Quality Apprentice
EPWIN GROUP PLC
Tamworth (B79 7TF)
Closes in 26 days (Friday 15 May 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 16 April 2026
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Summary
SWISH, which is a part of the Epwin group are looking for an enthusiastic apprentice to join their quality team. As an apprentice, you will be responsible for promoting and implementing quality practice and governance across the organisation.
- Wage
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£16,830 a year
- Training course
- Quality practitioner (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, 9:00am - 5:00pm.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 1 September 2026
- Duration
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1 year 9 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
Daily/Weekly Tasks:
- Advocate for quality practice and governance across the organisation.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to plan and implement effective quality systems.
- Conduct internal meetings to review and report on quality performance.
- Gather, analyse, and interpret quality performance data.
- Carry out audits and inspections across products, processes, and systems.
- Support stakeholder visits, including customers, suppliers, and certification bodies.
- Promote continuous improvement initiatives across the business.
- Support and help develop individuals within and outside the Quality function.
- Perform measurement and analysis of products during production.
- Investigate quality issues in production and warehousing, including customer complaints.
- Conduct audits of management systems, product quality, safety, environment, and energy compliance.
- Investigate accidents, near misses, and workplace hazards.
- Develop and maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for quality-related activities.
- Create and communicate Quality Alerts when issues are identified.
- Apply knowledge of ISO management systems in quality processes.
- Participate in training related to Business Improvement Techniques, Quality, Health & Safety, and Environmental practices.
Where you'll work
Pioneer House
Lichfield Road
Tamworth
B79 7TF
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
IN-COMM TRAINING AND BUSINESS SERVICES 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
This is a level 4 Quality Practitioner apprenticeship delivered over a period of 21-months
The apprentice would be required to attend the training centre for a one-week block, followed by 7 x 1 day per week workshops at the training centre and attending meetings with an assessor, at the company, one day per month
The training provider is In-Comm Training Services. You will attend the Aldridge WS9 8UG site
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
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Interest in Engineering
- Driven
About this employer
Swish Building Products is probably the best-known UK manufacturer of roofline and cladding products. Many people still recognise the Swish name from the days when it was closely associated with curtain tracks and poles, but that was a long time ago, and today there is no connection between the two businesses.
Swish is now part of the Epwin Group of businesses that supplies fascias, cladding, windows doors, decking and many other low maintenance building products to the new build, social housing and domestic refurbishment markets.
Some of the other brands within the Epwin Group include Ecodek, DekBoard, Kayflow, Marbrex, Stormking and many more.
After this apprenticeship
Upon successful completion of the apprenticeship, a full-time position will be available at the company, within the quality team of SWISH as part of EPWIN Group.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
IN-COMM TRAINING AND BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED
Aimee Newman (In-Comm)
aimeen@in-comm.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000026860.
Apply now
Closes in 26 days (Friday 15 May 2026 at 11:59pm)