Quality Engineering Apprentice
Brockmoor Foundry co Ltd
Brierley Hill (DY5 3UJ)
Closes in 9 days (Monday 16 June 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 29 May 2025
Contents
Summary
To provide shop floor quality and technical support to ensure the smooth running of the machine shop. Ensure that daily quality objectives are achieved and help to work towards a zero defect process.
- Wage
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£15,311.40 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Engineering and manufacturing support technician (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Thursday
08:00 - 16:30
Friday
08:00 - 15:00.
39 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 September 2025
- Duration
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3 years 6 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
- Evaluate process rejects on a daily basis and provide scrap report if required
- Retrieving and setting gauges for shop floor processes in a timely manner
- Ensuring that gauging is released for external calibration on a weekly basis and ensuring that the general calibration status is in control
- Ensuring that the shop floor has correct inspection records available
- Providing PDI support to ensure parts are passed off in a timely manner for required sales
- Performing daily process audits against the provided checklist to identify non-compliance and communicate remedial action items accordingly
- Assist containment actions to check parts for dimensional failures and perform visual inspections
- Using a variety of measurement devices to evaluate in-process machined castings to determine conformance (verniers, bore gauges, micrometres etc.)
- Providing support within more junior roles as and when required.
- Assist with running CMM programs to perform daily checks of the parts
The above does not expressly define the full extent of the role – we reserve the right to expect any other reasonable task to be undertaken.
Where you'll work
Leys Road
Brierley Hill
DY5 3UJ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
DUDLEY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY
Your training course
Engineering and manufacturing support technician (level 3)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
What you'll learn
Course contents
- Follow health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Follow procedures in line with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. For example, segregation of resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
- Comply with engineering standards and regulations. For example, British Standards (BS), International Organisation for Standardisation standards (ISO). European Norm (EN).
- Analyse engineering and manufacturing data and information to support technical outputs. For example, read and interpret text, data, engineering drawings, work instructions, method statements, operation manuals.
- Apply scientific, technical or engineering principles.
- Apply problem solving techniques to solutions for identified technical problems.
- Organise, plan and prioritise workflow and scheduling of work with stakeholders.
- Identify, organise and use resources to complete tasks, considering cost, quality, safety, security and environmental impact.
- Produce job specific technical outputs. For example, engineering drawings, quality control management, computer control programming, business improvement, adverse incident reports, technical investigations, equipment appraisals and specifications.
- Provide support and guidance for handover of work to stakeholders. For example, checklists, product or process status, access to supporting documents.
- Record information - paper based or electronic. For example, energy usage, equipment service records, test results, handover documents, checklists.
- Follow standard operating procedures.
- Follow manufacturer's instructions. For example, safe instructions for use of products, processes and machinery.
- Apply quality assurance and control principles and practices. For example, conduct physical checks, take samples, inspections or tests.
- Apply continuous improvement techniques.
- Apply team working principles.
- Communicate in writing with others for example, stakeholders, colleagues, and managers.
- Communicate with others verbally for example, colleagues and stakeholders.
- Use information and digital technology. Comply with GDPR and cyber security regulations and policies.
- Carry out and record learning and development activities.
- Apply equity, diversity and inclusion procedures.
- Follow health and safety regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Follow procedures in line with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. For example, segregation of resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
- Comply with engineering standards and regulations. For example, British Standards (BS), International Organisation for Standardisation standards (ISO). European Norm (EN).
- Analyse engineering and manufacturing data and information to support technical outputs. For example, read and interpret text, data, engineering drawings, work instructions, method statements, operation manuals.
- Apply scientific, technical or engineering principles.
- Apply problem solving techniques to solutions for identified technical problems.
- Organise, plan and prioritise workflow and scheduling of work with stakeholders.
- Identify, organise and use resources to complete tasks, considering cost, quality, safety, security and environmental impact.
- Produce job specific technical outputs. For example, engineering drawings, quality control management, computer control programming, business improvement, adverse incident reports, technical investigations, equipment appraisals and specifications.
- Provide support and guidance for handover of work to stakeholders. For example, checklists, product or process status, access to supporting documents.
- Record information - paper based or electronic. For example, energy usage, equipment service records, test results, handover documents, checklists.
- Follow standard operating procedures.
- Follow manufacturer's instructions. For example, safe instructions for use of products, processes and machinery.
- Apply quality assurance and control principles and practices. For example, conduct physical checks, take samples, inspections or tests.
- Apply continuous improvement techniques.
- Apply team working principles.
- Communicate in writing with others for example, stakeholders, colleagues, and managers.
- Communicate with others verbally for example, colleagues and stakeholders.
- Use information and digital technology. Comply with GDPR and cyber security regulations and policies.
- Carry out and record learning and development activities.
- Apply equity, diversity and inclusion procedures.
Your training plan
- You will be required to attend Advance 1 Campus, Dudley College, 2 days in year 1, 1 day thereafter, term time only
- You will be assigned an assessor who visits you in the workplace every 8 weeks to support you on your apprenticeship
- Upon successful completion of your apprenticeship, you will gain a Level 3 Engineering and Manufacturing Support Technician qualification
More training information
- Coordinate Measuring Machine operator
- Manual inspection equipment, surface finish and surface profile testing
- Basic internal quality training (gd&t, qms)
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade C/4/Level 2 Functional Skills)
- Maths (grade C/4/Level 2 Functional Skills)
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
- Attention to detail
- Motivated
- Meet targets
- Willing to learn
- Drive for improvement
- Meet deadlines
About this company
The Brockmoor Foundry is a long established foundry whose core competency is the manufacture of ductile (spherodial graphite) iron. We manufacture a broad range of metal grades from 400/15 through to 800/2 across a diverse product range. As part of our ongoing commitment to providing a vertically integrated supply solution, we offer a wide range of additional, high precision services including machining, painting and assembly ensuring our role in the supply chain is all encompassing and lean and meets the expectations of an increasingly demanding market place. Our enviable customer portfolio (including several global market leaders in Commercial Vehicles, Hydraulics and Off Highway) demands that we embrace a long term commitment to collaboration and product optimisation whether through Cad support, Solidification analysis or our several years of experience. This same commitment is applied throughout our customer base with large and small accounts alike.
https://www.brockmoor.co.uk/ductile/about-us.html (opens in new tab)
After this apprenticeship
A career as a Quality Inspector, Quality Technician or Quality Engineer.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
DUDLEY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY
Chloe Powell
Chloe.Powell@dudleycol.ac.uk
01384363158
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000323228.
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Closes in 9 days (Monday 16 June 2025 at 11:59pm)
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