Quality Practitioner Level 4 apprenticeship
Welbilt Ltd Halesowen
Halesowen (B62 8SE)
Closes in 27 days (Monday 8 September 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 11 August 2025
Contents
Summary
You will support the Quality team, gaining hands-on experience in quality assurance and control within a dynamic manufacturing environment. You will contribute to ensuring our products consistently meet customer expectations and regulatory standards and support our continuous improvement initiatives.
- Wage
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£20,280 a year
- Training course
- Quality practitioner (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday - Thursday, 8.00am- 5.00pm. Friday, 8.00am - 1.00pm.
39 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 15 September 2025
- 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 the development, maintenance and improvement of the Quality Management System
- Create and update quality documentation to support operational excellence
- Participate in internal audits to ensure compliance with QMS standards
- Support external audits conducted by customers or certification bodies
- Perform inspection, measurements and verification tasks on products and processes
- Conduct in-house calibrations and maintain the calibration register
- Assist in root cause analysis and problem - solving activities
- Collect, analyse and report on quality-related data
- Help manage and resolve non-conformances effectively
Where you'll work
Units 7-13
Chancel Way
Halesowen Industrial Estate
Halesowen
B62 8SE
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
IN-COMM TRAINING AND BUSINESS SERVICES 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
This is a level 4 Quality Practitioner apprenticeship delivered over a period of 21-months.
The apprentice would be required to attend the training centre for a one-week block, followed by 7 x 1 day per week workshops at the training centre and attending meetings with an assessor, at the company, one day per month.
The training provider is In-Comm Training Services. You will attend the Aldridge WS9 8UG site.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
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
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Interaction with others
- Proactive work ethic
- Desire to learn new skills
- Self motivated and driven
- Keen to learn and develop
- Detail orientated
- Resilient
Other requirements
Physical fitness is important for this type of role.
About this employer
Welbilt (Halesowen) Ltd - Multiplex UK is one of Europe’s leading manufacturers and suppliers of cooling and dispense equipment to the beverage industry. Our unrivalled knowledge has been gained by serving customers internationally for over 40 years, in over 50 countries. Our efforts are coordinated from our headquarters in Halesowen, West Midlands, with a network of distributors throughout Europe to support us. We are committed to research and development within our manufacturing facility so we are continually able to offer our customers sustainable, reliable technology in our product lines. As a result of this, we offer the market a wide range of products and services, always aiming to exceed our customers' changing expectations. At Multiplex UK, we work in partnership with our customers to ensure we fully understand their needs, so they can deliver even more flexible solutions to theirs. Our key focus is on soft drink and beer cooling, as well as beverage dispense. We have a comprehensive range of coolers and dispense units to suit any application within the pub and chain restaurant environment. We also supply an extensive range of spares and accessories to all major soft drinks and brewing companies.
After this apprenticeship
A full-time role as a quality practitioner within the company.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
IN-COMM TRAINING AND BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED
Keira Stead
keiras@in-comm.co.uk
01922 457686
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000336486.
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Closes in 27 days (Monday 8 September 2025 at 11:59pm)
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