Ref: QP4 Apprentice Quality & Compliance Engineer

DIODES ZETEX SEMICONDUCTORS LIMITED

Oldham, OL9 9LL

Closes in 24 days (Wednesday 19 March at 11:59pm)

Posted on 19 February 2025


Summary

The purpose of the role is to support the activities of the Quality and Compliance functions to ensure all expectations are being fulfilled.

Training course
Quality practitioner (level 4)
Hours
Monday to Friday—8.15am-4.30pm.

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Possible start date

Tuesday 1 April

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

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

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

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

  • L4 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.

https://www.diodes.com/ (opens in new tab)

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 VAC1000304962.

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Closes in 24 days (Wednesday 19 March at 11:59pm)

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