Motor Vehicle Apprentice

WOODSIDE GARAGE NEW MILLS LTD

HIGH PEAK (SK22 4BW)

Closes in 18 days (Tuesday 28 October 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 10 October 2025

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Summary

Woodside Garage are 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

£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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Training course
Motor vehicle service and maintenance technician - light vehicle (level 3)
Hours
Monday - Friday, shifts to be confirming.

40 hours a week

Start date

Monday 3 November 2025

Duration

3 years

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

Duties will include but will not be limited to:

  • Assisting with MOT work
  • General repairs
  • House keeping
  • Brushing up
  • Cleaning tools
  • 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

SALEM MILL
HYDE BANK ROAD
NEW MILLS
HIGH PEAK
SK22 4BW

Training

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

Training provider

MACCLESFIELD COLLEGE

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.

Training schedule

  • Motor vehicle service and maintenance technician - light vehicle
    Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard
  • This apprenticeship is 1 day release to Macclesfield College

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade 4/C+)
  • Maths (grade 4/C+)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Attention to detail
  • Customer care skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Team working

About this employer

At Woodside Garage New Mills, we believe that taking care of your vehicle shouldn’t be stressful—it should be simple, honest, and dependable. Since our establishment, we’ve dedicated ourselves to offering the very best in car care for the New Mills community and surrounding areas. Our philosophy is simple: treat every customer like family and every vehicle like our own. That’s why so many of our clients return to us year after year, recommending us to friends and family.

https://www.woodsidegaragenewmills.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

There may be a fulltime position available upon successfully completing this apprenticeship.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

MACCLESFIELD COLLEGE

Maxim Business Training

apprenticeshiprecruitment@macclesfield.ac.uk

01625410000

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000345812.

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Closes in 18 days (Tuesday 28 October 2025 at 11:59pm)

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