Engineering Quality Apprentice

Summary

The quality team provide functional expertise to influence and ensure a continuous improvement culture across the business. You will become a Quality specialist, whilst learning about the fundamentals of quality and compliance in a market leading technology business.

Annual wage

£19,000 a year

Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)

£19,000 - £23,000 depending on experience +annual increases aligned to performance +annual bonus +flex benefits package including a health cash plan

Training course

Quality practitioner (level 4)

Hours

Monday to Thursday, 8.30am to 5.15pm. Friday, 8.30am to 12.30pm.

37 hours a week

Possible start date

Monday 8 September

Duration

1 year 8 months

Positions available

1

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

The quality team provide functional expertise to influence and ensure a continuous improvement culture across the business. We look after the management system which contains all controlled documents such as policies and procedures, and encourage a culture of continuous improvement. Your work could include the development of our management system and its documents, as well as strategic quality improvement projects to make better use of data for decision-making on quality and artificial intelligence or machine learning.

This apprenticeship will allow you to progress your education and become a quality specialist, whilst learning about the fundamentals of quality in a market leading technology business.

Day-to-day, you'll be:

Growing skills and experience in all areas of responsibility of the global Quality organisation.
Gaining familiarity with our Vacuum Technique Business Area, its structure, and its key products and customers.
Gaining subject matter understanding of quality, reliability, compliance and engineering processes.
Gaining subject matter understanding of environmental impact of our business, products and services and how we can reduce this impact in future.
Developing skills to create and deliver controlled documents and training material.
Gaining an understanding of change management methods used during a project.Developing proficiency in project management and time management skills.
Developing a network of contacts within the Research and Development group and wider business.
Experiencing working within a truly global multidisciplinary organisation.
Contributing to our early careers outreach or marketing initiatives to develop essential workplace requirements including teamwork, planning and communication skills.

Where you’ll work

Innovation Drive

Burgess Hill

West Sussex

RH15 9TW

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

CSR SCIENTIFIC TRAINING LIMITED

Your training course

Quality practitioner (level 4)

Equal to higher national certificate (HNC)

Course contents

Identify, interpret and apply relevant legal, governmental or industry regulations affecting the organisation.
Communicate using appropriate methods (verbal, written, visual) to influence internal and external stakeholders, using appropriate questioning techniques such as open questions, leading questions.
Identify, collect and analyse relevant quality data using appropriate tools and techniques such as Pareto analysis, statistical methods and trending analysis.
Apply methods and tools to improve the quality performance of processes, products and services such as production control plans, standardised work, use of failure modes and effects.
Identify, analyse and prioritise quality specific risks and opportunities. Support the development, implementation and effectiveness of resulting actions.
Plan and conduct system, product or process audits.
Assess the effectiveness of the measurement systems using tool such as Measurement Systems Analysis.
Identify requirements from technical documents, commercial input or stakeholder statements and converting to definitions that can drive the organisations processes
Identify gaps in process performance and develop improvement plans to close gaps.
Apply structured problem solving including identification, definition, measurement, analysis, improvement and control methods and tools.
Communicate organisational quality strategy to all levels of the organisation.
Identify who the internal and external stakeholders are and their current and optimal positions (such as hostile, help it work, opposed, uncooperative, indifferent, hesitant, enthusiastic support) required to support quality related activities.
Identify, interpret and apply relevant legal, governmental or industry regulations affecting the organisation.
Communicate using appropriate methods (verbal, written, visual) to influence internal and external stakeholders, using appropriate questioning techniques such as open questions, leading questions.
Identify, collect and analyse relevant quality data using appropriate tools and techniques such as Pareto analysis, statistical methods and trending analysis.
Apply methods and tools to improve the quality performance of processes, products and services such as production control plans, standardised work, use of failure modes and effects.
Identify, analyse and prioritise quality specific risks and opportunities. Support the development, implementation and effectiveness of resulting actions.
Plan and conduct system, product or process audits.
Assess the effectiveness of the measurement systems using tool such as Measurement Systems Analysis.
Identify requirements from technical documents, commercial input or stakeholder statements and converting to definitions that can drive the organisations processes
Identify gaps in process performance and develop improvement plans to close gaps.
Apply structured problem solving including identification, definition, measurement, analysis, improvement and control methods and tools.
Communicate organisational quality strategy to all levels of the organisation.
Identify who the internal and external stakeholders are and their current and optimal positions (such as hostile, help it work, opposed, uncooperative, indifferent, hesitant, enthusiastic support) required to support quality related activities.

Your training plan

This training plan has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.

More training information

Through the training provider, CSR Scientific Training, you will undertake a Level 4 Quality Practitioner Apprenticeship which will include:

Fully recognised apprenticeship qualification - Level 4 Quality Practitioner
On-the-job competency training
Monthly online lectures
Continuous improvement project

This apprenticeship is professionally recognised by the Chartered Quality Institute (CQI) and successful completion of this programme provides opportunity for Practitioner registration with the CQI.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

3 more GCSEs (grade 4)
English Language (grade 4)
Maths (grade 4)

A Level in:

2 A-levels including Maths or a Science (grade C)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Communication skills
IT skills
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Administrative skills
Analytical skills
Logical
Team working
Initiative

Other requirements

There will be an in-person selection day in Burgess Hill on Thursday 6th February 2025 so please bear this in mind when submitting an application. The vacancy will close early if we receive a high number of applications.

About this company

We create some of the purest vacuum environments on earth for widescale use in industry and research. We take pride in our globally recognised position as the number one technology partner and supplier of vacuum process solutions in support of our customers’ environmental and productivity targets. Providing simple solutions to complex problems, it’s an exciting journey and you can play a key role. Our caring culture and cutting-edge technology enable us to innovate for a sustainable future, and we believe that passionate people make it happen.

https://www.edwardsvacuum.com/en-uk (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

On completion of the apprenticeship programme, the expectation is to move to a permanent role within the Quality team.

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