Ref: QP4 Apprentice Quality & Compliance Engineer
DIODES ZETEX SEMICONDUCTORS LIMITED
Oldham (OL9 9LL)
Closes in 9 days (Wednesday 30 April 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 27 March 2025
Contents
Summary
The purpose of the role is to support the activities of the Quality and Compliance functions to ensure all expectations are being fulfilled.
- Wage
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£14,918.80 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Quality practitioner (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday
8.15am- 4.30pm
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Saturday 10 May 2025
- Duration
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1 year 8 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you’ll do at work
Key Responsibility Areas
- Responding to customer enquiries in a timely manner
- Updating records of completed enquiries
- Managing external analysis reports
- Interfacing with staff across the business to understand customer requirements
- Keeping abreast with current legislation and Customer requirements
- Liaising with other Diodes sites, Subcontractors and Suppliers to distribute customer requirements and to understand methods and materials use
- Reporting compliance status to Senior management
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Self-motivation with a positive attitude to work
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- High levels of self-motivation and flexibility
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Ability to develop strong relationships
- Highly organized approach, accurate with a high level of attention to detail
- Ability to work under pressure
- Analytical skills
- Competent PC skills
Where you’ll work
Zetex Technology Park
Chadderton
Oldham
OL9 9LL
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
RUNSHAW COLLEGE
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
Towards the final few months of the apprenticeship, you will complete your End Point Assessment. This includes the following assessments:
Assessment method 1: Work based project with presentation and questions and answers
Assessment method 2: Professional discussion underpinned by a portfolio of evidence
More training information
- Level 4 Quality practitioner Apprenticeship Standard
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- 5 which must include GCSE English & Maths (grade A*-C / 9-4)
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
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Administrative skills
- Team working
About this company
A global manufacturer and supplier of application specific standard products. Diodes serves the consumer electronics, computing, communications, industrial and automotive markets. Headcount globally is 8600, in Chadderton its 370.
After this apprenticeship
- Future progression into further education, specific to role and career progression
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
RUNSHAW COLLEGE
Charlotte Ward
ward.c@runshaw.ac.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000312369.
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Closes in 9 days (Wednesday 30 April 2025 at 11:59pm)
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