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Newcastle Upon Tyne
£16.8k/yr
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Arnold Clark Apprentice

As an Arnold Clark Apprentice, you’ll get paid while you get qualified! And at the end of your training, you’ll have an Autocare Level 2 qualification and hands-on experience in one of our Service departments. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who’s willing to learn and wants to advance their career.

Wage

£16,776 a year

Training Course

Autocare technician (level 2)

Hours

Monday - Friday, shifts to be confirmed. 39 hours a week

Start Date

Monday 31 August 2026

Duration

2 years

Positions Available

1

What You'll Do at Work

  • Working with wheels and tyres
  • Basic servicing, including car health checks
  • Working with steering and suspension
  • Carrying out MOT preparation
  • Putting theory into practice in the workplace
  • Learning about electrical fault diagnostics
  • Filming videos of work done to build trust with customers
  • Overhauling major components

Where You'll Work

Arnold Clark Bodyshop Scotswood Road
1 Gardener Street
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE4 7AS

Training

Training Provider

GTG TRAINING LIMITED

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, 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.

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Training Schedule

  • At the end of your training, you’ll have an Autocare Level 2 qualification and hands-on experience in our Service departments
  • As an Arnold Clark apprentice, you’ll attend one of our dedicated training centres, GTG, for two weeks’ initial training, and receive classroom training throughout your apprenticeship
  • You’ll also regularly be assessed in the workplace to make sure you’re on track for success

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Essential Qualifications

  • GCSE in:
    • English (grade 4 to 9)
    • Maths (grade 4 to 9)
    • Science or another technical subject (grade 4 to 9)

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
  • Analytical skills
  • Team working
  • Initiative
  • Reliable

About Arnold Clark

Arnold Clark is the UK's leading independently owned car retailer, with over 200 dealerships across the UK. Established in Glasgow in 1954, we represent a wide range of vehicle manufacturers and employ thousands of colleagues nationwide. We are committed to developing future talent through our award-winning apprenticeship programmes, providing industry-leading training, ongoing support and clear career progression opportunities.

Company Benefits

All the benefits available to existing Arnold Clark employees:

  • 33 days' annual leave
  • Flexible leave
  • Generous employee discounts
  • Private healthcare
  • Workplace pension

Disability Confident

A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.

You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.

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Requirements

  • You’ll need to have loads of enthusiasm for the work and be able to take instructions and advice from your mentor in a workplace environment
  • At the end of the qualification, there are also some fantastic career opportunities on offer for successful participants

Contact

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

ARNOLD CLARK AUTOMOBILES LIMITED
Levi Glaister
levi.glaister@arnoldclark.com
0141 4064868

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000040977.

Closes in 6 days (Tuesday 14 July 2026)

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Skills

Health and safety
Communication
Team working
Customer service
Mechanical skills
Problem solving
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Analytical skills
Initiative
Reliability

Location

Scotswood Rd, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 7AS, UK

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