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Trainee Technical Authority - Product Design and Quality
Company: Ammo & Company Ltd
Location: Birmingham
Salary: £28,000
Key Requirement: You must be within a 40-minute commute of the Birmingham site or willing to relocate.
Start Date: Immediate
Role Purpose
To help ensure that products supplied by Ammo & Company meet the applicable customer specification, approved Standard Pattern, workmanship sample, and agreed quality requirements. The role is intended for a design-qualified person whose curiosity and strong willingness to learn will help them build knowledge across our varied products, materials, and manufacturing methods. They will develop technical judgement through supervised inspections, accurate records, and structured training. This is a trainee role; independent technical approval is not part of the initial appointment.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain an organised specification library, including current specifications, drawings, revisions, approved samples, and associated correspondence.
- Receive, identify, log, store, and track Standard Patterns, customer workmanship samples, supplier samples, and production reference samples.
- Read specifications and compare products with approved references; record measurements, construction, materials, finish, and any discrepancies in a consistent manner.
- Carry out goods inward inspections to agreed sampling plans and procedures and maintain clear inspection records.
- Review supplier pre-shipment inspection records for completeness and apparent discrepancies; escalate concerns before goods are accepted or released.
- Coordinate testing: identify requirements, prepare submissions, track laboratories and results, and report findings to the manager responsible.
- Raise nonconformance reports with factual evidence, photographs, and references to the applicable requirement; follow actions through to closure under supervision.
- Help develop and improve practical inspection checklists, sample controls, and technical procedures with purchasing, production, and product specialists.
- Communicate findings clearly and professionally to colleagues and suppliers, including when a quality concern needs to be challenged or escalated.
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Authority and Supervision
The postholder may inspect, document, recommend, and escalate. They must not independently approve a new specification, design or material change, customer concession, departure from an approved Standard Pattern, or release of disputed products. Those decisions remain with the designated authorised manager and, where the contract requires it, the customer. Any later delegated authority must follow training, assessment, and written appointment.
Development of the Role
Responsibilities will be introduced in stages. Initial work will focus on the specification and sample registers, supervised inspection, and accurate reporting. With demonstrated competence, the postholder may take greater ownership of testing coordination, supplier records, goods inward inspections, and procedure development. Training objectives and sign-off limits will be reviewed regularly by the line manager.
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Person Specification
Essential
- You must have the Full Unrestricted Right to Work in the UK.
- Diploma in design or a closely related design discipline, with the ability to apply design thinking to physical products.
- Careful, objective, and methodical approach, with strong attention to detail and integrity.
- Curiosity about unfamiliar products and a strong willingness to keep learning so the business can support clients and suppliers with sound technical information.
- Able to read and interpret written specifications, drawings, or other technical documents, and to identify discrepancies.
- Comfortable using measurements, technical data, records, and structured procedures.
- Clear written and verbal communication, including the confidence to report unwelcome findings.
- Able to work constructively in a small team while making evidence-based recommendations.
- Organised, reliable, and willing to learn across varied product categories.
Desirable
- Practical experience in textiles, product design, engineering, manufacturing, quality assurance, or a related technical field.
- Interest in military, ceremonial, or uniform products, materials, and methods of manufacture.
- Experience with inspection records, sample control, supplier quality, or product testing.
Measures of Success
Accurate and accessible technical records; timely inspection and reporting; clear escalation of discrepancies; reliable tracking of samples and tests; and steady progress against agreed training and competence objectives.
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