Light Vehicle Technician Apprenticeship
The MOT Service Centre Tipton
WEST MIDLANDS (DY4 9AB)
Closes in 13 days (Monday 18 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 4 August 2025
Contents
Summary
The apprentice will play a key role in ensuring the business meet its key goals and targets. An average day for an employee would be a punctual start. Completing work to a high standard. Communicating with the workshop and office staff, and assisting customers.
- Wage
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£14,526.20 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:
8.30am- 5.00pm
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 25 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
Duties to include:
- Housekeeping
- Maintaining Record/ Job cards
- Maintenance repair/ Diagnosing Fault finding
- Communicating with workshop and office staff
- Assisting customers
Where you'll work
T/A MOT SERVICE CENTRE
UNIT 1 HURST LANE
TIPTON
WEST MIDLANDS
DY4 9AB
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
CITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON COLLEGE
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.
Training schedule
Training will take place at City of Wolverhampton College (Wellington Road Campus) one day per week
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Problem solving skills
Other requirements
Busy working environment with a high level of customer service.
About this employer
It is imperative to get a Car Service routinely to ensure your vehicle's exemplary performance. To avoid any unprecedented vehicle breakdowns and accidents, car servicing has a crucial role to play. At MOT Service Centre, our experts conduct MOT check Tipton and inspections on different components of your car. We provide you with interim service, full service, major service and seasonal checks.
After this apprenticeship
- Qualified vehicle technician/ Supervisory Role/ MOT Tester
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
CITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON COLLEGE
Laura Aston
headl@wolvcoll.ac.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000335427.
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Closes in 13 days (Monday 18 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
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