeships@ncl-coll.ac.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000328852.
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Closes in 23 days (Thursday 24 July 2025)
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