Summary
The quality team provide functional expertise to influence and ensure a continuous improvement culture across the business. You will become a Quality specialist, whilst learning about the fundamentals of quality and compliance in a market leading technology business.
Wage
£19,000 a year
£19,000 - £23,000 depending on experience +annual increases aligned to performance +annual bonus +flex benefits package including a health cash plan
Training course
Quality practitioner (level 4)
Hours
Monday to Thursday, 8.30am to 5.15pm. Friday, 8.30am to 12.30pm.
37 hours a week
Possible start date
Monday 8 September
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
The quality team provide functional expertise to influence and ensure a continuous improvement culture across the business. We look after the management system which contains all controlled documents such as policies and procedures, and encourage a culture of continuous improvement. Your work could include the development of our management system and its documents, as well as strategic quality improvement projects to make better use of data for decision-making on quality and artificial intelligence or machine learning.
This apprenticeship will allow you to progress your education and become a quality specialist, whilst learning about the fundamentals of quality in a market leading technology business.
Day-to-day, you'll be:
* Growing skills and experience in all areas of responsibility of the global Quality organisation.
* Gaining familiarity with our Vacuum Technique Business Area, its structure, and its key products and customers.
* Gaining subject matter understanding of quality, reliability, compliance and engineering processes.
* Gaining subject matter understanding of environmental impact of our business, products and services and how we can reduce this impact in future.
* Developing skills to create and deliver controlled documents and training material.
* Gaining an understanding of change management methods used during a project.Developing proficiency in project management and time management skills.
* Developing a network of contacts within the Research and Development group and wider business.
* Experiencing working within a truly global multidisciplinary organisation.
* Contributing to our early careers outreach or marketing initiatives to develop essential workplace requirements including teamwork, planning and communication skills.
Where you’ll work
Innovation Drive
Burgess Hill
West Sussex
RH15 9TW
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
CSR SCIENTIFIC TRAINING 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
This training plan has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.
More training information
Through the training provider, CSR Scientific Training, you will undertake a Level 4 Quality Practitioner Apprenticeship which will include:
* Fully recognised apprenticeship qualification - Level 4 Quality Practitioner
* On-the-job competency training
* Monthly online lectures
* Continuous improvement project
This apprenticeship is professionally recognised by the Chartered Quality Institute (CQI) and successful completion of this programme provides opportunity for Practitioner registration with the CQI.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
* 3 more GCSEs (grade 4)
* English Language (grade 4)
* Maths (grade 4)
A Level in:
* 2 A-levels including Maths or a Science (grade C)
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
* Administrative skills
* Analytical skills
* Logical
* Team working
* Initiative
Other requirements
There will be an in-person selection day in Burgess Hill on Thursday 6th February 2025 so please bear this in mind when submitting an application. The vacancy will close early if we receive a high number of applications.