
Repair minor defects in all types of body panels and materials.Prepare & refinish metal, plastic and pre-painted surfaces.Prepare all types of vehicle body material.Apply body filler & foundation materials.Which techniques & products to employ with each type of repair process.The preparation techniques required for different materials & surfaces.The different materials used in vehicle construction.

Identify and rectify vehicle body structural misalignment.Remove, repair and replace structural body panels.Repair vehicles using non thermal joining, bonding and adhesive processes.Repair vehicles using thermal welding operations and processes.Repair all types of vehicle body panels.Vehicle body mechanical fastening operations.Vehicle bonding and adhesives procedures.Diagnose and rectify basic vehicle electrical faults.Identify and describe principle vehicle electrical components and systems.Remove and refit all types of vehicle body panels.Remove and re-assemble permanent & non-permanent fixed vehicle body panels.Re-assemble replacement or existing components to a vehicle.Remove all damaged & associated components from a vehicle.


Apprentices without Level 2 English and maths will need to achieve this level prior to taking the end-point assessment. In order to optimise success, typical applicants will display a good attitude, a positive approach to learning & development and a high level of ambition. Individual employers will set their own selection criteria for applicants.
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Typically this apprenticeship will take 2 years to complete. The ability to excel whilst working within a team is a key output for any Accident Repair Technician. The Accident Repair Technician from day one embraces the need to put complete customer satisfaction, as well as commercial awareness, at the centre of everything they do. An Accident Repair Technician has the ability to work in a focused, analytical and methodical fashion, completing repairs on time, every time with a right-first-time, customer focused culture under-pinning all their activities. Additionally the Accident Repair Technician is able to interpret and work accurately to detailed and complex technical repair specifications / instructions and, at times, obtain these instructions from a range of electronic sources. Uniquely, they work on and obtain a level of competence in all craft aspects of vehicle accident repair, including Mechanical, Electrical & Trim (MET) Panel Repair & Replacement Preparation and Paint – not just one as has been the case in the past. Typically, the Accident Repair Technician works in a modern highly technical workshop-type environment, working on a broad range of vehicles from cars and car derived vans to light commercial vehicles. These range from small damage through to heavily impacted types of damage requiring complex and detailed repair or replacement of major structural elements of the vehicle. Accident repair technician Reference Number: ST0352 Details of standard O cc up a t i o n - Overview of the role.Ī motor vehicle Accident Repair Technician repairs all elements of a vehicle after it has sustained some type of collision damage.
