Join our Quality team as a Junior Quality Engineer Apprentice

Developing the skills to inspect components, analyse quality data, investigate non-conformances and support continuous improvement. Working with engineering, production and suppliers, you will help ensure products meet the highest quality standards.

Purpose of the role and key objectives:

• Support the QEHS Manager for delivering all aspects of the Quality Assurance function
• Work in a team environment with suppliers and Naim production to develop and implement best practices that emphasise defect prevention, reduction in variation and waste and provide for continuous improvements in meeting all Product requirements
• Collect root cause analysis data and provide corrective feedback to prevent line stops due to supply issues. Responsible for ensuring that the products produced meet quality standards required to minimise quality costs and maximise customer satisfaction, whilst ensuring that procedures and processes are adhered to

Main duties and responsibilities:

• Incoming inspection of key cosmetic and functional components to a high level of detail and accuracy
• Recording inspection results and analysing data to drive improvement activities
• Assist with first off sample approvals and control
• Manage material review board for non-conforming parts
• Work with Engineering (Design and Manufacturing Engineers) teams to define process parameters and criteria to ensure supplier process capability is effective to meet product and process requirements
• Resolve non-conformance issues with supplied materials and follow up with suppliers for completion of corrective actions
• Develop standards and requirements for purchased components
• Support new product launches, ensuring compliance with established standards
• Coordinate with purchasing department to provide data to monitor supplier performance, generating reports where appropriate and administering corrective actions as necessary
• Internal auditing of processes for quality improvement activities and monitoring

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

CSR SCIENTIFIC TRAINING LIMITED

Quality practitioner (level 4)

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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.