RAC in conjunction with North London Garages

Exciting Opportunities for Apprentice Service Maintenance & Repair Technicians

The RAC is the UK’s leading breakdown service provider, a people-powered business of 4,000 ‘Orange Heroes’ delivering the best-in-class motoring services for both private and business drivers.

Wage

• £16,500 a year
• Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)
• Starting with a salary of £16,500 per year in the first year and increasing to the National Living Wage in the second year (plus a £5,000 London Weighting Allowance if applicable)

Training Course

• Autocare Technician (Level 2)

Hours

• Your working week will involve working shifts to ensure we meet our customer’s needs. Contracted hours average at 40 hours per week.
• 30 hours a week

Start Date

• Saturday 29 August 2026

Duration

• 2 years

Positions Available

• 1

What You'll Do at Work

As an apprentice mobile mechanic, you will complete services, repairs, and diagnostics at customers' homes or workplaces, offering a diverse range of experiences:

• Throughout your qualification, you'll have access to a fully equipped, state-of-the-art company vehicle and complete toolkit, which will ensure you have the tools needed to succeed and grow.
• You’ll enjoy variety- diagnostics, repairs, servicing, and checks and gain confidence in making decisions on the spot.
• You’ll take pride in doing a quality job every time, delivering the complete peace of mind that comes from the RAC.

Where You'll Work

This RAC apprenticeship will be available in many locations across England.

Training Provider

• NORTH LONDON GARAGES GTA

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.