Quality Assurance Apprentice - commencing Summer 2025
THORNTON & ROSS LIMITED
Linthwaite Nr Huddersfield, HD7 5QH
Closes in 16 days (Friday 28 February)
Posted on 4 February 2025
Contents
Summary
You will be immersed in the Quality Assurance (QA) team at STADA. You will work alongside seasoned professionals, gaining valuable experience in QA in maintaining operational quality standards, conducting investigations, and ensuring compliance with regulations and guidelines, ensuring high-quality Production across the organisation.
- Wage
- £17,500 a year
- Training course
- Quality practitioner (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday
Hybrid working – we spend three days of your choice in the office, with the remaining days working at home. Shifts to be confirmed.
38 hours a week
- Possible start date
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Tuesday 1 July
- Duration
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2 years
- Positions available
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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
On a day to day basis your key responsibilities will include:
- Gain a thorough understanding of current Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and relevant international standards, learning how to apply them in a practical setting.
- Participate in deviation investigations, contributing to risk assessments and root cause analysis under the guidance of experienced QA professionals.
- Assist in complaints investigations, learning to assess risks and identify root causes.
- Learn to recommend appropriate actions and initiate them through relevant systems such as CAPA and Change Control.
- Support the generation of product quality review reports, gaining insights into quality documentation processes.
- Assist in the management of retained samples and archiving activities associated with quality documentation.
- Participate in batch review activities for cosmetics and foods, learning to monitor and report on quality KPIs and key quality data.
- Provide Quality input and support to relevant meetings, developing communication and collaboration skills.
- Learn to ensure activities and changes to equipment and working practices comply with applicable regulations and guidelines for various products, including licensed medicines, medical devices, cosmetics, food, and biocides.
- Support improvement opportunities in line with ISO or other applicable standards, learning to document manufacturing operations for optimum performance.
- Work to an agreed program of priorities, providing regular feedback and progress reports to mentors and supervisors.
- Proactively manage resources to ensure deadlines are met, developing time management and organizational skills.
Where you’ll work
Linthwaite Nr Huddersfield
HD7 5QH
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
JC TRAINING & CONSULTANCY LTD
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
Alongside your role as the QA Apprentice, you will undertake the 14-month Quality Practitioner (Level 3) Apprenticeship to achieve your qualification through a mixture of on-site and online academic learning.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4 or above)
- Maths (grade 4 or above)
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
- Team working
About this company
STADA Thornton & Ross is one of UK's fastest-growing producers of consumer healthcare products including Covonia, Savlon, Nizoral, Cetraben and Zoflora. Our Specialty and Generic medicines also address therapeutic areas including dermatology, bone health, kidney disease and more. With more than 700 employees, we’re proud that our growth journey is supporting Britain’s wellbeing in multiple settings, including consumer healthcare, hospital, primary care, pharmacy and homecare. Our mission is Caring for People’s Health as a Trusted Partner, and we’re always looking out for talented people to join our team and support our exciting growth plan.
https://www.thorntonross.com/ (opens in new tab)
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
Working within STADA UK, this is an exciting opportunity to begin a career within Quality Assurance.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
JC TRAINING & CONSULTANCY LTD
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000300423.
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Closes in 16 days (Friday 28 February)
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