Land Based Service Engineering Apprentice
Kingsbridge Hire & Garden Machinery
Totnes (TQ9 7FA)
Closes in 12 days (Sunday 29 June 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 12 February 2025
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Summary
Kingsbridge Hire & Garden Machinery are offering an exciting opportunity to join their dynamic team as a Land Based Service Engineer Apprentice! Gain the knowledge, skills and behaviours to kickstart your career as a Land Based Engineer.
- Wage
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£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Land-based service engineer (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday 8am to 5pm
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 15 September 2025
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- 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 but are not limited to:
- Working within our fully equipped workshop alongside the workshop manager and other members of staff
- Assessing & diagnosing faults on a range of petrol, diesel and battery machines
- Carrying out repairs & servicing to manufactures guidelines
- Communicating directly with manufactures technical departments to help diagnose issues with machines
- Assisting in the installation, repairs and servicing of robotic mowers
- Assisting with off-site breakdown and repairs
- Ordering and checking in parts to the workshop department
- Answering phone calls and e-mails when required
Where you'll work
Unit 4-7, Torr Trade Park
East Allington
Totnes
TQ9 7FA
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
CORNWALL COLLEGE
Your training course
Land-based service engineer (level 2)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Prepare and reinstate the work area for land-based engineering activities.
- Clean land-based machinery and equipment.
- Select and use PPE, tools and equipment required to undertake land-based engineering activities.
- Prepare land-based prime-movers, machinery and equipment for service, maintenance and repair activities.
- Prepare parts, components and sub-assemblies prior to reassembly, including inspecting, cleaning, refurbishing, sharpening, resealing, straightening, and balancing.
- Refit and re-assemble parts, components and sub-assemblies, ensuring their compatibility and relationship including timing and alignment.
- Select the appropriate lifting, supporting and securing equipment.
- Apply thermal bonding and separation methods to join, fabricate and repair materials and components.
- Complete organisational documentation and reports.
- Carry out work in compliance with legislative and organisational requirements.
- Lift, support and secure loads, land-based machinery, equipment and assemblies.
- Setup land-based prime movers, machinery and equipment to meet customer requirements.
- Connect, attach and fit land-based machinery equipment to prime movers.
- Service and maintain land-based prime-movers, machinery and equipment to manufacturer’s recommendations.
- Adopt safe working practices that ensure personal safety and the safety of others and the environment.
- Conduct static and basic operational inspections and check compliance with legislative safety requirements and system tests to establish actions to be taken.
- Interrogate control systems to view error codes, reset indicators and verify software updates.
- Carry out checks and tests to ensure prime-movers, machinery and equipment meet manufacturers specifications before and after repair.
- Identify and follow technical documentation and perform hydraulic or electrical repair activities on land-based machinery.
- Perform transmission or engine repair activities on land-based machinery.
- Record and interpret technical information relating to land-based service, maintenance and repair operations.
- Apply the principles of customer care when dealing with internal and external customers relevant to own role.
- Maintain service and warranty records, record data and report findings to stakeholders.
- Carry out pre delivery inspections and conduct assembly as required on land-based equipment and prime movers.
- Check settings and make adjustments on land-based equipment to meet customer requirements.
- Carry out land-based machinery inspections.
- Prepare and reinstate the work area for land-based engineering activities.
- Clean land-based machinery and equipment.
- Select and use PPE, tools and equipment required to undertake land-based engineering activities.
- Prepare land-based prime-movers, machinery and equipment for service, maintenance and repair activities.
- Prepare parts, components and sub-assemblies prior to reassembly, including inspecting, cleaning, refurbishing, sharpening, resealing, straightening, and balancing.
- Refit and re-assemble parts, components and sub-assemblies, ensuring their compatibility and relationship including timing and alignment.
- Select the appropriate lifting, supporting and securing equipment.
- Apply thermal bonding and separation methods to join, fabricate and repair materials and components.
- Complete organisational documentation and reports.
- Carry out work in compliance with legislative and organisational requirements.
- Lift, support and secure loads, land-based machinery, equipment and assemblies.
- Setup land-based prime movers, machinery and equipment to meet customer requirements.
- Connect, attach and fit land-based machinery equipment to prime movers.
- Service and maintain land-based prime-movers, machinery and equipment to manufacturer’s recommendations.
- Adopt safe working practices that ensure personal safety and the safety of others and the environment.
- Conduct static and basic operational inspections and check compliance with legislative safety requirements and system tests to establish actions to be taken.
- Interrogate control systems to view error codes, reset indicators and verify software updates.
- Carry out checks and tests to ensure prime-movers, machinery and equipment meet manufacturers specifications before and after repair.
- Identify and follow technical documentation and perform hydraulic or electrical repair activities on land-based machinery.
- Perform transmission or engine repair activities on land-based machinery.
- Record and interpret technical information relating to land-based service, maintenance and repair operations.
- Apply the principles of customer care when dealing with internal and external customers relevant to own role.
- Maintain service and warranty records, record data and report findings to stakeholders.
- Carry out pre delivery inspections and conduct assembly as required on land-based equipment and prime movers.
- Check settings and make adjustments on land-based equipment to meet customer requirements.
- Carry out land-based machinery inspections.
Your training plan
- You will be working towards a Level 2 Land Based Service Engineer Apprenticeship Standard
- You will receive on and off-the-job training and support from an assessor and an Apprenticeship advisor
- You will be required to attend Bicton College for block weeks as part of the apprenticeship training
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade D/3)
- Maths (grade D/3)
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Patience
Other requirements
Rural Location with on-site car parking. There are limited transport links to our depot.
About this company
We sell garden machinery from the leading manufactures such as Stihl, Husqvarna & Stiga. We also hire plant equipment and tools from our main depot to contractors and DIYers in the surrounding area. We have our own onsite workshop servicing and repairing garden machinery, from chainsaws to ride on garden tractors, along with repairs to hire equipment. Alongside this we sell, install, service and repair auto mowers. This involves visiting customers gardens, assessing the area for suitability then working with the customer to find the right machine. Following this we will take the customer through the app to operate the robot and carry out follow up visits to check the machine is working for the customer. We pride ourselves on being a long-standing local business with friendly, knowledgeable staff to help and advise our customers. We are a well know business in the area and have a large customer base who return to us over and over because of the level of service we provide. We are the only authorised dealer in the area who stock the best brands, such as Stihl & Husqvarna.
After this apprenticeship
On successful completion of the Level 2 Land Based Service Engineer apprenticeship, apprentices may wish to progress to Level 3 Land Based Service Engineer apprenticeship.
There may also be opportunity to progress with the company.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
CORNWALL COLLEGE
Ceri
01209616103
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000303389.
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Closes in 12 days (Sunday 29 June 2025 at 11:59pm)
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