Overview
Being a Quality Practitioner Apprentice is a varied and exciting career, with each day being different to the next; from facilitating risk prevention events, undertaking audits through to using innovative solutions to solve significant business problems and drive continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
* 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 tools such as Measurement Systems Analysis.
* Identify requirements from technical documents, commercial input or stakeholder statements and convert them to definitions that can drive the organisation\'s 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 internal and external stakeholders and their current and optimal positions (such as hostile, helpful, opposed, uncooperative, indifferent, hesitant, enthusiastic support) required to support quality related activities.
* Following completion of your apprenticeship and subject to business need and your career aspirations, you will outturn into a Quality Engineer role within one of the areas of AWE. Through a series of placements within the Quality function, you will gain experience of the management and review of the company\'s processes and procedures and their use.
* Using this experience, you will ensure we fulfil our contractual and regulatory requirements of our customers and stakeholders through quality planning, quality assurance, quality control and continuous improvement activities. In addition to the vocational aspects of your training, we will further your knowledge of Quality through academic studies. On successful completion of the Level 4 Quality Practitioner apprenticeship, you will be eligible for professional registration to the Chartered Quality Institute (CQI) at practitioner grade.
Qualifications and Skills
* GCSE in: 5 including English and Maths (grade 4 or above)
* A Level in: Any (grade C or above)
* Communication skills
* IT skills
* Attention to detail
* Organisation skills
* Problem solving skills
* Number skills
* Analytical skills
* Logical
* Team working
* Initiative
* Patience
Salary, Hours and Benefits
* Wage: £23,500 a year with potential progression to £25,000 in Year 2 and annually thereafter, subject to milestones and performance expectations.
* Hours: 9 day fortnight (33 hrs in the short week; 41 hrs in the long week). Start date Tuesday 1 September 2026. Duration: 1 year 4 months. Hours may alter due to college training times.
* Holiday entitlement: Generous holiday entitlement of 270 hours per year (inclusive of Bank Holidays) plus every other Friday off.
* Additional benefits: Access to employee discounts portal, Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
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