The Vella Group Accident Repair Technician Apprentice

The Vella Group are currently recruiting Accident Repair Technician Apprentices to join their team at Southport, Preston, and Penrith. This is an excellent opportunity to earn while you learn within the Automotive Industry.

About the Role

As an Accident Repair Technician, you will repair all elements of a vehicle after it has been involved in a collision. These range from small damage through to heavily impacted types of damage requiring complex and detailed repair or replacement of major structural elements of the vehicle.

Typically, the Accident Repair Technician works in a modern, highly technical workshop-type environment, working on a broad range of vehicles, from cars and car-derived vans to light commercial vehicles.

Uniquely, an Accident Repair Technician will work on and obtain a level of competence in all craft aspects of vehicle accident repair, including Mechanical, Electrical & Trim (MET); Panel Repair & Replacement; Preparation and Paint.

The Accident Repair Technician from day one embraces the need to put complete customer satisfaction, as well as commercial awareness, at the centre of everything they do. The ability to excel whilst working within a team is a key output for any Accident Repair Technician.

Training

Training Course Contents:

• Identify and apply techniques to document hazards and risks in the workplace.
• Apply control measures.
• Apply health and safety procedures and safe systems of work in compliance with regulations and standards.
• Apply techniques to plan work activities.
• Identify and apply techniques to organise and use resources with consideration for cost, quality, safety, security, and environmental impact.
• Apply sustainability principles.
• Read and interpret information.
• Apply continuous improvement techniques.
• Apply techniques to record or enter information.
• Communicate with others verbally.
• Apply techniques to test the function of repaired, fitted, and associated components.
• Applies stock control techniques to check, replenish, and complete returns.
• Identify and apply techniques to resolve problems encountered during the accident repair process.
• Apply techniques to report issues and problems which cannot be resolved.
• Apply techniques to operate electrical and electronic control systems.
• Use diagnostic tools for fault finding.
• Apply techniques to remove damaged and associated mechanical components from a vehicle.
• Apply techniques to re-assemble and replace existing mechanical components to a vehicle.
• Apply techniques to remove and refit trim components.
• Apply techniques to fit electrical components and systems.
• Diagnose and apply techniques to rectify vehicle electrical faults.
• Apply techniques to diagnose, remove, replace, and recalibrate Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) systems and components.
• Apply techniques to remove, repair, and replace non-structural body panels.
• Apply techniques to repair and refurbish trim components.
• Apply techniques to remove, repair, and replace structural body panels excluding chassis legs and related components.
• Apply techniques to identify and rectify vehicle body misalignment.
• Apply body filler and foundation materials.
• Apply techniques to prepare and refinish metal, plastic, and pre-painted surfaces.
• Apply paint, primer, and base coats.
• Apply topcoats and clear coats. Complete final refinishing operations.
• Identify and apply techniques to rectify paint and preparation defects including smart repair technologies, and Paintless Dent Removal (PDR).
• Apply equity, diversity, and inclusion principles.
• Apply mechanical and non-mechanical joining techniques.
• Apply techniques to record planned and unplanned learning and development activities.
• Communicate in writing.
• Identify and apply techniques to rectify wheel misalignment (two-wheel and four-wheel).