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Tipton Auto Centre Light Vehicle Service and Maintenance Technician
Tipton Auto Centre is looking for someone to join their great motor vehicle team. A Light Vehicle Service and Maintenance Technician services, diagnoses, and repairs cars and vans up to 3.5 tonnes. Handling everything from routine oil changes to complex electrical faults using advanced diagnostic equipment.
What you'll do at work
- Routine Servicing: Carrying out scheduled manufacturer maintenance, multi-point inspections, and fluid replacements
- Diagnostics: Using specialised computer-based diagnostic tools to trace and solve complex mechanical, hydraulic, and electrical faults
- Repairs & Replacements: Fixing or replacing worn components like brakes, clutches, gearboxes, and steering/suspension parts
- Advanced Tech: Working with modern vehicle systems, including zero-emission vehicles (EV/Hybrids), Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), and emission control
- Tyre replacements
- Housing Keeping
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
STAFF SELECT LTD
Training course
Motor vehicle service and maintenance technician - light vehicle (level 3)
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.
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Training schedule
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Requirements
Essential qualifications
- GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
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Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Customer care skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Team working
- Patience
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
- Must be reliable and have good time keeping
- 1 week trial (paid at national minimum wage) will be required prior to the apprenticeship offer
- Driving Licence required eventually will be test driving vehicles
About this employer
Family-owned and operated independent garage built on trust and value for money with an honest approach.
Tipton MOT and Tyre Centre Ltd, maintain most makes of vehicles including new vehicles under warranty from small cars to large vans and diagnose electronic/engine management faults with the latest diagnostic equipment. Use genuine parts where required to ensure manufacturer’s warranty is maintained.
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay. After completing this apprenticeship, learners can progress to roles such as Master Technician, Workshop Supervisor, or Fleet Maintenance Manager, or continue their training through higher-level automotive or engineering qualifications.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
STAFF SELECT LTD
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000038955.
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