Quality Technician Apprentice
MARCEGAGLIA (UK) LIMITED
Dudley (DY2 8TA)
Closes in 8 days (Wednesday 17 September 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 9 September 2025
Contents
Summary
Join our Quality Team as a Quality Technician Apprentice and train while you work towards a Level 3 Engineering & Manufacturing Support Technician qualification. You’ll gain hands-on experience in quality inspection, auditing, and problem-solving, helping ensure our products meet the highest standards.
- Wage
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£14,722.50 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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Hours - Monday - Friday 8-hours per day including 30-minute break, exact working hours TBC. 23-days holiday & 8-public holidays. Death in Service. Company Pension Scheme. Medicash - Health cash plan
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 22 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
Job Purpose:
- As a Quality Technician Apprentice, you will gain practical experience and training in maintaining and improving the company’s Quality Management System (ISO 9001)
- You will support the Quality Department in ensuring products meet required standards and learn how to carry out quality inspections, audits, and investigations
Key Responsibilities:
- Assist in maintaining the company’s Quality Management System
- Support daily quality checks and inspections
- Learn to investigate and report non-conformities
- Assist in reviewing raw material quality
- Help liaise with suppliers and customers under supervision
- Participate in internal audits and quality improvement initiatives
- Learn to apply quality tools and problem-solving methods
Skills and Attributes:
- Willingness to learn and develop technical and quality skills
- Good attention to detail and accuracy
- Ability to work in a team and follow instructions
- Good communication and organisational skills
- Interest in manufacturing, engineering, or quality systems
- Basic IT skills; willingness to learn SAP (if applicable)
- Ability to follow health and safety regulations
Where you'll work
Marcegaglia
New Road Netherton
Dudley
DY2 8TA
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
SANDWELL COLLEGE
Training course
Engineering and manufacturing support technician (level 3)
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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.
Training schedule
- Employer: Marcegaglia UK, Netherton
- College: MET Centre, Sandwell College, 404 High Street, West Bromwich, B70 9LB
- Apprenticeship Level: Level 3 Engineering and Manufacturing Support Technician
- Training Schedule: 4-days per week: On-the-job training at Marcegaglia
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
Desirable 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
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
About this employer
Marcegaglia UK is the largest precision tube manufacturer in Great Britain. It belongs to Marcegaglia, worldwide leading industrial group, with 7,800 employees, 36 plants across 4 continents, a turnover of 7.5 billion euros and 6.5 million tonnes of finished product.
After this apprenticeship
For the right candidate to progress as a full-time employee.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SANDWELL COLLEGE
apprentice@sandwell.ac.uk
0121 667 5018
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000341226.
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