Quality Assurance Apprenticeship
YARA UK LIMITED
York (YO24 1NR)
Closes in 7 days (Friday 16 January 2026)
Posted on 7 January 2026
Contents
Summary
Reporting to the Quality Control Manager, the main responsibilities will be initially in a supporting role, with a development plan to own & lead over the coming 2 year course. Initially based in Pocklington, then will move to Howden in summer 2026.
- Wage
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£23,100 a year
- Training course
- Quality practitioner (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday
Shifts to be confirmed
38 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 2 February 2026
- Duration
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1 year 2 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
- Assist in issues relating to, quality incidents, non-conformances
- Support in the production of KPIs on Quality assurance processes including Quality incidents , non-conformances, and customer complaints and monitoring these in the electronic log
- Help maintain the QC departments documentation system and records in accordance with all appropriate regulatory requirements
- Develop towards being the first point of contact in relation to requests from the regulatory affairs department
- Provide quality support to the plant operations, as necessary
- Support the plant trials procedure in relation to quality assurance
- Assist in the process for third party analysis samples as per individual markets and regulatory requirements
- Support to produce appropriate certification in relation to the registration and importation purposes for YaraVita and YaraAmplix tested product where required
- Ensuring all associated paperwork is completed properly, accurately and on time
Where you'll work
Pocklington Industrial Estate,
Pocklington
York
YO24 1NR
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
QUALITRAIN LIMITED
Training course
Quality practitioner (level 4)
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What you'll learn
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.
Training schedule
- Training is run online with our training provider, the training and coaching sessions will be delivered 1 day per fortnight throughout the training course
- You will access the training at work on your work laptop
More training information
- Certification through the Chartered Quality Institute is provided upon completion of the apprenticeship
- Qualitrain are specialists in Quality and Improvements with apprentices across many industrial sectors and regions
- The training follows the 12 Duties of a Quality Practitioner and provide a great understanding of all aspects of a Quality Management System
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade C or 4 or above)
- Maths (grade C or 4 or above)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Work to deadlines
About this employer
We are part of the global company Yara International ASA and are a leader in the product development, manufacture and marketing of speciality nutrients & biostimulant products for use in regenerative agriculture worldwide.
At Yara, we will do everything in our power to lead a food system transformation through Climate neutrality, Regenerative agriculture and Prosperity
www.yara.com/this-is-yara/yara-at-a-glance/
https://www.yara.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
- Private Health
- 10% employer Pension Contributions
- Annual bonus scheme
- Confidential Employee Assistance Programme
- Inclusion & Wellbeing Activities (including football & badminton)
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
- On completion we would look to the successful candiate progressing to become the QA Lead Technician
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
QUALITRAIN LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000007377.
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Closes in 7 days (Friday 16 January 2026)
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