Motor Vehicle Apprentice
MJL Contractors Ltd
Redruth (TR16 5FG)
Closes in 31 days (Sunday 16 August 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 16 July 2026
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Summary
MJL Group Ltd are offering a fantastic opportunity to join their team as a Motor Vehicle apprentice. This is a great opportunity to learn new skills and develop your knowledge.
- 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
- Motor vehicle service and maintenance technician - light vehicle (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday 8am to 4pm. Hours may occasionally vary based on the discretion of individual site foremen and discussions held.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 12 October 2026
- Duration
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1 year
- 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
Daily duties will include:
- Helping maintain vehicles, including general servicing
- Checks and routine maintenance on vehicles
- Examining faults on our fleet of vans, cars and trucks
- Working closely with our existing workshop team on a number of yard-required duties
- Ensure clean and well maintained workshop environments
- Diagnostics on cars and vehicles to source faults and issue repairs
Where you'll work
M J L House
Cornwall Business Park West, Scorrier
Redruth
TR16 5FG
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
CORNWALL COLLEGE
Training course
Motor vehicle service and maintenance technician - light vehicle (level 3)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
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
You will be working towards a Level 3 Motor Vehicle Service and Maintenance Technician (Light) apprenticeship standard.
You will be required to attend Cornwall College Camborne on a weekly basis as part of the apprenticeship training.
You will receive support from an assessor and an apprenticeship advisor.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
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
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
- Patience
Other requirements
Our workshop is in Cornwall Business Park (West), parking is available here but public transport is not easily accessible.
About this employer
MJL Group Ltd consists of three major branches: MJL Plant Hire (which focuses on machines like excavators and dumper trucks), MJL Homes (which focuses on building luxury homes in Cornwall), and MJL Contractors Ltd (The largest part of our industry, focuses on groundworks and civil infrastructure. Founded in 2001, the company has grown extremely in the past ten years to cover the entire southwest from Dorset to Cornwall and everywhere in between. With over 500+ employees, two offices in Scorrier and in Exeter, it has become one of the largest contractors in the region. We have a huge focus on internal growth, and training our own team to grow within the company. We are different from our competitors in our investment to employees and equipment. Recently, we have made a huge push to digitalise our company and update it to the modern world and modern construction. We are constantly investing in new H&S techniques making our sites extremely safe, and always hiring and buying state-of-the-art equipment for our teams to use. A job with MJL is a way to safeguard your career path for the future.
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
Upon successful completion of the apprenticeship there will be an opportunity to talk about the options for full-time employment as a Workshop / Automotive Mechanic.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
CORNWALL COLLEGE
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000043241.
Apply now
Closes in 31 days (Sunday 16 August 2026 at 11:59pm)