Level 3 Land Based Engineering*
*Subject to approval
Course Details
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Department
Agriculture -
Qualification
Level 3 -
Course Type
Full Time -
Length
2 Years -
Location(s)
York
Course at a glance
Kick start your career in Land Based Engineering! This two year course gives you the practical skills, technical expertise and real world experience to succeed in this fast paced industry. With strong employer links, industry talks, and compulsory work placement each year, you’ll progress with the skills and confidence that employers are looking for.
Entry Requirements
4 GCSEs
4 GCSE’s 4-9, including English and Maths at grade 4 or above required
Cost for students aged Under 19
Free
for students over the age of 19 please contact us
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Key Information
You’ll cover essential foundations like health and safety, workshop processes and industry work experience, before tackling specialist projects that mirror real engineering challenges. Alongside this, you’ll develop the ability to repair and maintain engines, vehicle systems, electrics, hydraulics, transmissions and a wide range of agricultural machinery.
What you’ll learn:
- Health & Safety – work safely and professionally in workshops and on-site.
- Industry Work Experience – complete 150 hours each year with real employers to gain hands-on experience and build contacts.
- Specialist Projects – tackle real-world engineering challenges to develop your problem-solving skills.
- Workshop Skills – master the tools, techniques and calculations needed for professional service engineering.
- Engines – repair and maintain powerful diesel and petrol engines.
- Vehicle Systems – diagnose and fix key components across land-based vehicles.
- Electrics & Electronics – repair electrical systems and test modern electronic technology.
- Hydraulics – maintain and repair hydraulic systems found in heavy machinery.
- Transmissions – work on mechanical power transmission, synchromesh, clutches, powershift and CVT systems.
- Crop & Field Machinery – gain hands-on skills repairing cultivation, drilling, spraying, forage harvesting and crop harvesting machinery.
Students undertake most of their practical sessions in our impressive Agri-tech workshop facility, which is a modern well resourced workshop.
Additional qualifications are offered at the commencement of their programme in subjects such as rough terrain fork lift truck operation, ATV training, tractor driving as well as health and safety in agriculture. Additional charges may apply.
4 GCSE’s 4-9, including English and Maths at grade 4 or above required
Alternatively, L2 Land Based Engineering at Merit and Maths and English grade 4 qualification with English and Maths at Level 2 (as above)
On completion, you’ll be ready to enter the industry as a Land-Based Service Engineer, working with manufacturers, dealerships, or in agricultural workshops – or progress into further specialist training.
Progression and Development Sessions
All students enrolled on a Level 2 or Level 3 course will be required to attend Progression and Development sessions every week. These sessions will cover a wide range of topics from careers and employability, British Values and equality and diversity to essential life skills such as mental health and wellbeing, drugs and alcohol and personal safety.
A relevant land based engineering work placement is required. Students must complete a minimum of 150 hours on work placements.
Ideally students should find their own work placement provider, however we do have a list of providers which we may be able to contact should you be unsuccessful in finding a placement independently. Students can undertake placements with machinery dealerships, agricultural engineering, farm mechanics, agricultural contracting businesses, on even doing general farm work farms. Work placement may be carried out on family home farms/businesses.
Students are expected to buy PPE, consisting of overalls and steel toe capped boots for practical sessions. A normal range of stationery is required for theory sessions.
Trip costs are kept to a minimum wherever possible, trip information will be provided at the start of the course.
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York is the College's residential campus and is located just four miles from York city centre. At York we offer a full range of subject areas and levels including Apprenticeships, Level 1-3 Diplomas, Foundation, Top Up and BSc Honours Degrees.
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