Apprentice Quality Technician
Southbourne Rubber
WATERLOOVILLE (PO7 7XJ)
Closes in 11 days (Monday 3 November 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 17 October 2025
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Summary
To support the Quality Department in ensuring that products and processes meet required standards. The apprentice will gain hands-on experience in inspection, testing, reporting, and continuous improvement activities while working toward a nationally recognised qualification.
- Wage
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£18,500 a year
- Training course
- Quality practitioner (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday - Thursday - 8.30am - 5pm
Friday - 8.30am - 1pm
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 December 2025
- 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
- Inspect and test incoming components and finished products
- Assist in resolving quality issues with suppliers and internal teams
- Prepare performance data and quality reports
- Support first article inspections and qualification of parts/materials
- Participate in internal audits and compliance checks (e.g. AS9100 and other relevant standards)
- Maintain calibration and functionality of inspection equipment (e.g., CMM, spectrometer)
- Investigate customer complaints and document corrective/preventive actions
- Promote quality awareness and continuous improvement across the organisation
- Ensure proper handling of non-conforming materials
- Maintain high standards of housekeeping and safety in the quality area
- Attend and support the Quality and other Department Tier meetings
Where you'll work
47 ASTON ROAD
WATERLOOVILLE
PO7 7XJ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
HTP APPRENTICESHIP COLLEGE LTD
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.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4/C)
- Mathematics (grade 5/B)
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
- Analytical skills
About this employer
SBR (Southbourne Rubber) is a fast-growing company that specialises in production runs of specialist rubber components mainly O-Rings and Grommets aerospace and military applications using specialist rubber compounds. It has a Quality certification too; AS9100D and most importantly the extensive list of customer accreditations.
After this apprenticeship
This role will lead to a permanent position as a Quality Technician, if the training has been completed.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
Southbourne Rubber
Liam Bertram
lbertram@westgroup.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000346978.
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Closes in 11 days (Monday 3 November 2025 at 11:59pm)
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