Level 3 Apprentice Motor Vehicle Service and Maintenance Technician – Regent Autos Limited
REGENT AUTOS LIMITED
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE (NE15 8SG)
Closes in 30 days (Wednesday 28 May 2025)
Posted on 28 April 2025
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Summary
We are excited to offer an excellent opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic Apprentice Mechanic to join our team and begin a rewarding career in the motor vehicle service and maintenance industry. You will receive real-world training, build your skills alongside experienced mechanics, and work within a supportive and dynamic environment.
- Wage
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£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Motor vehicle service and maintenance technician - light vehicle (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday – Friday, between 8:30AM – 5:30PM (½ hour lunch break).
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 9 September 2025
- Duration
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3 years
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you’ll do at work
As an Apprentice Motor Vehicle Technician, you will work closely with our skilled team to:
- Assist in carrying out routine maintenance and repair work on a variety of vehicles
- Learn to diagnose and troubleshoot mechanical issues using modern diagnostic tools and techniques
- Perform basic automotive tasks such as oil changes, tyre rotations, and brake inspections
- Maintain a clean, organised, and safe workshop environment
- Follow strict safety procedures to ensure a safe workplace
- Communicate effectively with colleagues and customers to support smooth operations
Where you’ll work
23 RIVERSDALE COURT
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NE15 8SG
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
NCG
Your training course
Motor vehicle service and maintenance technician - light vehicle (level 3)
Equal to A level
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.
- 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.
Your training plan
You will attend Newcastle College one day per week to study.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
- Physical fitness
About this company
At Regent Autos we have a fully equipped workshop with all of the specialist tools and diagnostic equipment allowing us to provide gearbox repairs, clutch replacements, brake pad changes and brake repairs, exhaust repairs and replacements, air conditioning servicing and wheel alignment. We’re fully equipped with all the equipment we need to make sure we can get your car back in working order, no matter what make or model. We understand the busy world we live in and how difficult it is to fit everything in, so why not let Regent Autos help. We offer a customer drop off service and a vehicle collection and delivery service.
After this apprenticeship
Successful apprentices could be offered a full-time permanent role upon completion of the apprenticeship.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
NCG
apprenticeships@ncl-coll.ac.uk
01912004844
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000317431.
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Closes in 30 days (Wednesday 28 May 2025)
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