Quality Assurance Apprentice

Summary

We are looking for a Quality Assurance Apprentice this year because we recognise the importance of developing young people that will be the leaders of the future. We have a team of highly skilled people that you will work alongside in your day-to-day role, as well as across the business.

Wage

£32,625 a year

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Pay will increase to the next grade in year 2 of your apprenticeship. Our non-executive pay follows a unionised grading structure. This means that the value of each grade increases each year, in agreement between the company and union members.

Training course

Quality practitioner (level 4)

Hours

37.5 hours per week on a flexible basis although you must be at work during the following core times: Monday to Thursday 09:30 to 12:00 and 14:00 to 15:00 Friday 09:30 to 13:00 Breaks - Daily 1 X 30-minute unpaid break (minimum)

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Tuesday 9 September 2025

Duration

1 year 8 months

Positions available

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

As a Quality Assurance Apprentice, you will learn a range of skills from a variety of tasks, developing skills and knowledge that will be useful to any future career! You will not only develop strong technical and legal compliance knowledge, but you will develop strong soft skills, such as communication from working with people across the business, from Stores to Assembly to Sales.

Your daily duties will include:

Promotion of ‘Total Quality’ ethos and quality improvements within all aspects of the business
Acting as the voice of the customer to ensure process owners are responsible for their quality performance
Implement actions that reduce the impact of poor quality
Support all departments re-continuous development
Investigation of internal manufacturing/assembly non-conformances using 8D
Facilitation of daily non-conformance review meetings
Resolution of customer complaints
Supplier approvals/auditing/support including supplier visits as required
Consideration of deviations and issuing of concessions
Assessment of measurement systems (Gauge R&R)
Component failure investigations including measurements
Creation, coordination and review of inspection reports
Support of the organisation’s IMS ISO 9001/14001 and 45001 certifications
Internal auditing of IMS
Support the management of departmental objectives to support business goals
Proactively improve internal systems through enterprise change management
Any other reasonable and relevant duties as requested by the Quality Systems Lead

Where you'll work

Dockfield Road
Shipley
Bradford
BD17 7AY

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

College or training organisation

CSR SCIENTIFIC TRAINING LIMITED

Your 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.

Your training plan

You will undertake a Level 4 Quality Practitioner Apprenticeship with an Ofsted rated Outstanding training provider, CSR Scientific Training, which will include:

Fully recognised apprenticeship qualification - Level 4 Quality Practitioner
On-the-job competency training
Monthly online lectures
A 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. CSR are an approved provider and when you enrol onto this apprenticeship, you are entitled to 50% discount off Student membership for the first 2 years with the CQI.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English (grade C/5 or above)
Maths (grade C/5 or above)

Other in:

Engineering Manufacture or similar discipline (grade Pass or equivalent)

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
Customer care skills
Problem solving skills
Presentation skills
Administrative skills
Number skills
Analytical skills
Logical
Team working
Initiative

Other requirements

Some supplier visits may be required that may include an overnight stay as well as time at our assembly factory in Wortley, Leeds.

About this company

At CarnuadMetalbox Engineering (CMbE), we design, develop and manufacture high-performance metal forming and finishing machinery to produce beverage, food and aerosol cans. We supply precision-engineered canmaking machinery to a global market. All manufactured at our headquarters in Shipley & Leeds! We are a global business and one of the leading Canmaking machinery manufacturers worldwide. We have over 4,500 operational machines worldwide, over 90 years of experience and have won 4 Queens awards! Our Quality Assurance Engineers are crucial for ensuring our machines remain the best in class, by ensuring compliance to company processes and whilst maintaining compliance with existing Quality, Health and Safety and Environmental certifications. Quality assurance is key for driving continuous improvement.

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Company benefits

Some key benefits are: • Non-contractual bonus, subject to targets being met • Competitive non-contractual life assurance scheme • Westfield health membership • Competitive pension scheme • Employee of the month • Staff council

After this apprenticeship

Following the Level 4 the apprentice would progress to a Junior QA Engineer. With further experience the role develops into a QA Engineer.

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