Apprentice Autocare Technician

A fantastic opportunity to join Halfords Group within one of the many Halfords Autocentres in the UK. Join an energetic skilled workforce of Vehicle Technicians. You will learn from the best and hopefully shine to be the future employees of Halfords Vehicle Technicians. You will receive great training, great support and a great salary.

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

Responsibilities

Within our Autocentres no two days are ever the same. You can expect to encounter almost any make or model of car for almost every piece of work you can think of; from servicing, inspections to the more complex repair work, engine rebuilds and diagnostics work.

The nature of the work ranges from:

• Replacing simple parts through to solving complex faults with the use of diagnostic methods and equipment
• The day-to-day tasks faced by a vehicle technician are constantly changing, driven by the introduction of ever more complex technologies and diagnostic techniques
• Follow recognised diagnostic procedures, logical diagnostic sequence and apply advanced diagnostic principles and problem-solving techniques to establish faults
• 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
• Interpret diagnostic information and use electrical wiring diagrams to determine system serviceability
• Obtain diagnostic and repair information
• Complete a range of services and inspect and prepare a vehicle to the required quality standard for handover to the customer

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

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, 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.