Level 4 Manufacturing Quality Apprentice

Role Overview

This role focuses on ensuring that components meet required safety, performance, and regulatory standards alongside ensuring that production processes follow strict quality procedures ensuring reliability, customer satisfaction, and compliance with industry standards.

Work Experience

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

Daily Responsibilities

• Carry out planned inspections and quality checks on parts and assemblies, ensuring compliance with specifications and standards.
• Accurately record, analyze, and report quality data to support manufacturing performance and decision-making.
• Support and contribute to structured investigations into quality issues, including root cause analysis and the identification of corrective and preventative actions.
• Apply quality control procedures and documentation to ensure consistent product quality and regulatory compliance.
• Support internal and external audits, contributing evidence, actions, and follow-up where required.
• Work closely with production teams to maintain, monitor, and improve quality standards within manufacturing processes.
• Use manufacturing and quality data to support continuous improvement activities and reduce defects and variation.

Work Location

6 GRAZEBROOK INDUSTRIAL PARK
PEARTREE LANE
DUDLEY
DY2 0XW

Training Details

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

Training Provider

DUDLEY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY

Training Course

Engineering manufacturing technician (level 4)

Course Contents

• Read and extract relevant engineering and manufacturing related data and information (such as workplans or project plans, schedules, drawings, specifications, production data, quality reports, costing data, statistical information) drawing accurate conclusions and making informed decisions.
• Use project management tools, such as Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats (SWOT), stakeholder matrices, risk mapping, radar chart, and summary risk profiles.
• Use problem solving tools such as Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Process Failure Modes Effects Analysis (PFMEA), Fishbone, Practical Problem Solving (PPS), and Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP).
• Analyse and interpret data and information in order to generate manufacturing engineering documentation such as Parts Per Million (PPM) quality adherence, cost analysis, and test data.
• Communicate using the appropriate method for the audience such as, formal and informal presentations, written reports, verbal, electronic, social media, and incorporating relevant and appropriate data or metrics.
• Use the approved process and quality compliance procedure to create or amend engineering or manufacturing documentation.
• Use lean tools and techniques, such as Six Sigma, 8 Wastes, Workplace organization such as 5S's (sort, set in order, shine, standardize, and sustain), Kaizen, and Poka-Yoke (Error proofing).
• Apply documentation control processes and procedures such as format, location, access, authorization.
• Use financial planning, recording, and review processes and documentation such as departmental budgets, estimating, cost control, cost forecasting, and investment appraisal.
• Use computer-based software systems or packages such as Computer Aided Design (CAD), Data Analytics, and Databases.