- NAS Reference
VAC001839985
- Weekly wage
£240.00
- Hours
40.00 per week
- Working Week
Mon-Fri 08.30 -17.00
- Date Posted
30/03/2022
- Start Date
02/05/2022
- Location
Ashford
- Expected Duration
33 months
- Status
Now Taking Applications
- Sector
Accident repair technician
- Employment Type
Advanced Level Apprenticeship
- Employer
A B L Kent Ltd
Description of Opportunity
ABL 1 Touch are offering a fantastic opportunity for an Apprentice Accident Repair Technician to join their busy vehicle repair centre. You will be learning how to provide industry leading repair services to clients and provide them with support during the repair process.
For more information about this vacancy please contact Nottingham College Apprenticeship Team - NOTTINGHAM COLLEGE (Ref ID: VAC001839985)
• Manual skills • Efficient • Communication • Eager to learn • Team work
To have achieved GCSE Maths and English equivalent to Level A*-D / 9 to 3 before completing apprenticeship.
Mechanically minded
Interest in the body shop environment.
Outgoing
Confident
Professional
Keen interest in the automotive industry.
The current National Minimum Wage for an apprentice is £4.30 an hour. This rate applies to apprentices under 19 and those aged 19 or over who are in their first year.
Apprentices must be paid at least the minimum wage rate for their age if they are aged 19 or over and have completed their first year.
The minimum wage rates are £6.45 an hour for 18-20 year olds and £7.70 for anyone aged 21 and over.
Apprentices are paid for their normal working hours and training that’s part of their apprenticeship (usually one day per week).
Upon successful completion of apprenticeship, the role holder will continue to develop their skills and abilities through ongoing continuous improvement, with the potential to develop career opportunities and earnings potential in line with their productivity.
Established over 25 years ago, ABL started as a family-owned accident repair business reaching 4 sites in 2011. In 2015 the 1 Touch Repair Group was created to offer an alternate solution to the industry, moving away from large sites, incorporating the ‘repair over replace’ ethos that was at the heart of ABL, providing innovative, technical centers to attract the leading talent in the industry.
This grew quickly from 2 sites in 2015 to 9 sites by the end of 2020. At the end of 2020, backed by Private Equity investment ABL and 1 Touch Repair finally became ABL 1 Touch with 13 sites in total.
ABL 1 Touch takes pride in providing industry leading customer journeys by ensuring we promote a culture throughout the business that attracts and retains the best talent.
At ABL 1 Touch, we take great pride in our company values, and incorporate them into everything we do. Our values were rebranded three years ago, as part of a wider project where a culture team was put together to look at how the working environment could be improved for employees.
It was important to ensure everyone in the business was aiming for the same goal, therefore the culture team engaged with all employees with surveys and focus groups to find out their honest views of the business. As part of the work, adjectives were taken from employee submissions that described their feelings towards the company and from this emerged three words which became our company values, evolving completely from our employees, which are engrained into the business and shapes everything that we do on a daily basis:
Pride: Do the right thing
Innovate: Lead the way
Responsible: Take ownership