Automotive Refinishing Competition

Overview

Automotive Refinishing is a significant sector within the automotive engineering industry, automotive refinishing covers, painting of cars, trucks, other vehicles, partly or totally, and single parts of vehicles, often after the completion of body repairs, this includes a wide range of skills, high standards, critical thinking and process applications.

This competition assesses the skills, abilities of competitors entering the field of Automotive Refinishing.

The competition has been designed to reflect the work role of a vehicle refinishing technician, including skills such as time management, planning and problem solving.

The skills you need to demonstrate

Collect, analyse, and organise information
Communicate ideas and information
Plan and organise work activities
Use mathematical ideas and techniques
Solve problems
Use current technology
Comply with H&S legislation

Useful resources

Prepare for competition success

Our library of endorsed local skills competition briefs ‘benchmarking assessments’ helps prepare learners to build technical skills, productivity, and mindset competencies for national competition success, including employability progression pathways.

Paired with the benchmarking tracker, educators can record progress, identifying strengths and target areas for improvement. Together, they offer a reliable, standards-led framework, creating a sustainable model for skills development that supports educators to empower learners to be competition ready.

Access on the Learning Lab

Contact details

richardh@theimi.org.uk

Entry criteria

The competitors should be studying a Level 3 automotive qualification OR completed an automotive apprenticeship within the last 12 months.
The competitor should have less than 4 years’ experience in the automotive industry
This is an individual competition

How it works

1. Register

Registrations open 9am on Monday 3 March and will close midnight Friday 28 March.

2. Entry stage

Entry Stage will be released on Monday 3 March with a final deadline of 4 April, 2025.

3. National Qualifiers

Qualifiers will take place from the 14-16 May at Eyebox Training and Conference Centre in Coventry.

4. Training and Development

To help finalists prepare ahead of the UK Final, we will provide relevant technical training and share mindset development techniques, to support them to remain focused on achieving success.

Prepare students and apprentices by engaging with our benchmarking resources to master their skills and mindset masterclasses to build confidence and resilience on the WorldSkills UK Learning Lab.

5. National Finals

The National Finals are scheduled to take place in Wales during the week beginning 24 November, 2025.