Junior Quality Engineer Apprentice
Naim Audio
Wiltshire (SP1 2LN)
Closes in 13 days (Thursday 20 August 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 6 August 2026
Contents
Summary
Join our Quality team as a Junior Quality Engineer Apprentice, developing the skills to inspect components, analyse quality data, investigate non-conformances and support continuous improvement. Working with engineering, production and suppliers, you will help ensure products meet the highest quality standards.
- Wage
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£24,000 a year
- Training course
- Quality practitioner (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, 7.5 hours per day, typically worked between the hours of 8.30am and 6.00pm.
A flexible approach is essential as you may be required to work outside of normal hours to achieve organisational goals.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 1 September 2026
- Duration
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1 year 8 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
Purpose of the role and key objectives:
- Support the QEHS Manager for delivering all aspects of the Quality Assurance function
- Work in a team environment with suppliers and Naim production to develop and implement best practices that emphasise defect prevention, reduction in variation and waste and provide for continuous improvements in meeting all Product requirements
- Collect root cause analysis data and provide corrective feedback to prevent line stops due to supply issues. Responsible for ensuring that the products produced meet quality standards required to minimise quality costs and maximise customer satisfaction, whilst ensuring that procedures and processes are adhered to
Main duties and responsibilities:
- Incoming inspection of key cosmetic and functional components to a high level of detail and accuracy
- Recording inspection results and analysing data to drive improvement activities
- Assist with first off sample approvals and control
- Manage material review board for non-conforming parts
- Work with Engineering (Design and Manufacturing Engineers) teams to define process parameters and criteria to ensure supplier process capability is effective to meet product and process requirements
- Resolve non-conformance issues with supplied materials and follow up with suppliers for completion of corrective actions
- Develop standards and requirements for purchased components
- Support new product launches, ensuring compliance with established standards
- Coordinate with purchasing department to provide data to monitor supplier performance, generating reports where appropriate and administering corrective actions as necessary
- Internal auditing of processes for quality improvement activities and monitoring
Where you'll work
Southampton Road
Salisbury
Wiltshire
SP1 2LN
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)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
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
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 Grade 4 / C or above)
- Maths (grade Grade 4 / C or above)
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
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
Other requirements
- To give yourself the best chance, please ensure your application is genuine and written in your own words. Applications created solely with AI tools may not be accepted
- You must have been a UK resident for a minimum of 3 years to be eligible for apprenticeship funding
About this employer
Naim founder, Julian Vereker MBE (1945-2000), was a racing car driver, entrepreneur and self-taught engineer with a deep passion for music. Spending his spare time listening to and recording his friends playing live in the 1960s, Julian found that playback on his system at home fell woefully short of the experience he craved.
Not content with second best, he decided to design his own amplifiers and loudspeakers, ignoring accepted wisdom and focusing on aspects of performance that made music burst to life. These first designs laid the foundations for a range of iconic and award-winning hi-fi products that would reach well into the next century.
Every Naim product is conceived, designed, and engineered entirely in service of the sound, revealing a pure experience of music that is as close as possible to its original source. We believe that the exploration of sound is an adventure that rewards you with a clarity and connection that becomes more powerful the deeper you travel within it. Which is why, every element within our systems is crafted to create a silence around the sound, reducing any interference between you and the music.
https://www.naimaudio.com/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
- 24 days holiday, plus bank holidays - increasing with length of service
- Use of (free) canteen
- Free parking available on-site
- Enhanced employer pension contribution (4% of gross salary)
- Death in Service insurance
- Employee discount on Naim products
- Wellbeing initiatives, including an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), and discounted memberships at select local gyms
- Training and development opportunities
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
- Junior quality engineer, with possible scope to progress to a quality engineer role in the future
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
CSR SCIENTIFIC TRAINING LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000046694.
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Closes in 13 days (Thursday 20 August 2026 at 11:59pm)