Quality Administrator Apprentice
FERA SCIENCE LIMITED
York (YO41 1LZ)
Closes in 12 days (Tuesday 16 September 2025)
Posted on 3 September 2025
Contents
Summary
You’ll play a key role in supporting our ISO-accredited Scientific and Quality Teams, and assist with maintaining and managing quality documentation and records, while contributing to our continuous improvement initiatives. Throughout your apprenticeship, you’ll work closely with the Quality Team and the Quality & Continuous Improvement Manager.
- Wage
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£24,570 a year
- Training course
- Quality practitioner (level 4)
- Hours
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Working hours are 37.5 Monday to Friday. The flexi bandwidth is 7.00am to 7.00pm, subject to business need, or staff can work set start and finish times.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Wednesday 1 April 2026
- 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
- Provide high-quality support to the Quality Team and ISO-accredited Scientific Business Units, helping ensure standards are consistently met
- Respond to enquiries and help resolve issues, knowing when to escalate more complex queries to ensure a timely and effective service
- Take part in team meetings to learn how different departments work together and contribute to shared goals
- Support colleagues by covering tasks during absences, helping maintain smooth operations
- Maintain a professional, courteous, and helpful attitude when working with both colleagues and customers
- Study online with CSR Scientific Training, working towards a Level 4 Quality Practitioner qualification, gaining knowledge in quality planning, assurance, control, and continuous improvement
Where you'll work
York Biotech Campus
Sand Hutton
York
YO41 1LZ
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
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
More training information
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
A Level 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
- Team working
About this employer
Fera Science's origins in delivering world-class science began over 100 years ago as the Institute for Plant Pathology services. True to our heritage we are proud that our continued successes helps to address some of today’s biggest challenges, including coping with the impact of global population growth and the need to make efficient sustainable use of natural resources. Our innovations form the basis for sustainable and profitable business activity and are key to achieving leadership positions in all of our markets.
https://www.fera.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
25 days’ holiday (rising to 29) with the opportunity to buy & sell extra leave. Flexible working hours, on-site gym, restaurant, and free parking.
After this apprenticeship
We have a careers pathway structure in place, to provide clarity and transparency around all the roles and career progression criteria. The role being advertised sits within the Change Team and is a permanent position. Currently, role progression within the team will be dependent on vacancies that may arise, but in role development via our Fera Training Academy and development plans will be discussed as part of regular 1:1 performance reviews, in addition to the apprenticeship qualification.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
CSR SCIENTIFIC TRAINING LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000340271.
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Closes in 12 days (Tuesday 16 September 2025)
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