Autocare Technician Apprentice

Summary

Sneaton Lane Body Repairs are looking for an Apprentice Autocare Technician to join their team and learn their trade on the job whilst completing an apprentice qualification. They are looking for a hardworking and motivated individual who has a passion for vehicles and how they work. If this is you, please apply!

Wage

£11,778 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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Training course

Autocare technician (level 2)

Hours

Monday - Friday Working hours TBC

30 hours a week

Start date

Monday 7 July 2025

Duration

2 years 6 months

Positions available

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

Contribute to maintaining a healthy and safe workplace, including the maintenance of key equipment and carrying out general housekeeping.
Carry out stock procedures including dealing with routine stock deliveries, placing stock into storage, carrying out stock rotation duties, and ordering parts for customers following company procedures.
Perform vehicle safety inspections and routine maintenance in line with manufacturers' specifications or approved schedules, company procedures, and complete approved documentation.
Make recommendations to customers based on the results of inspections, ensuring that sales recommendations are accurate, fully costed, ethical, and in the best interests of the customer at all times, using transparent language that avoids jargon.
Replace components on a specific range of vehicle systems including steering & suspension, braking systems, battery & charging systems, exhaust systems, and air-conditioning systems.
Perform 4-wheel geometry operations including adjustments on a range of vehicles with different suspension and steering systems.
Use a range of specialist tools & equipment, mechanical & electrical measuring tools, and diagnostic equipment to support fault identification and repair.
Identify and procure correct parts to meet specific customer requirements.
Access vehicle technical data to inform inspections and make judgments on wear and serviceability.
Deal with and resolve low-level customer complaints.
Communicate effectively with customers, suppliers, and colleagues.
Use specific company IT systems within the workplace, including point-of-sale systems and portable devices.
Help with body repairs and painting of vehicles

Where you'll work

SNEATON LANE GARAGE
RUSWARP
WHITBY
N YORKSHIRE
YO22 5HL

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

College or training organisation

MIDDLESBROUGH COLLEGE

Your training course

Autocare technician (level 2)

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What you'll learn

Course contents

Comply with health and safety procedures in the workplace in compliance with regulations, standards, and guidance.
Prepare the vehicle and working area before the work activity. For example, remove or mitigate slip and trip hazards.
Maintain and restore the work area during and on completion of the activity.
Store, maintain, including calibration checks, and return tools and equipment to storage.
Access vehicle technical data to inform inspections and make judgements on wear and serviceability.
Comply with environmental and sustainability procedures, regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling, and disposal.
Apply vehicle safety inspection and routine maintenance procedures using vehicle specific data on car, car derived van or light goods vehicle.
Select and use tools and equipment, mechanical and electrical measuring tools, and diagnostic equipment.
Remove and replace vehicle tyre and balance wheel assemblies on car, car derived van or light goods vehicle. For example, ultra-low profile, directional, asymmetric, run-flat tyres.
Remove, repair and replace vehicle tyre and balance wheel assemblies on car, car derived van or light goods vehicle. For example, ultra-low profile, directional, asymmetric, run-flat tyres.
Inspect, remove, and replace of parts or components in cars, car derived vans, or light goods vehicles for the following: steering systems and suspension systems, braking systems, emission systems, air conditioning systems, battery and charging systems, fluid and filtration systems.
Apply state-of-health condition monitoring tests to high voltage batteries and chargers for electrified cars, car derived vans, or light goods vehicles.
Apply four-wheel geometry checks and adjustments to cars, car derived vans, and light goods vehicles.
Apply safe working practices and procedures to isolate electrified vehicles for maintenance.
Record vehicle service maintenance, parts replacement, or repair.
Apply customer service principles and organisational customer care practices. For example, identifying customer and vehicle needs, resolve low level customer complaints, make recommendations to customers based on results of inspection, maintenance, or repair of vehicles, customer payment transactions and organisational sales processes.
Provide quotation of cost and order automotive parts, products, and consumables applicable to the vehicle.
Apply procedures for stock and parts storage: ordering, checking and stock rotation.
Apply organisational sales processes. For example, show and tell, features and benefits, consultative selling, mini closing and closing.
Apply team working principles.
Comply with equity, diversity, and inclusion guidance.
Communicate with others verbally, for example customers, suppliers, and colleagues.
Communicate in writing, for example with internal and external customers, colleagues, and managers.
Use information and digital technology systems. Comply with GDPR and cyber security.
Complete and record learning and development activities.
Apply procedures to check and replace fluids, and filtration parts.
Comply with health and safety procedures in the workplace in compliance with regulations, standards, and guidance.
Prepare the vehicle and working area before the work activity. For example, remove or mitigate slip and trip hazards.
Maintain and restore the work area during and on completion of the activity.
Store, maintain, including calibration checks, and return tools and equipment to storage.
Access vehicle technical data to inform inspections and make judgements on wear and serviceability.
Comply with environmental and sustainability procedures, regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling, and disposal.
Apply vehicle safety inspection and routine maintenance procedures using vehicle specific data on car, car derived van or light goods vehicle.
Select and use tools and equipment, mechanical and electrical measuring tools, and diagnostic equipment.
Remove and replace vehicle tyre and balance wheel assemblies on car, car derived van or light goods vehicle. For example, ultra-low profile, directional, asymmetric, run-flat tyres.
Remove, repair and replace vehicle tyre and balance wheel assemblies on car, car derived van or light goods vehicle. For example, ultra-low profile, directional, asymmetric, run-flat tyres.
Inspect, remove, and replace of parts or components in cars, car derived vans, or light goods vehicles for the following: steering systems and suspension systems, braking systems, emission systems, air conditioning systems, battery and charging systems, fluid and filtration systems.
Apply state-of-health condition monitoring tests to high voltage batteries and chargers for electrified cars, car derived vans, or light goods vehicles.
Apply four-wheel geometry checks and adjustments to cars, car derived vans, and light goods vehicles.
Apply safe working practices and procedures to isolate electrified vehicles for maintenance.
Record vehicle service maintenance, parts replacement, or repair.
Apply customer service principles and organisational customer care practices. For example, identifying customer and vehicle needs, resolve low level customer complaints, make recommendations to customers based on results of inspection, maintenance, or repair of vehicles, customer payment transactions and organisational sales processes.
Provide quotation of cost and order automotive parts, products, and consumables applicable to the vehicle.
Apply procedures for stock and parts storage: ordering, checking and stock rotation.
Apply organisational sales processes. For example, show and tell, features and benefits, consultative selling, mini closing and closing.
Apply team working principles.
Comply with equity, diversity, and inclusion guidance.
Communicate with others verbally, for example customers, suppliers, and colleagues.
Communicate in writing, for example with internal and external customers, colleagues, and managers.
Use information and digital technology systems. Comply with GDPR and cyber security.
Complete and record learning and development activities.
Apply procedures to check and replace fluids, and filtration parts.

Your training plan

Level 2 Autocare Assistant, including Functional Skills in English and maths if required.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

Maths & English (grade 3 or above)

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
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Team working

About this company

Our professional team will ensure that our workshop provides immediate service at competitive prices. The quality provided by our qualified staff all of which are ATA and IMI trained. Means that we are the recommended repairers for many leading insurers. We regularly work on all kinds of vehicles, from Motorcycles to Racing Cars to Combine Harvesters .

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After this apprenticeship

Potential permanent position available upon successful completion of the apprenticeship program.

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