Light Vehicle Technician Apprentice
HORSEPOWER MOTOR CENTRE LTD
TONBRIDGE (TN9 1RH)
Closes on Thursday 31 July 2025
Posted on 16 May 2025
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Summary
Kickstart your career in the motor trade! Join our team as a Light Vehicle Technician Apprentice – learn how to service and repair cars, gain hands-on experience, and work towards a recognised qualification. Ideal for someone passionate about cars and eager to learn. Apply now and start your journey in the automotive industry!
- 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 9am to 5pm
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 15 September 2025
- Duration
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3 years
- 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
We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to join our team as a Light Vehicle Technician Apprentice. This is a hands-on role where you will learn how to service, maintain, and repair cars and light commercial vehicles. Working alongside experienced technicians, you will develop practical skills and technical knowledge through both on-the-job training and formal study.
Key Responsibilities:
- Assisting with vehicle servicing and routine maintenance
- Diagnosing faults and carrying out repairs under supervision
- Using workshop tools and diagnostic equipment
- Maintaining a clean and safe working environment
- Attending college or training provider sessions as required
This is a fantastic opportunity to start your career in the motor industry with real development potential.
Where you'll work
SOVEREIGN WAY
TONBRIDGE
TN9 1RH
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
NORTH KENT 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
You will be attending one day per week at North Kent College Gravesend
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
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
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Number skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Patience
- Physical fitness
- Proficient handwriting skills
Other requirements
Must have a Driving Licence or working towards one
About this company
Since 2002, Horsepower Motor Centre has helped thousands of customers find their perfect car. We are proud to serve people in the community and customers further afield in Approved Used car sales and a comprehensive aftercare centre. It is our mission and our privilege to offer great prices, sound advice, and a personable experience at all times to everyone who enters our site. Horsepower’s all-inclusive service ensures that you are getting the best price on the model that you are purchasing or selling, and that the car you drive is maintained to its best possible standard. All of our models are Approved Used, and our trained technicians at our aftercare centre only use genuine parts – so you can rest assured that you are getting the best from us. We’re easy to find – just head to Sovereign Way in Tonbridge, Kent – only five minutes’ walking distance from Tonbridge Train Station and Tonbridge High Street. Call us now or use the Live Chat to speak to one our experts and book a service or a test drive.
After this apprenticeship
Having successfully completed the Light Vehicle Apprenticeship. There could potentially be a full time permanent position at the company.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
NORTH KENT COLLEGE
Lucy Penniall
lucypenniall@northkent.ac.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000321126.
Apply now
Closes on Thursday 31 July 2025
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