Bodyshop Panel Technician Apprenticeship ‑Luton

Do you want a dynamic and exciting career in the automotive industry? Steer are offering a fantastic opportunity for an Apprentice Vehicle Body Technician to join their busy bodyshop.

Your role includes the technical and practical needs for today’s motor vehicle body repair industry.

You will study both the theory and practical aspects of the following:

• Materials and consumables
• Removing and fitting non-structural body panels
• Motor vehicle chassis and body alignment
• Vehicle body types
• Panel identification
• Safety systems
• Materials and alternative fuel
• Use of body panel repair tools and devices used in the process
• Removal and replacement of body panels and associated parts
• Interpretation of technical data for joining techniques and replacement panels
• Quality control process and the implications of poor quality

The successful candidate will work independently and as part of a team following a defined process, using their skills to correctly identify the different body panel types and have the ability to use the correct repair tools to carry out the work to the highest possible standard.

Duties will include:

• Undertake appropriate job preparation prior to commencing repair, including safety precautions, panel preparation and body measurements
• Identify the material used in the construction to enable the correct joining techniques and manufacturer specifications to be adhered to
• Interpret relevant technical data and methods to make sure that any joints are in line with vehicle manufacturer specification and the vehicle/body panels are aligned correctly
• Ability to identify and understand the correct joining technology
• Remove, repair and replace vehicle body panels and components of the vehicle safely and efficiently
• Operate the correct repair tools devices used in the process, panel pulling systems, jig and alignment tools, spot welders, brazing tools
• Identify and communicate supplementary damage such as panels that were deemed to be reparable but once worked on were found to be beyond repair along with damage that could not be established on original inspection
• Ability to detect and rectify faults within a vehicles structure that’s integral to its safety