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
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.