Motor Vehicle Apprentice
Medlicott Motors
ENGLAND (CW12 1NJ)
Closes in 20 days (Tuesday 3 June 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 13 May 2025
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Summary
Medlicott Motors is a well-established garage in the Congleton-Macclesfield area and is looking for a dedicated motor vehicle apprentice technician to work towards a Level 3 Motor Vehicle and Maintenance Technician Standard. You will be involved with general servicing and repairs, along with many other duties.
- 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
- Motor vehicle service and maintenance technician - light vehicle (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, 08.30 - 17.00.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 9 June 2025
- 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 apprenticeship will focus on three key areas:
- Servicing vehicles - working to manufacturers guidelines to ensure the vehicle is running at optimum performance.
- Maintenance - replacing parts and components before they fail.
- Repair - repairing problems that cause vehicle failure.
- You will use diagnostic, mechanical and electrical measuring equipment to investigate faults and identify their underlying causes.
- You will inspect and prepare customers vehicles ready for mechanical work.
- Remove, repair components to the correct specification.
- Contribute to the safe working environment by working within health and safety processes.
- Ensure that admin and customer service duties are completed including updating job cards and providing quotations and estimates.
- You will shadow qualified technicians to learn first hand how to service, maintain and repair vehicles, as you progress and your confidence and experience grows you will start completing tasks on your own.
Where you'll work
97 LOWER HEATH
CONGLETON
ENGLAND
CW12 1NJ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
MACCLESFIELD COLLEGE
Your training course
Motor vehicle service and maintenance technician - light vehicle (level 3)
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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.
Your training plan
Level 3 Motor Vehicle Service and Maintenance Technician - Light Vehicle Apprenticeship qualification.
- This programme is delivered via a day release delivery model which means that one day per week, your attendance is required at Macclesfield College. This attendance is required during term time only.
- You will work with expert assessors to develop new knowledge, skills and behaviours within the profession.
- You will experience a blended learning model.
- You will gather learning evidence, journals and off-the-job records using your e-portfolio.
- At the end of the planned learning period, it will be agreed that you are ready to enter 'Gateway' and for your End Point Assessment to be arranged.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE or equivalent in:
- English (grade 4/C+)
- Maths (grade 4/C+)
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
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Physical fitness
About this company
Looking for an Independent Auto Electrician or Vehicle Diagnostics Specialists in Congleton? With nearly two decades of mechanical and auto electrical experience, we repair and service all car makes and models. Specialising primarily in auto-electrical diagnostics, we'll get to the root of the problem quickly and ensure it's fixed the first time, correctly, saving our customers valuable time and money.
After this apprenticeship
- After completion of your apprenticeship you will potentially have the opportunity to progress onto full time positions within the business.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
Medlicott Motors
James Medlicott
info@medlicottmotors.co.uk
01260642194
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000319147.
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Closes in 20 days (Tuesday 3 June 2025 at 11:59pm)
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