Apprentice - Quality Engineer (Level 4)
SIEMENS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
Congleton (CW12 1PH)
Closes in 13 days (Wednesday 14 May 2025)
Posted on 3 April 2025
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Summary
Join Siemens Congleton in our Supplier Quality Assurance team as an apprentice, the role will support the team in ensuring quality and resolving issues quickly by collaborating with suppliers, internal teams, and using IT platforms, while considering regulatory standards and sustainability.
- Wage
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£23,016 a year
- Training course
- Lead engineering maintenance technician (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, 08:30-16:30.
36 hours 15 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 September 2025
- Duration
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4 years
- 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
- Ensure the quality of delivered parts meets requirements and working with our suppliers to achieve complaint resolution
- Demonstrate a willingness to investigate and resolve issues quickly, working cross functionally to find short term and long-term solutions via the 4D/8D methodologies
- Build relationships with our internal customers and external suppliers, to ensure good communication
- Working closely with our internal and external warehouse teams to deliver quality capable product to our production areas
- Using the relevant IT platforms to examine stock in the event of quality issues to ensure suspect stock is identified, segregated, rejected and monitored
- Supporting the Factory Quality Engineers with any escalation topics that are supplier related
- Working with Material Control and Commercial teams when dealing with suspect/reject parts to ensure clarity of stock
- Recognise the factors influencing the performance of our products and services, including legislation, customer requirements, and regulatory standards. This includes sustainability and climate change considerations
- Understand how contractual and commercial requirements for quality impact our performance objectives for specific products and services
Where you’ll work
Siemens House
Varey Road, Eaton Bank Trading Estate
Congleton
CW12 1PH
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
JC TRAINING & CONSULTANCY LTD
Your training course
Lead engineering maintenance technician (level 4)
Equal to higher national certificate (HNC)
Course contents
- Comply with health and safety regulations and procedures. Apply safe systems of work.
- Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations and procedures when using resources. Segregate resources for re-use, recycling and disposal applying sustainability principles.
- Follow manufacturers’ instructions and standard maintenance procedures.
- Identify and document risks and hazards in the workplace. Advise on and apply control measures.
- Record or enter information - paper based or electronic. For example, job sheets, risk assessments, equipment service records, test results, handover documents and manufacturers' documentation, asset management records, work sheets, checklists, waste environmental records and any legal reporting requirements.
- Plan and schedule tasks, projects or resources in the workplace.
- Manage tasks, projects or resources in the workplace.
- Evaluate tasks, projects or resources in the workplace.
- Communicate with colleagues and stakeholders verbally.
- Communicate in writing.
- Negotiate with colleagues or stakeholders. For example, to access equipment or arrange system outage.
- Identify potential conflicts and apply resolution strategies.
- Identify training needs of team members in the workplace.
- Provide technical leadership for maintenance practices and techniques.
- Provide technical leadership for repair practices and techniques.
- Provide technical leadership for fault finding techniques and practices.
- Identify problems and apply methods to identify causes and solutions. Escalate issues or concerns.
- Comply with engineering standards and regulations. For example, ISO9001.
- Interpret and use information from engineering data sources to apply changes.
- Lead on continuous improvement projects. Apply continuous improvement techniques. Devise suggestions for improvement.
- Manage technical handover of completed repair or maintenance activity.
- Use information technology. For example, for document creation, communication, and information management in line with breakdown, repair and maintenance activities. Comply with GDPR.
- Comply with health and safety regulations and procedures. Apply safe systems of work.
- Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations and procedures when using resources. Segregate resources for re-use, recycling and disposal applying sustainability principles.
- Follow manufacturers’ instructions and standard maintenance procedures.
- Identify and document risks and hazards in the workplace. Advise on and apply control measures.
- Record or enter information - paper based or electronic. For example, job sheets, risk assessments, equipment service records, test results, handover documents and manufacturers' documentation, asset management records, work sheets, checklists, waste environmental records and any legal reporting requirements.
- Plan and schedule tasks, projects or resources in the workplace.
- Manage tasks, projects or resources in the workplace.
- Evaluate tasks, projects or resources in the workplace.
- Communicate with colleagues and stakeholders verbally.
- Communicate in writing.
- Negotiate with colleagues or stakeholders. For example, to access equipment or arrange system outage.
- Identify potential conflicts and apply resolution strategies.
- Identify training needs of team members in the workplace.
- Provide technical leadership for maintenance practices and techniques.
- Provide technical leadership for repair practices and techniques.
- Provide technical leadership for fault finding techniques and practices.
- Identify problems and apply methods to identify causes and solutions. Escalate issues or concerns.
- Comply with engineering standards and regulations. For example, ISO9001.
- Interpret and use information from engineering data sources to apply changes.
- Lead on continuous improvement projects. Apply continuous improvement techniques. Devise suggestions for improvement.
- Manage technical handover of completed repair or maintenance activity.
- Use information technology. For example, for document creation, communication, and information management in line with breakdown, repair and maintenance activities. Comply with GDPR.
Your training plan
Lead Engineering Maintenance Technician.
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
- Team working
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.
https://www.siemens.com/uk/en/company/about.html (opens in new tab)
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
Subject to a good training record, you will be made permanent in the supplier quality assurance team.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
JC TRAINING & CONSULTANCY LTD
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000313722.
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Closes in 13 days (Wednesday 14 May 2025)
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