Quality Engineering Apprentice
Brockmoor Foundry co Ltd
Brierley Hill (DY5 3UJ)
Closes in 13 days (Friday 3 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 19 September 2025
Contents
Summary
Kickstart your career with our Engineering Manufacturing Technician Apprenticeship. Learn to support production, carry out quality checks, run inspections, and help improve processes, gaining hands-on experience for a future in modern engineering.
- Wage
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£14,722.50 to £23,809.50, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
- Training course
- Engineering and manufacturing support technician (level 3)
- Hours
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Working Hours:
Monday- Thursday
8:00am- 4:30pm
Friday
8:00am- 3:00pm
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 6 October 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
As a Quality Engineering Apprentice, you will support the engineering team in ensuring that manufactured components meet the highest standards. Your responsibilities will include:
- Evaluating process rejects on a daily basis and providing scrap reports if required
- Retrieving and setting gauging for shop floor processes in a timely manner
- Ensuring gauging is released for external calibration on a weekly basis and maintaining general calibration control
- Ensuring the shop floor has the correct inspection records available
- Providing PDI support to ensure parts are passed off in a timely manner for required sales
- Performing daily process audits against provided checklists to identify non-compliance and communicate remedial actions
- Assisting with containment actions to check parts for dimensional failures and perform visual inspections
- Using a variety of measurement devices (verniers, bore gauges, micrometers, etc.) to evaluate in-process machined castings
- Providing support within more junior roles as required
- Assisting with running CMM programs to perform daily checks of parts
- Assisting with running CNC machines to manufacture finished components
- The above does not expressly define the full extent of the role – other reasonable tasks may also be undertaken
Where you'll work
Leys Road
Brierley Hill
DY5 3UJ
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
Apprentices will:
- Provide technical support and expertise in engineering and manufacturing functions
- Interpret engineering data and documentation
- Organize workflows and coordinate services for stakeholders
Contribute to planning work and resources - Use technical software packages (e.g., CAD) to produce design solutions
- Inspect and test equipment or services and produce data from test results
- Write technical reports and carry out audits
- Support continuous improvement activities
- Work within health, safety, and environmental regulations
Course Modules:
- Engineering health and safety regulations and standards
- Engineering drawing and specifications
- Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
- Quality control and assurance
- CNC programming and robotics
- Additive manufacturing
- Process engineering
- Technical report writing and documentation
- Continuous improvement techniques
Assessment:
- On-programme assessment: Practical skills assessment, portfolio of evidence, employer and training provider reviews
- End Point Assessment (EPA): Practical assessment, professional discussion underpinned by a portfolio, and a multiple-choice knowledge test
- Apprentices receive regular support from workplace mentors, assessors, and college tutors throughout the programme
Enrichment Activities:
- Employer site visits and guest speakers from the industry
- Skills competitions (e.g., WorldSkills UK Engineering)
- Engineering and manufacturing project challenges
- Specialist workshops and equipment demonstrations
- Trips to industry expos and trade shows
- Progression Pathways:
- Higher Apprenticeship in Manufacturing Engineering
- HNC/HND in Mechanical or Manufacturing Engineering
- Degree Apprenticeship in Engineering
- Roles such as CAD Technician, Quality Control Specialist, CNC Programmer, or Process Engineer
- Team Leader or Engineering Supervisor positions
Facilities:
- Fully equipped machining workshops with CNC and manual machines
- Industry-standard CAD/CAM software
- Metrology and inspection equipment
- Dedicated engineering classrooms and IT suites
- Access to online learning resources and e-portfolios
Workplace:
On-the-job training at the apprentice’s employer location
College:
Training takes place once per week at:
Central St Michaels
Sandwell Science, Engineering & Manufacturing Centre
404 High Street
West Bromwich
B70 9LB
Training Frequency:
- College sessions: Once per week
- Workplace training: Ongoing daily, integrated with normal duties, supported by workplace mentors and assessors
- Regular review meetings and progress checks with college tutors and workplace supervisors to monitor development and progress
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
Desirable qualifications
Other 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
The Brockmoor Foundry is a long-established foundry whose core competency is the manufacture of ductile (spheroidal graphite) iron. We manufacture a broad range of metal grades from 400/15 through to 800/2 across a diverse product range. As part of our ongoing commitment to providing a vertically integrated supply solution, we offer a wide range of additional, high precision services including machining and assembly ensuring our role in the supply chain is all encompassing and lean and meets the expectations of an increasingly demanding marketplace. Our enviable customer portfolio (including several global market leaders in Commercial Vehicles, Hydraulics and Off Highway) demands that we embrace a long-term commitment to collaboration and product optimisation whether through Cad support, Solidification analysis or our several years of experience. This same commitment is applied throughout our customer base with large and small accounts alike.
After this apprenticeship
Progression Pathways:
- Higher Apprenticeship in Manufacturing Engineering
- Roles such as CAD Technician, Quality Control Specialist, CNC Programmer, or Process Engineer
- Team Leader or Engineering Supervisor positions
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 VAC1000343025.
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Closes in 13 days (Friday 3 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
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