DAF Vehicle Parts Advisor Apprentice - Waltham Cross
HARRIS COMMERCIAL (LEA VALLEY) LIMITED
Waltham Cross (EN8 7PG)
Closes in 23 days (Sunday 31 May 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 7 May 2026
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Summary
An exciting opportunity for an apprentice to work alongside fully qualified parts advisors to be fully trained in sourcing and supplying parts for light vehicles. You will be handling, storing and receiving stock, payments, procedures, identifying, sourcing and ordering parts.
- Wage
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£16,640 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Customer service specialist (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm. Occasional Saturdays to be confirmed.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 June 2026
- Duration
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1 year 3 months
- Positions available
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2
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
- Safe storage of parts
- Handling, storing and receiving stock, payments, procedures, identifying, sourcing and ordering parts
- Monitoring and solving customer problems/enquiries and processing customer’s orders
- The parts advisor apprentice will be working with both customers and workshop staff, over the phone and face to face, using computerised stock management systems and parts identification programme - ECAT
- A parts advisor apprentice will support the dealership, improve sales and provide excellent customer service
Where you'll work
8, New Ford Road
Waltham Cross
EN8 7PG
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
SKILLNET LIMITED
Training course
Customer service specialist (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Business focused service delivery: Demonstrate a continuous improvement and future focussed approach to customer service delivery including decision making and providing recommendations or advice
- Business focused service delivery: Resolve complex issues by being able to choose from and successfully apply a wide range of approaches
- Business focused service delivery: Find solutions that meet your organisations needs as well as the customer requirements
- Providing a positive customer experience: Through advanced questioning, listening and summarising negotiate mutually beneficial outcomes
- Providing a positive customer experience: Manage challenging and complicated situations within your level of authority and make recommendations to enable and deliver change to service or strategy
- Providing a positive customer experience: Use clear explanations, provide options and solutions to influence and help customers make choices and agree next steps
- Providing a positive customer experience: Explore and interpret the customer experience to inform and influence achieving a positive result for customer satisfaction
- Providing a positive customer experience: Demonstrate a cost conscious mind-set when meeting customer and the business needs
- Providing a positive customer experience: Identifying where highs and lows of the customer journey produce a range of emotions in the customer
- Providing a positive customer experience: Use written and verbal communication to simplify and provide complex information in a way that supports positive customer outcome in the relevant format
- Working with customers/customer insights: Proactively gather customer feedback, through a variety of methods. Critically analyse, and evaluate the meaning, implication and facts and act upon it
- Working with customers/customer insights: Analyse your customer types, to identify or anticipate their potential needs and expectations when providing your service
- Customer Service performance: Maintain a positive relationship even when you are unable to deliver the customer’s expected outcome
- Customer Service performance: When managing referrals or escalations take into account historical interactions and challenges to determine next steps
- Service Improvement: Analyse the end to end service experience, seeking input from others where required, supporting development of solutions
- Service Improvement: Make recommendations based on your findings to enable improvement
- Service Improvement: Make recommendations and implement where possible, changes in line with new and relevant legislation, regulations and industry best practice
Training schedule
Customer Service Specialist Level 3 Apprenticeship standard:
Apprentices will be working and will be trained within the dealership, and an advisor will visit at least every 4 weeks as part of a close support network to ensure that apprentices are both enjoying and succeeding in their course
An apprentice’s training includes:
- Visiting a bespoke college academy
- VRQ in the parts industry
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
About this employer
Harris DAF is one of the longest established DAF Trucks dealership groups in the UK.
We operate 3 DAF dealerships, our sales location based in West Thurrock, Essex supported by two after-sales operations in Waltham Cross, Herts and Witham, Essex.
Whether you require a new or used DAF truck, repair and maintenance, DAF or other truck and trailer parts, we offer a range of cost-effective transport and finance solutions. Each dealership has a comprehensive range of DAF and TRP parts stock supported by emergency overnight availability from DAF.
The group stockholding equals £2.5m and we offer a daily delivery service from all locations. We employ over 50 factory trained technicians with in-depth DAF product knowledge and our larger workshops are open 24 hours to permit maintenance work to be performed during off-peak hours
After this apprenticeship
- A full-time career within the automotive industry, with many opportunities to progress to positions of authority
- The opportunities are endless. By having a highly regarded set of skills, apprentices can go on to develop their career within specific interests they may have, such as progressing through the dealership
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SKILLNET LIMITED
Jose Faria
jose.faria@skillnet.org.uk
01923216165
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000030389.
Apply now
Closes in 23 days (Sunday 31 May 2026 at 11:59pm)