Apprenticeships

Automotive

Fancy revving up your future with an exciting career in Automotive? Love cars and want to earn money while you learn how to maintain and repair them? Now’s the time to get in the driving seat and get an Automotive apprenticeship with Newcastle College.

You’ll have plenty of choice with our automotive apprenticeships. From accident repair to maintenance, vehicle repair and auto care, building your skills with Newcastle College will set you up for a great future in industry.

You’ll be supported throughout your apprenticeship by industry-experienced tutors and an employer who’ll keep your future on track.

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Vehicle Damage Paint Technician Apprenticeship

Have you got a passion for cars? Do you see a future in car repair? If you like combining cars with being creative then the Vehicle Damage Paint Technician apprenticeship is for you.

Length: 3 years
Study: Part-Time
Start Date: Various
Location: Employer Based

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Vehicle Damage Panel Technician Apprenticeship

Are you a methodical thinker who’s fast at fixing things? Do you fancy starting a career in the Automotive industry? If you like working with cars then the Vehicle Damage Panel Technician apprenticeship is for you.

Length: 3 years
Study: Part-Time
Start Date: Various
Location: Employer Based

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Motor Vehicle Service and Maintenance Technician (Light Vehicle) Apprenticeship

Looking for a way to earn as you learn while gaining skills in automotive principles? Study an Automotive Apprenticeship!

Length: 3 years
Study: Part-Time
Start Date: Various
Location: Employer Based

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Current Apprenticeship Vacancies

We work with employers across the North East to offer you the latest apprenticeship opportunities!

Find out which employers are currently offering apprenticeships and apply for any of our current vacancies to start earning whilst you learn!

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Daily tasks:

Repairs and services air conditioning, heating and engine-cooling systems.
Installs additional electrical amenities such as radio/CD players, aerials.
Checks condition of electrical/electronic systems and carries out servicing tasks.
Diagnoses faults in electrical/electronic circuitry, removes faulty components and fits replacements.
Carries out routine maintenance checks on oil and air filters, brakes and other vehicle parts/systems.
Reassembles, tests, adjusts and tunes the appropriate parts, systems or entire engine.
Removes, dismantles, repairs and replaces defective parts and prepares new parts using appropriate tools.
Visually checks, test drives or uses test equipment to diagnose engine and mechanical faults.

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Median Salary

£25,953 View more

Daily tasks:

Positions, secures and repairs external fittings including windows, doors, door handles, catches and roof attachments.
Installs and repairs interior fittings including seats, seatbelts and fascia in cars, sinks and special features in caravans and mobile shops.
Hammers out dents in bodywork, fills in small depressions or corroded areas in solder, plastic or other filler compound and replaces body panels using hand and power tools.
Repairs damage to chassis and engine mountings using hydraulic rams, jacks and jigs.
Selects, cuts, shapes and assembles materials to form parts of vehicle underframe, framework and body.
Diagnoses job requirements or ascertains work specifications from drawings or instructions.

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Median Salary

£24,160 View more

Daily tasks:

Orders new supplies, arranges storage and updates stock records.
Organises delivery of parts and handles payment.
Obtains parts from store or orders from suppliers.
Receives orders for parts by phone, email or in person and checks availability on stock record.
Updates stock record, orders new vehicles from manufacturer, buys in used cars.
Carries out pre-delivery inspection and formal hand-over of vehicle to customer.
Negotiates sale price including any ‘trade-in’ and extra accessories, works out finance arrangements and completes sales paperwork.
Discusses customer.

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Median Salary

£21,849 View more

Vehicle technicians, mechanics and electricians

Daily tasks:

Repairs and services air conditioning, heating and engine-cooling systems.
Installs additional electrical amenities such as radio/CD players, aerials.
Checks condition of electrical/electronic systems and carries out servicing tasks.
Diagnoses faults in electrical/electronic circuitry, removes faulty components and fits replacements.
Carries out routine maintenance checks on oil and air filters, brakes and other vehicle parts/systems.
Reassembles, tests, adjusts and tunes the appropriate parts, systems or entire engine.
Removes, dismantles, repairs and replaces defective parts and prepares new parts using appropriate tools.
Visually checks, test drives or uses test equipment to diagnose engine and mechanical faults.

Median Salary

£25,953 View more

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Vehicle body builders and repairers

Daily tasks:

Positions, secures and repairs external fittings including windows, doors, door handles, catches and roof attachments.
Installs and repairs interior fittings including seats, seatbelts and fascia in cars, sinks and special features in caravans and mobile shops.
Hammers out dents in bodywork, fills in small depressions or corroded areas in solder, plastic or other filler compound and replaces body panels using hand and power tools.
Repairs damage to chassis and engine mountings using hydraulic rams, jacks and jigs.
Selects, cuts, shapes and assembles materials to form parts of vehicle underframe, framework and body.
Diagnoses job requirements or ascertains work specifications from drawings or instructions.

Median Salary

£24,160 View more

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Vehicle and Parts Salespersons and Advisers

Daily tasks:

Orders new supplies, arranges storage and updates stock records.
Organises delivery of parts and handles payment.
Obtains parts from store or orders from suppliers.
Receives orders for parts by phone, email or in person and checks availability on stock record.
Updates stock record, orders new vehicles from manufacturer, buys in used cars.
Carries out pre-delivery inspection and formal hand-over of vehicle to customer.
Negotiates sale price including any ‘trade-in’ and extra accessories, works out finance arrangements and completes sales paperwork.
Discusses customer.

Median Salary

£21,849 View more

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Colin Greathead

Programme Leader - Automotive

"The projection of technology and the rate at which it changes in the Automotive Industry makes this subject so exciting. I have worked in Industry and Education helping apprentices, trainee’s and students develop their skills and knowledge. Automotive has been part of my life longer than I can remember!"

Kevin Illingworth

Course Leader - Automotive

"I have lots of years’ experience teaching and working in the Automotive industry, working for brands like Nissan. My job gives me the chance to teach the things I am most passionate about. Teaching Automotive is interesting, rewarding and lots of fun."

Tony Neild

Lecturer - Automotive

"Automotive is an ever-changing sector that has grown faster than most other things of our time. I want to share my knowledge so I can help build a new generation of skilled, professional and diligent Technicians."