Trainee Quality Advisor Apprenticeship

Summary

Kickstart your career in quality assurance with our Trainee Quality Advisor role! Gain hands-on experience in QMS, compliance, audits, and process improvements within an engineering/construction environment. Learn from experienced professionals, providing a dynamic start to your career in quality management. Apply today!

Wage: Competitive
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Training course: Quality practitioner (level 4)
Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 5pm with one hour for a lunch break.
36 hours 30 minutes a week
Possible start date: Monday 1 September
Duration: 1 year 2 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

Below are some of the activities you will be involved in:

Engage with the project teams to support in the implementation of our Quality Management System requirement.
Conduct internal audits, assist in external audits, and ensure non-conformities are addressed.
Manage non-conformance reports (NCRs) and implement corrective and preventive actions to address quality issues.
Help maintain quality documentation, reports, and records to ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.
Support continuous improvement initiatives.
Assist in delivering quality awareness training to staff.

Where you’ll work

Lock House
2 Castle Meadow Road
Nottingham
NG2 1AG

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

CLEAR QUALITY 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

14 months duration, including End Point Assessment.
Monthly 4 hour session, tutor led on Teams.
Progress reviews every 8 weeks.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

Maths, English and Science (grade 4/C 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
Problem solving skills
Administrative skills
Analytical skills
Logical
Team working
Creative
Initiative
Non judgemental

Other requirements

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

About this company

Dalkia Engineering deliver mechanical and electrical technical solutions across the UK’s built environment from initial design to project completion. Harnessing a value-engineering approach across our projects, we optimise your environment to deliver cost savings and carbon efficiency.

https://www.dalkia.co.uk (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a market-leading company pension scheme, 26 days paid holiday rising after service to 28 and a range of flexible benefits such as health cover, cycle to work scheme and a flexi holiday purchase scheme.

After this apprenticeship

Ongoing employment.
Further learning and development opportunities and continuous growth within the QSHE function.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

DALKIA ENGINEERING LIMITED

Dalkia Engineering Limited

recruitment.deng@dalkia.co.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000306788.

Apply now

Closes in 28 days (Monday 31 March at 11:59pm)

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