Construction Plant Apprentice
AT PLANT SERVICES LTD
CHESHIRE (WA3 6PL)
Closes in 6 days (Friday 14 November 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 7 November 2025
Contents
Summary
Your job would fall into one of two areas– preventative (servicing) maintenance and emergency maintenance (breakdowns). To provide a reliable and fast service to companies operating in the road construction plant industry. This is a fantastic opportunity for the right candidate to earn a salary and gain a level 3 qualification.
- 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
- Land-based service engineering technician (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm. Shifts to be discussed at interview stage.
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 26 January 2026
- 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
Your job would fall into one of two areas– preventative (servicing) maintenance and emergency maintenance (breakdowns).
In preventative maintenance, your duties would include:
- Making scheduled checks on machinery and parts
- Finding and fixing faults, and recalibrating instruments
- Oiling and cleaning machinery and parts
- Carrying out scheduled overhauls and replacing parts that have reached the end of their working life
Emergency maintenance tasks would include:
- Responding immediately to machinery breakdowns
- Fixing faults on site or arranging for replacement equipment to be installed
Where you'll work
UNIT 12
ADDLINGTON COURT
BIRCHWOOD WARRINGTON
CHESHIRE
WA3 6PL
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
REASEHEATH COLLEGE
Training course
Land-based service engineering technician (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Interpret technical data, documentation, schematic diagrams, wiring diagrams and technical specifications.
- Work in accordance with Safe Systems of Work and apply control measures such as Health and Safety at Work Act, lone working, working at height and risk assessments adopting mitigation measures to safeguard, bystanders, the public, property and livestock.
- Use digital equipment to interrogate land-based machinery, equipment and prime mover performance and extract data and communicate to stakeholders.
- Obtain information from colleagues and stakeholders employing a range of techniques.
- Establish the information required to perform an efficient and effective diagnosis.
- Communicate technical matters to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Perform repairs of technologically advanced land-based machinery, equipment and prime movers in accordance with manufacturer's guidelines and industry standards.
- Measure and assess wear tolerances and deformation in line with manufacturer instructions or guidance.
- Identify components that require either repair or replacement, including providing alternative solutions for repair or replacement as appropriate.
- Repair or replace component parts in accordance with manufacturer guidelines.
- Establish and replicate the circumstances and conditions that give rise to reported faults.
- Determine whether reported symptoms are a characteristic or a fault.
- Diagnose faults and reported underperformance of land-based machinery, equipment and prime movers using approved diagnostic procedures and equipment and logical problem-solving techniques.
- Maintain, interrogate, calibrate and repair electronic equipment and systems, including precision technology, electronic management systems, telemetry, autonomous and automated operations used in the land-based sector.
- Differentiate between the root cause and symptom of land-based machinery, equipment and prime mover failures.
- Identify crop, soil, climatic and environmental factors that impact on the performance of land-based machinery, equipment and prime movers.
- Identify the equipment settings appropriate to the working conditions giving due consideration to crop, soil types, conditions and environments, weather and climatic conditions.
- Perform verification tests to check performance against manufacturer specification land-based machinery, equipment and prime mover performance.
- Identify stakeholder requirements and provide tailored advice that informs their selection and operation of appropriate machinery, equipment and prime movers to meet the land based environment in which it will be operated.
- Applies supervision and mentoring techniques to support junior colleagues' development.
- Plan and prepare maintenance or repair work schedules for showing task allocation, sequencing, workflow and time management.
- Compile technical reports and statements.
- Provide technical input to facilitate the compilation of repair schedules, action plans, quotations and estimates.
- Identify the parts and services required to enable the reinstatement of land-based machinery, equipment and prime movers for the purposes of estimates and quotations.
- Perform installation and handover of machinery, equipment and prime movers, explaining their safe operation, the settings required for the environmental conditions and application, the maintenance and warranty requirements.
- Establish level of customer understanding of how to operate the machinery or equipment following installation and handover.
- Use predictive and preventative maintenance effectively to minimise land-based machinery, equipment and prime mover downtime.
- Identify toxic and hazardous substances and environments and apply suitable and sustainable control measures.
- Dispose of equipment, components and substances in accordance with environmental regulations, industry standards and company policy.
- Keep up to date with advances in environment land-based working practices and the land-based engineering technologies and share best practice.
- How contextual factors (including operational techniques, application, crop, soil types and conditions, environments, weather and climatic conditions) impact on machine performance and faults.
- Repair complex electrical and electronic systems in accordance with job requirements.
- Interpret technical data, documentation, schematic diagrams, wiring diagrams and technical specifications.
- Work in accordance with Safe Systems of Work and apply control measures such as Health and Safety at Work Act, lone working, working at height and risk assessments adopting mitigation measures to safeguard, bystanders, the public, property and livestock.
- Use digital equipment to interrogate land-based machinery, equipment and prime mover performance and extract data and communicate to stakeholders.
- Obtain information from colleagues and stakeholders employing a range of techniques.
- Establish the information required to perform an efficient and effective diagnosis.
- Communicate technical matters to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Perform repairs of technologically advanced land-based machinery, equipment and prime movers in accordance with manufacturer's guidelines and industry standards.
- Measure and assess wear tolerances and deformation in line with manufacturer instructions or guidance.
- Identify components that require either repair or replacement, including providing alternative solutions for repair or replacement as appropriate.
- Repair or replace component parts in accordance with manufacturer guidelines.
- Establish and replicate the circumstances and conditions that give rise to reported faults.
- Determine whether reported symptoms are a characteristic or a fault.
- Diagnose faults and reported underperformance of land-based machinery, equipment and prime movers using approved diagnostic procedures and equipment and logical problem-solving techniques.
- Maintain, interrogate, calibrate and repair electronic equipment and systems, including precision technology, electronic management systems, telemetry, autonomous and automated operations used in the land-based sector.
- Differentiate between the root cause and symptom of land-based machinery, equipment and prime mover failures.
- Identify crop, soil, climatic and environmental factors that impact on the performance of land-based machinery, equipment and prime movers.
- Identify the equipment settings appropriate to the working conditions giving due consideration to crop, soil types, conditions and environments, weather and climatic conditions.
- Perform verification tests to check performance against manufacturer specification land-based machinery, equipment and prime mover performance.
- Identify stakeholder requirements and provide tailored advice that informs their selection and operation of appropriate machinery, equipment and prime movers to meet the land based environment in which it will be operated.
- Applies supervision and mentoring techniques to support junior colleagues' development.
- Plan and prepare maintenance or repair work schedules for showing task allocation, sequencing, workflow and time management.
- Compile technical reports and statements.
- Provide technical input to facilitate the compilation of repair schedules, action plans, quotations and estimates.
- Identify the parts and services required to enable the reinstatement of land-based machinery, equipment and prime movers for the purposes of estimates and quotations.
- Perform installation and handover of machinery, equipment and prime movers, explaining their safe operation, the settings required for the environmental conditions and application, the maintenance and warranty requirements.
- Establish level of customer understanding of how to operate the machinery or equipment following installation and handover.
- Use predictive and preventative maintenance effectively to minimise land-based machinery, equipment and prime mover downtime.
- Identify toxic and hazardous substances and environments and apply suitable and sustainable control measures.
- Dispose of equipment, components and substances in accordance with environmental regulations, industry standards and company policy.
- Keep up to date with advances in environment land-based working practices and the land-based engineering technologies and share best practice.
- How contextual factors (including operational techniques, application, crop, soil types and conditions, environments, weather and climatic conditions) impact on machine performance and faults.
- Repair complex electrical and electronic systems in accordance with job requirements.
Training schedule
- Land-based service engineering technician Level 3
- Apprentices without level 2 English and maths will need to achieve this level prior to taking the end point assessment
The qualification the apprentice will achieve at the end is an advanced Level 3 apprenticeship. Within this apprenticeship, you will be given the opportunity to build a solid foundation of technical knowledge and gain real-life experience. You’ll combine on-the-job training with practical lessons at college, where our specialist staff will teach you in our fully equipped workshops.
The apprenticeship will be delivered at Reaseheath College and will last 3 years. This will be 9 weeks in college per year, delivered in 3 x 3-week block release courses, at Reaseheath College, Nantwich.
Requirements
Desirable 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
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Team working
About this employer
Established in 2003 by a Bitelli trained engineer with over 30 years’ experience working with road construction equipment. His experience, reliability and motivation to provide an excellent, value for money service is at the core of the company. ATP understands that Suppliers can make all the difference to how smoothly your business is carried out. Our aim is to ensure we are a Supplier you can both trust and rely upon.
After this apprenticeship
- Permanent position within the engineering team, secure employment/established business, working on up to date/modern equipment of a global brand, on-going training and the opportunity to gain additonal qualifications
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
REASEHEATH COLLEGE
Ashley Platt
admin@atplant.co.uk
01925 251195
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000350145.
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Closes in 6 days (Friday 14 November 2025 at 11:59pm)
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