Quality Practitioner Apprenticeship

SPS AEROSTRUCTURES LIMITED

Annesley (NG15 0DP)

Closes in 22 days (Friday 4 April at 11:59pm)

Posted on 11 March 2025


Summary

This role will be paid in line with government apprentice rates Free on site parking Global organisation Individuals will be responsible for providing Quality duties within the following key areas: • Support Senior Quality Practitioner and Leaders to formulate Quality Strategy • Support in developing Quality Policies Solving Quality problems

Training course
Quality practitioner (level 4)
Hours
Monday to Thursday 8.00am - 5.00pm. Fridays 8.00am - 1.00pm.

39 hours a week

Possible start date

Monday 5 May

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

  • Guide and support others to improve quality performance
  • Plan and conduct audits
  • Develop quality llans
  • Develop new solutions to existing quality concerns
  • Ensure manufacturing processes, procedures, engineering specs and workflows are adequate to define quality requirements
  • Provide support to shop floor to resolve quality issues and support problem solving investigations
  • Defining and creating standard operating procedures and visual aids to address quality concerns/reduce risk
  • Support quality metric report outs

Where you’ll work

Willow Drive Sherwood Business Park
Annesley
NG15 0DP

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

QUALITRAIN 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

  • Training will be on site and potentially 1 day at colleage within the Nottinghamshire area

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade 2)
  • Maths (grade 2)

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
  • Initiative

About this company

PCC Aerostructures UK (SPS) is a strong engineering business with a formidable record in the production of precision-machined fabrications and assemblies for civil aircraft and forms part of Global US company Precision Castparts Corp.

Company benefits

23 days annual leave. Free on site parking.

After this apprenticeship

  • Quality Engineer 
  • Project Quality Engineer 
  • Quality Assurance Officer

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

SPS AEROSTRUCTURES LIMITED

Jas Sanghera

jas.sanghera@pccairframe.com

07779019586

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000308841.

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Closes in 22 days (Friday 4 April at 11:59pm)

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