Quality Assurance Apprentice
OXITEC LTD
ABINGDON (OX14 4RQ)
Closes in 17 days (Friday 7 November 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 20 October 2025
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Summary
Kickstart your career in quality with Oxitec as a Quality Assurance Apprentice. Gain hands-on experience in biotech while completing a Level 4 Quality Practitioner Apprenticeship. Join a passionate team and contribute to impactful, sustainable innovation.
- Wage
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£25,662 a year
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Annual bonus of up to 10% of salary
- Training course
- Quality practitioner (level 4)
- Hours
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Your normal working day will be seven hours and thirty minutes (7.5 hours) Monday to Friday with your start and finish times between 07:00 and 19:00 which will be mutually agreed with your manager.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 27 January 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
Your daily duties will include:
- Supporting internal audits and inspections to ensure compliance with ISO 9001, GMP, and GLP standards
- Assisting in the creation and review of standard operating procedures and work instructions
- Recording and maintaining accurate documentation of lab processes and quality data
- Participating in root cause analysis and continuous improvement projects
- Managing the QA inbox and directing queries to relevant experts
- Collaborating with teams across the business to uphold quality standards
Where you'll work
71A-71E INNOVATION DRIVE
MILTON PARK
MILTON
ABINGDON
OX14 4RQ
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
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.
Training will take place both on the job at Oxitec’s Oxford site and through CSR Scientific Training.
Apprenticeship learning will be spread across the working week, with regular check-ins and support from the QA Manager.
Requirements
Essential 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
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
Other requirements
Skills, Experience, and Education Requirements *(E) Essential • Fluent in spoken and written English. (E) • Previous experience of working in Quality Assurance. • Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build and develop relationships at all levels of the business. (E) • Demonstrate ability to communicate with a wide variety of stakeholders. • Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to deliver findings clearly. (E) • Some technical writing experience preferred - attention to detail with the ability to accurately record data and prepare concise and clear procedures. (E) • Excellent organisational, timekeeping and responsiveness to QA matters and queries. (E) • Excellent attention to detail. (E) • Demonstrate flexibility with the ability to adapt to changing situations. • Ability to work independently and as a strong team player. [E] • Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint. Behavioural Requirements • Committed to and passionate about Oxitec’s mission and values. • Responsive to the needs of an international business working across different time zones, adapting working patterns in-line with business requirements. • Positive, humble, co-operative, and professional always. • Work with a sense of urgency and solve things promptly. • Resilient and persistent in an innovative and constantly changing environment. ****To give yourself the best chance, please ensure your application is genuine and written in your own words. Applications created with AI tools will not be accepted.****
About this employer
We are a team of passionate individuals, developing ground-breaking biological technologies designed to sustainably, and safely control pests that transmit disease, destroy crops and harm livestock. We do this work to improve lives and livelihoods around the world in the face of the growing threats that pests pose to human health and the global food supply. Whilst what we do relates to developing pest control technologies, Oxitec is about people and is in service to people.
After this apprenticeship
Continued progression in the Quality Team at Oxitec.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
CSR SCIENTIFIC TRAINING LIMITED
People_UK@oxitec.com
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000347388.
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