Heavy Vehicle Technician Apprenticeship

BCA AUTOMOTIVE LTD

3 Princewood Road (NN17 4AP)

Closes in 14 days (Monday 18 August 2025)

Posted on 4 August 2025

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Summary

This apprenticeship is the level 3 Heavy Vehicle Service & Maintenance Technician standard programme with BCA Automotive Fleet based at CTS Corby, NN17 4AP. As an HGV Mechanic Technician apprentice, you will learn how to maintain and repair trucks and buses to the manufacturers and DSVA standard.

Wage

£18,096 a year

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Training course
Heavy vehicle service and maintenance technician (level 3)
Hours
Monday - Friday, Shifts to be confirmed.

40 hours a week

Start date

Monday 8 September 2025

Duration

2 years 8 months

Positions available

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

BCA Automotive Fleet, based at CTS Corby, are looking to recruit an HGV Technician apprentice.

What you’ll be learning:

As an HGV Technician, your role will involve diagnosing faults, performing services, and carrying out repairs on HGVs and buses

Throughout your apprenticeship, you will learn to:

Reporting to the Workshop Manager, the key responsibilities will be, but not limited to:

  • Perform vehicle servicing and inspections
  • Carry out both general and preventative maintenance
  • Repair and replace vehicle parts as needed
  • Diagnose faults using advanced onboard diagnostic systems

While also:

  • Ensure that all job cards and service/inspections sheets are completed properly and legibly
  • Understand and work according to parts order procedures, warranty claims and exchange items
  • Ensure that customer requirements and expectations are met
  • Maintain a high standard of cleanliness and tidiness

Training delivery:

  • In this programme, all aspects of heavy vehicle technology are embedded in this dedicated programme and involves a mix of academic learning and on-the-job training
  • Practical learning in the workplace, shadowing your mentor and carrying out the work while being supervised
  • Online studies, completing workbooks and job cards, attending online sessions and virtual classes with your Development Coach, all done during your working day
  • Attending block release to the Remit Training Academy in Derby every 2 months. All costs of your hotel food and accommodation plus all travel arrangements are covered by BCA/CTS

Where you'll work

3 Princewood Road
NN17 4AP

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

REMIT GROUP LIMITED

Training course

Heavy vehicle service and maintenance technician (level 3)

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What you'll learn

Course contents
  • Carry out the basic tasks with tools and equipment common to all procedures involving basic mechanical and electrical procedures related to HV
  • The ability to keep updated with emerging new technologies within the HV industry.
  • Contribute to the maintenance of a safe and efficient workshop and adhere to the company and legislative processes.
  • Access specific and related HV technical information appropriately.
  • The ability to service, inspect and maintain HVs and trailers to meet company, Driver and vehicle standards agency (DVSA) and manufacturers’ standards.
  • Use a range of diagnostic and electrical measuring equipment to identify faults and underlying causes on HV’s.
  • Successfully inspect and prepare vehicles and trailers to meet DVSA standards prescribed in the tester’s manual.
  • Carry out final quality checks before handover to the customer without supervision.
  • Apply advanced diagnostic principles and logical/problem solving techniques and regimes.
  • Maintain records to company and operators’ licence obligations and regulation.
  • To be able to communicate effectively in both oral and written mediums both internally and with customers on a range of topics that will support, HV inspection and diagnosing techniques.

Training schedule

Training is delivered in the workplace and on block release to Remit’s Automotive Academy in Derby.

There are a total of 16 x 1 week blocks over the 32 month programme. The costs of hotel accommodation, food and travel are met by the employer and there will be no cost to you.

You will also receive 1-2-1 support from your Development Coach to help you achieve:

IMI Heavy Vehicle Service and Maintenance Technician Level 3

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

  • English (grade 4/C)
  • Maths (grade 4/C)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Attention to detail
  • Mechanically minded

Other requirements

Closing Dates: Please submit your application along with your CV as soon as possible to avoid disappointment; we reserve the right to close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of applications.

About this employer

BCA have been bringing together buyers and sellers for nearly 70 years Starting in 1946 as Southern Counties Car Auctions they were one of the first companies to let people across the UK buy and sell a wide range of cars at auction from budget runarounds to imports.

After this apprenticeship

  • BCA provide all their apprentices with the skills needed to become fully qualified and competent individuals with a secure vocation
  • A BCA trained apprentice will become a top class asset to their business for years to come

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

REMIT GROUP LIMITED

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000335337.

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Closes in 14 days (Monday 18 August 2025)

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