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Quality Apprentice
Job Title:
Quality Apprentice
Reports to:
Quality Manager
Department:
Quality
Responsible for:
N/A
About the company:
Crosby Composites (established in 1982) is the number one composite manufacturer in the UK, excelling in the design and manufacture of high-quality carbon fibre parts. Our global customers cover Formula 1, motorsport but primarily automotive, making components and bodywork for some of the most prestigious and outrageous hyper cars in the world. Our services in supporting this include conceptual design, bespoke tolling and manufacturing (with inhouse state of the art spray painting, kit cutting and multiple large autoclaves).
About our employees:
As a member of the Crosby Composites team, we expect all our employees to:
* Adhere to all Crosby Composites policies and procedures
* Represent the Company in a professional manner at all times
* Ensure workplace safety is practiced at all times
* Maintain a clean and safe working environment
Core Values:
Teamwork – At the heart of everything we do
Reliability – Honesty and dependability in our everyday business
Accountability – It up to me and its up to us, we all take responsibility for our actions
Continuous Improvements – Always striving to improve all that we do
Exceeding Expectations – Never excepting the minimum standard
Driving Safety First – Looking out for ourselves and each other
Apprenticeship Scheme
Joining our apprenticeship scheme will give you a fantastic opportunity to develop your skills and experience within our manufacturing team. We are committed to ensuring your professional success and our scheme will give you the opportunity to develop new work placed skills.
As an apprentice, you will fully commit to the 20% off-the-job training requirements of the role, alongside your normal day to day job. This is managed through the tutor providing fortnightly in person theory training.
You will have the opportunity to be apart of a high performing team and to develop the behaviours, knowledge and professional skills to be a part of that team. As part of the apprenticeship programme, you will commit to this professional development plan at the start.
Quality Apprenticeship - Job Description
Learning how to apply the customer standard to the manufactured product with the various measurement tools available within the business and support the development of the Inspection process to help the team to make the right decisions.
This role is part of an apprenticeship scheme which will lead to a qualification or company standard approval process.
You will learn to work to strict safety and quality requirements, help to achieve daily requirements in terms of quality and understand what is the Customer expectation.
Key Responsibilities (what you will learn):
* Link between Quality department and Inspection department
* Support in creating the Inspection criteria
* Maintain the Quality standards to achieve our customer expectations
* Core tools development – APQP/PPAP/MSA/PFMEA
* Effective team player and communicator.
* Good verbal communication and listening skills.
* Communicate all non-conformances to appropriate personnel.
* Record all non-conformances on internal quality management database.
* Ensure that the inspection department is compliant with the quality management system and company procedures.
* High proportion of inspection will be focussing on the cosmetic appearance of the panels.
* Ensure all measuring equipment is kept in good working order and calibrated accordingly.
* Maintain a clean and tidy working environment.
* Validate Inspection reports on 1st off and development parts and ensure these follow the Customer given GD&T strategy
Expected Skills and Attributes:
* Have good attention to detail.
* Have a basic understanding of tools.
* Be team player.
* Have a positive attitude.
* Be able to follow written and verbal instructions.
* Be practical and enjoy practical working.
* Have a passion for Formula 1 and Automotive.