Land-based Service Engineer Apprenticeship

This apprenticeship offers the opportunity to earn while you learn, developing the skills and knowledge required to inspect, maintain, service, and repair a wide range of land-based machinery and equipment used within agriculture, horticulture, groundcare, and other land-based industries.

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

What you'll do at work

• Carry out routine servicing and preventative maintenance on land-based machinery and equipment.
• Assist with fault finding using mechanical, electrical, and hydraulic diagnostic techniques.
• Repair and replace components following manufacturer specifications.
• Prepare machinery for inspection, delivery, and customer use.
• Conduct pre-delivery inspections and routine safety checks.
• Use hand tools, specialist equipment, and workshop machinery safely and correctly.
• Read and interpret technical manuals, diagrams, and workshop instructions.
• Maintain accurate service records and complete job documentation.
• Keep the workshop clean, tidy, and organised.
• Support experienced engineers during repairs and customer call-outs where required.
• Follow health, safety, and environmental procedures at all times.
• Develop excellent customer service skills when communicating with customers and colleagues.

Where you'll work

CROFT HOUSE
COTHERSTONE
BARNARD CASTLE
DL12 9PG

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

Training provider

EAST DURHAM COLLEGE

Training course

Land-based service engineer (level 2)

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What you'll learn

Course contents

• Prepare and reinstate the work area for land-based engineering activities.
• Clean land-based machinery and equipment.
• Select and use PPE, tools, and equipment required to undertake land-based engineering activities.
• Prepare land-based prime-movers, machinery, and equipment for service, maintenance, and repair activities.
• Prepare parts, components, and sub-assemblies prior to reassembly, including inspecting, cleaning, refurbishing, sharpening, resealing, straightening, and balancing.
• Refit and re-assemble parts, components, and sub-assemblies, ensuring their compatibility and relationship including timing and alignment.
• Select the appropriate lifting, supporting, and securing equipment.
• Apply thermal bonding and separation methods to join, fabricate, and repair materials and components.
• Complete organisational documentation and reports.
• Carry out work in compliance with legislative and organisational requirements.
• Lift, support, and secure loads, land-based machinery, equipment, and assemblies.
• Setup land-based prime movers, machinery, and equipment to meet customer requirements.
• Connect, attach, and fit land-based machinery equipment to prime movers.
• Service and maintain land-based prime-movers, machinery, and equipment to manufacturer’s recommendations.
• Adopt safe working practices that ensure personal safety and the safety of others and the environment.
• Conduct static and basic operational inspections and check compliance with legislative safety requirements and system tests to establish actions to be taken.
• Interrogate control systems to view error codes, reset indicators, and verify software updates.
• Carry out checks and tests to ensure prime-movers, machinery, and equipment meet manufacturers specifications before and after repair.
• Identify and follow technical documentation and perform hydraulic or electrical repair activities on land-based machinery.
• Perform transmission or engine repair activities on land-based machinery.
• Record and interpret technical information relating to land-based service, maintenance, and repair operations.
• Apply the principles of customer care when dealing with internal and external customers relevant to own role.
• Maintain service and warranty records, record data, and report findings to stakeholders.
• Carry out pre-delivery inspections and conduct assembly as required on land-based equipment and prime movers.
• Check settings and make adjustments on land-based equipment to meet customer requirements.
• Carry out land-based machinery inspections.
• Prepare and reinstate the work area for land-based engineering activities.
• Clean land-based machinery and equipment.
• Select and use PPE, tools, and equipment required to undertake land-based engineering activities.
• Prepare land-based prime-movers, machinery, and equipment for service, maintenance, and repair activities.
• Prepare parts, components, and sub-assemblies prior to reassembly, including inspecting, cleaning, refurbishing, sharpening, resealing, straightening, and balancing.
• Refit and re-assemble parts, components, and sub-assemblies, ensuring their compatibility and relationship including timing and alignment.
• Select the appropriate lifting, supporting, and securing equipment.
• Apply thermal bonding and separation methods to join, fabricate, and repair materials and components.
• Complete organisational documentation and reports.
• Carry out work in compliance with legislative and organisational requirements.
• Lift, support, and secure loads, land-based machinery, equipment, and assemblies.
• Setup land-based prime movers, machinery, and equipment to meet customer requirements.
• Connect, attach, and fit land-based machinery equipment to prime movers.
• Service and maintain land-based prime-movers, machinery, and equipment to manufacturer’s recommendations.
• Adopt safe working practices that ensure personal safety and the safety of others and the environment.
• Conduct static and basic operational inspections and check compliance with legislative safety requirements and system tests to establish actions to be taken.
• Interrogate control systems to view error codes, reset indicators, and verify software updates.
• Carry out checks and tests to ensure prime-movers, machinery, and equipment meet manufacturers specifications before and after repair.
• Identify and follow technical documentation and perform hydraulic or electrical repair activities on land-based machinery.
• Perform transmission or engine repair activities on land-based machinery.
• Record and interpret technical information relating to land-based service, maintenance, and repair operations.
• Apply the principles of customer care when dealing with internal and external customers relevant to own role.
• Maintain service and warranty records, record data, and report findings to stakeholders.
• Carry out pre-delivery inspections and conduct assembly as required on land-based equipment and prime movers.
• Check settings and make adjustments on land-based equipment to meet customer requirements.
• Carry out land-based machinery inspections.