QA Apprentice
VEETEE FOODS LIMITED
ROCHESTER (ME2 4DU)
Closes in 3 days (Monday 1 September 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 29 August 2025
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Summary
The main purpose of this role is to review the manufacturing process and products, plant hygiene, GMP and G&P and other internal verification as well as reviewing all raw materials and packing deliveries.
- Wage
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£14,722.50 to £23,809.50, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
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Night Shift Allowance is available for those working the night shift
- Training course
- Quality practitioner (level 4)
- Hours
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Shift pattern
Nights and Days
6pm - 6am or 6am - 6pm
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 29 September 2025
- Duration
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1 year 2 months
- Positions available
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2
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
- Regular checks on the process and packing lines to ensure that all products are being manufactured to the correct specification
- Regular checking of the packing lines and equipment to ensure it is working correctly and that items such as weigh checkers, metal detectors are working and are in calibration
- Ensuring that the date coding and labelling of finished goods are accurate, readable, and according to customer requirements
- Carrying out traceable tests
- Maintaining product samples of daily production and ensuring they are regularly checked for quality or defects
- Conducting test on raw materials and packaging quality
- Routine monitoring of process line e.g., metal detection, weight checks, product seals, bar codes checks and verification, best before end date, film alignment, glue traces, code positioning, case contents and case coding as relevant, taking immediate actions to remedy any deviation from specification and recording all tests in the Finished Product and Check Weigh Forms
- Ensuring all associated paperwork is completed properly, accurately and on time
- Ensuring production deadlines are met interms of line release post clean-downs, changeovers, etc.
- Assist the operations team on minimising wastage
- Ensuring the tidiness of the work area
- Help and assist in training others on the equipment once fully competent
- Assist in non-conformance investigations and resolutions as required
- Any other reasonable duties, responsibilities, or requests that may be issued by management from time to time
Where you'll work
VEETEE HOUSE
SIR THOMAS LONGLEY ROAD
MEDWAY CITY ESTATE
ROCHESTER
ME2 4DU
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
CSR SCIENTIFIC TRAINING 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
- Quality Practitioner Level 4
- Online Training
- Weekly teams call 10am - 12pm
- On-site computer to be used
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 9-4)
- Maths (grade 9-4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
About this employer
It’s our mission to turn rice doubters into believers. We’re raising the rice bar, because there’s so much more to experience than people realise. We’ve worked tirelessly for more than 30 years to find new ways to bring you the best home cooked rice. Rice that sings, rice that dances, rice that fuses texture and flavour together with every forkful.
https://www.veetee.com/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
Long Service Award (10 and 15 years) Private Healthcare Life cover insurance Refer a Friend Benefit Cycle to Work Scheme Grace & Green Supercups tea & coffee Holiday entitlement EV Scheme Rice sales Taste & Rate new products
After this apprenticeship
You are able to move into a full QA techinican role within the company.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
VEETEE FOODS LIMITED
Sophie Barnes
sbarnes@veete.com
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000339573.
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Closes in 3 days (Monday 1 September 2025 at 11:59pm)
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