Apprentice Vehicle Technician
Pine Lodge Cars
Whitchurch (SY13 2JA)
Closes in 12 days (Thursday 7 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 24 July 2025
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Summary
Accelerate your career at this well-established Whitchurch car sales, servicing and sales business, where you will be given the opportunity to learn and develop vehicle repair skills for your career as a mechanic.
- Wage
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£18,500 a year
- Training course
- Autocare technician (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday (No weekends) 9 am to 5.30 pm.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 26 August 2025
- Duration
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2 years 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
The Pine Lodge Cars team are proud of the high esteem in which its customers regard the business and it works hard to look after its professional reputation.
You would join the team in the servicing and repairs garage, looking after and preparing the fleet of cars ready for sale and also servicing and repairing customer cars. There’s also an MOT inspection service.
Duties and responsibilities, under supervision, include;
- Carrying out vehicle safety inspections and routine maintenance to meet legal requirements
- Fixing faults and repairs, fitting parts
- Assist with MOTs
- Work on the fundamental vehicle systems, including steering & suspension, braking systems, battery & charging systems, and exhaust systems
- Help to keep the garage clean and tidy
- Thinking about health and safety and playing your part to keep yourself and the rest of the team safe
- General admin to support the garage team
- Learning about legislation in relation to roadworthy vehicles
Where you'll work
Pine Lodge
Higher Heath
Whitchurch
SY13 2JA
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
CHESHIRE COLLEGE SOUTH AND WEST
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.
Training schedule
The candidate will follow a Level 2 Apprenticeship programme and study towards a full Level 2 Standard as an Autocare Technician. This training will be structured and delivered by Cheshire College – South & West. If the candidate does not hold GCSE grades A*-D (9-3) or equivalent, they will be required to complete a Level 1 Functional Skill in the relevant subject. Further training will be supported in the workplace by a mentor.
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade C/4)
- Maths (grade C/4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
- Reliable
- Honest
About this employer
Pine Lodge Cars, based in Whitchurch, is on a site which has been home to car businesses since the 1940s. Its latest chapter has been under the leadership of Lee Ferguson who has guided his reputable car sales, servicing and repair garage from strength to strength. Under his direction, he has expanded the building to accommodate his customers more comfortably, built a double valet bay and garage and taken on more land to make room for 150 more cars. The impressive rate of expansion and growth of reputation has exceeded all expectations with record numbers of sales year on year.
After this apprenticeship
A full-time position at Pine Lodge Cars on successful completion of apprenticeship.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
CHESHIRE COLLEGE SOUTH AND WEST
apprenticeships@ccsw.ac.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000333538.
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Closes in 12 days (Thursday 7 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
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