An automotive mechanic is a professional that adjusts, installs, maintains and it repairs engines and pieces of standard family car engines, motorbikes, vans, lorries and other motor vehicles. To achieve this, a mechanic checks the operation of the motor and undertakes pertinent repairs or part replacements.

• Adjust, examine, test and maintain vehicle engines.
• Replace non-functioning engines with new ones.
  
• Equip vehicles with new mechanical parts.
• Examine, adjust, dismantle, reconstruct and replace flawed mechanical parts in the vehicles.
• Carry out maintenance of the vehicles' mechanical constructions.
• Use electronic systems of detection of vehicles' problems, in order to detect breakdowns.
• Interpret expert documentation from insurers to carry out corresponding repairs as described in the surveyor's report.
• Use specific computer programs set aside for the vehicle analysis.

Regulated training and graduates

• Professional Training Course(s) in the field of Family Transport and vehicle maintenance - Intermediate level: Motor vehicles electromechanics
• Professional Training Course(s) in the field of Family Transport and vehicle maintenance - Intermediate level: Motor vehicles electromechanics, professional profile electromechanical industrial vehicles

Complementary training

Other specific skills

Initiative: Level 1

Orientation within reach: Level 1

Concern for order and quality: Level 2

Analytical thought: Level 1

Team work and cooperation: Level 1

Mechanical handling

People related to the field of mechanical handling are interested in the assembly, maintenance, repair and use of machines, tools and installations. Some good examples of professional activities in the field of mechanical handling are adjusting and configuring machines, reviewing technical equipment to detect incidents in their operation, handling machinery in production processes and driving specialised vehicles.

Engineer

Train Maintenance Operator

Electrical and mechanical engineer

Tubular scaffolding assembler

Tower-crane operator

• Work hours

  Full-time working day with a morning or afternoon schedule. On many occasions, you must have availability to work on Saturday mornings in this post, which is the regular opening hours of shops and services.

• Salary

  Salaries for a professional automotive mechanic range from 16.865 to 22.498 euros per annum gross. Median: 19.479 euros annum groos.
  
  Source: Report "Observatory of Jobs and Salaries of the Labour Market. Barcelona Activa", elaborated by ICSA Grupo. April 2015.

• Professional category

  Specialist staff