Transport Engineering and Maintenance
This Apprenticeship deals with the maintenance and repair of buses and coaches, or passenger carrying vehicles (PCVs). Public transport is becoming more and more important as we try to reduce carbon emissions and cut the volume of traffic on the roads, and we need skilled personnel to keep things moving.
PCVs that regularly carry large numbers of people get put under a tremendous amount of strain. Modern PCVs are strong and well designed, but they need to be properly maintained and then repaired when they break down.
This is where Transport Engineering and Maintenance (TEM) staff come in. TEM staff can do anything from routine maintenance on buses to more technically advanced jobs, like working out where a particular electrical fault has occurred on a bus and repairing it.
Apprentices will have the choice of focusing on bodywork, mechanics or electrics – the three pathways involve some different training and require different skills, but whatever you end up doing it will be a vital role that will help to keep the transport network up and running.
Job Roles
- Auto electrician
- Bodywork repairer
- PCV technician
Last Updated: 24/12/2009
