Apprentice Mechanic

Apprenticeship Overview

Erewash Borough Council is offering an exciting chance to join their team as an Apprentice Mechanic – no prior qualifications needed, just enthusiasm! This fully funded Level 2 Apprenticeship covers tractors, mowers, strimmers, and hedge cutters. You\’ll get the chance to assist with servicing vans and HGVs, giving you a taste of heavy‑duty mechanics.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications & Skills

• GCSE English (grade 3/D)
• GCSE Maths (grade 3/D)
• Communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Problem solving skills
• Team working
• Initiative
• Patience
• Physical fitness
• Enthusiastic, physically fit and ready for hands‑on work; a curious mind with a genuine interest in how machines work; a committed and enthusiastic individual eager to build a career in engineering. If you have GCSEs (or equivalent) at grade 3/D in English and Maths—or are willing to work toward them—this could be the opportunity for you. Prior experience in engineering is a bonus, but not essential.

Training & Learning

This apprenticeship offers full‑time, hands‑on training in the workplace for five days a week, with one day released for off‑the‑job learning at college. You\’ll gain practical experience alongside expert guidance, combining real‑world skills with formal qualifications.

Benefits

• 29 or 33 days annual leave a year (after 5 years continuous service) plus bank holidays
• Free workplace parking
• Training & CPD opportunities
• Local Government Pension Scheme
• Discounted leisure membership VIVUP employee benefits & discounts