Quality Assurance Apprentice

Siemens Healthcare Limited

Sudbury (CO10 2XQ)

Closes in 21 days (Sunday 11 May 2025)

Posted on 7 April 2025

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Summary

As a Quality Assurance Apprentice at Siemens Healthineers you will have the opportunity to gain valuable experience in one of the world's leading healthcare companies, alongside gaining a Level 4 qualification as an Improvement Practitioner, providing you with transferrable skills and a recognised qualification.

Wage

£23,600 a year

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Training course
Improvement practitioner (level 4)
Hours
Monday - Friday, Shifts to be confirmed.

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Monday 1 September 2025

Duration

2 years

Positions available

2

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

  • You will provide Quality support to the Manufacturing Operations and Quality Teams
  • You will learn and understand correct documentation control processes and procedures
  • You will gain a broad range of essential skills and knowledge including how to lead a meeting and manage a project           
  • You will learn and understand International Quality Standards and how they are applied to the organisation
  • You will administer & support the quality processes to ensure timely and accurate completion. This will include the deviation and CAPA (corrective and preventative actions) processes
  • You will prepare for supplier, customer, regulatory & notified body audits as required
  • During this 24 month apprenticeship you will also complete learning modules and projects, and work towards achieving a Level 4 Improvement Practitioner qualification, building a portfolio of work to support your final end point assessment whilst guided by your line manager and our apprenticeship manager

Where you’ll work

Northern Road
Chilton Industrial Estate
Sudbury
CO10 2XQ

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

College or training organisation

WEST SUFFOLK COLLEGE

Your training course

Improvement practitioner (level 4)

Equal to higher national certificate (HNC)

Course contents
  • Compliance: Work in accordance with organisational controls and statutory regulations
  • Communication: Speak and write clearly. Influence others, question effectively. Plan and deliver meetings presenting insight to engage audiences
  • Coaching: Observe, listen, use questioning, provide feedback and spot learning opportunities
  • Project management: Define, sequence, plan and schedule activities with phases and milestones. Estimate effort and duration. Create and update project charter. Review progress
  • Change management: Sponsorship contract, surface and manage resistance, build compelling narratives for change, assess change impact
  • Principals and Methods: Select and apply a structured method and appropriate improvement tools engaging with subject matter experts to deliver business benefits
  • Project selection and Scoping: Support the identification of improvement opportunity and the scoping of these projects
  • Problem definition: Support development of problem/opportunity statements
  • Voice of the customer: Support application of techniques to identify and prioritise customers, their requirements and ensure balance against the stated and unstated needs of the business (Voice of the Business)
  • Process mapping & analysis: Process map to measure and analyse flow and value. Identify interfaces, functional responsibilities and ownership. Use insight to identify potential opportunities and map future state
  • Lean tools: Seek in-process waste through understanding of value within the value stream
  • Measurements systems: Plan, carry out and assess results of a measurement system study
  • Data acquisition for analysis: Develop a sampling strategy
  • Basic statistics & measures: Use graphical analysis to understand distribution and stability
  • Data analysis-statistical methods: Identify data-types and select analysis methods and tools. Assess time series data stability and analyse making relevant insight
  • Process capability & performance: Select methods and metrics for analysis
  • Root cause analysis: Select and apply the appropriate graphical tool dependent on the data type to identify patterns, trends and signals to establish hypothesis
  • Experimentation & optimisation: Plan designed experiment with clear objectives, and appropriate levels of Measurement Systems Analysis, analyse experiment data and optimise
  • Identification & prioritisation: Identify and prioritise factors, ideas and solutions
  • Data analysis – SPC: Select and apply appropriate tools for ongoing monitoring and control. Analyse and interpret control charts
  • Benchmarking: Conduct structured benchmarking to support target setting
  • Sustainability & control: Identify failure modes and embed learning from improvements

Your training plan

  • Improvement Practitioner Level 4 Apprenticeship Standard
  • The training will be a combination of college and on site on-the-job learning

Requirements

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
  • Team working
  • Initiative

About this company

Our technology empowers customers to transform the industries that form the backbone of economies: industry, transportation, buildings and grids. Our solutions accelerate the digital transformation of multiple industries, to scale sustainability impact.

http://www.siemens-healthineers.com (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

We offer 26 days holiday, 2 paid volunteering days per year, a flexible benefits scheme including private medical insurance, up to 10% employer pension contribution, a share and bonus scheme, and support from our 24/7 employee assistance programme.

Disability Confident

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

  • Depending on business requirements and the performance of the individual, there may be opportunities to progress further qualifications and beyond, including Higher Education

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

WEST SUFFOLK COLLEGE

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000314176.

Apply now

Closes in 21 days (Sunday 11 May 2025)

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Company’s application instructions

Please apply directly via the Siemens Healthineers website.